Historic Sites in Upstate PA 3
Battlefields, historic houses, forts, mining towns, railroad landmarks and lighthouses.
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Steamtown National Historic Site
A historic rail yard where steam locomotives fill a working roundhouse, with museums of railroading and a Union Pacific Big Boy among the giants on display.
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Eckley Miners' Village
A 19th-century anthracite company town of miners' houses and churches, with a coal breaker built for the 1970 film The Molly Maguires, telling the story of mining families.
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French Azilum
On a quiet bend of the Susquehanna, the site of a 1790s refuge built for French exiles fleeing revolution, with the 1836 LaPorte House and a museum cabin.
