South Central Pennsylvania

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We are blessed with an incredible number of sites and places connected to early American History.
Philadelphia and Valley Forge are only 80 miles east, Gettysburg is 30 miles west.  Ft McHenry is 45 miles south and DC another 45 miles South.

I live just two miles from the site of Cresap's War. (1730's)  40 miles south of Girty's Notch. I am six miles from what was the first Capital of the US, York PA, Where Lafayette quelled the gathering mutiny against Washington.  Just 80 miles NE, is the area where the early classical Pennsylvania long rifles were developed and built. 70 miles SW, is Ft. Frederick, one of the last F&I forts in the midAtlantic.  50 miles From the Antietam battlefield.  Fulton's steam boat was born just 15 miles away.  And about the same distance from the Pequea creek where many major Gun manufacturers operated.  Including Leman. 

Just 20 miles South is the Mason and Dixon line, surveyed to settle a boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland.  Some of the English Granite boundaries markers are still standing.   I live just 7 miles South of Columbia PA, which had hoped to be the Nation's permanent Capital.  The bridge connecting it to the west shore of the Susquehanna was burned by the authorities to keep the rebels from getting over to Lancaster County.