Laurel Hill State Park
Inscription
One of five Recreational Demonstration Areas created in Pa. by the National Park Service during the Great Depression to improve land use. Between 1935 and 1941, workers from the CCC and WPA New Deal programs built roads, buildings, and sites here to support many types of recreation. Laurel Hill is the most intact RDA in Pa.
, retaining examples of all of its original property types. The park continues its legacy of conservation begun in 1935.
Location
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Adam Schneider
Somerset, PA
Laid out the north half of the settlement renamed Somerset in 1795.
John Christian Frederick Heyer (1793-1873)
Friedens, PA
In 1842 Father Heyer became the first American Lutheran missionary to India, establishing schools and churches and ministering to women...
Alan Freed (1921-1965)
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Disc jockey who coined the term "Rock & Roll" in the early 1950s.
Toll House
One of the six original toll houses on the Cumberland or National Road is on the hill opposite.
Ankeny Square
Somerset, PA
Set aside for burial ground and place of worship on the original plat of Milfordstown by Ulrich Bruner, 1787, and by Peter Ankeny in 1789...