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Founder of Little League Baseball and Commissioner through 1955. Stotz developed the Little League idea in 1938; in the next year three teams played 24 games. It was at this site that Stotz established field distances for the pre-teenage players. The first 12 Little League World Series were held on this field, 1947-1958, and during these years the number of teams grew from 60 to thousands in many nations.
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Capt. John Brady
The famed Indian fighter and hero of the colonial wars and the Revolution was killed in ambush by Indians near here April 11, 1779.
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Pennsylvania's first Grange, officially organized March 4, 1871, two and a half years before organization of the Pennsylvania State...
Fort Antes
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Built 1776 by Col. Henry Antes.
Bowman Field
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Built 1926. Long noted as Pennsylvania's oldest operating minor league baseball park and the nation's second oldest.
Civilian Conservation Corps
In March 1933, the federal government created the CCC to combat the Great Depression.
