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Aaronsburg Story

AccuWeather

Advent Church

Ag Hill

Agriculture

Alice Fuchs

All-American Rathskeller

Allegheny Front Trail

Allen Street Gates

Alpha Fire Company

Altman, Harold

American Philatelic Society

Anderson, Dorothy "Dot"

Arboretum at Penn State

Ardell, John R.

Armory

Arnelle, Jesse

Ashenfelter, Horace

Atherton, George W.

Bald Eagle State Park

Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation Co.

Barbershop Boycott

Bear Meadows

Beaver Stadium

Beaver, James A.

Bellefonte Academy

Bellefonte Airmail Fields

Bellefonte Art Museum

Bellefonte Central Railroad

Bellefonte Victorian Christmas

Benner, Philip

Big Spring

Biggers, John T.

Black Moshannon State Park

Black Soldiers

Blue Band

Boal Mansion

Boalsburg

Boalsburg Heritage Museum

Boogersburg School

Brill, Julia

Brockerhoff House

Brockerhoff Mill

Bunton, Mildred Settle

Bush House

Calorimeter

Camelot

Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

Centre County Courthouse

Centre County Library

Centre Daily Times

Centre Furnace

Centre Furnace Mansion

Civil War

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ClearWater Conservancy

Cold Stream Dam

Cole, Robert

College Heights

College Heights Service Station

Colyer Lake

Creamery

Curtin, Andrew G.

Curtin, Roland

Daily Collegian

David House

Duffy’s Tavern

Eagle Ironworks

Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum

Edith Schad

Egg Hill Church

Eisenhower Auditorium

Eisenhower, Milton

Emmanuel Union Church

Evangelical Churches

Ewell, Norwood H. "Barney"

Faculty Cottages

Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania

First Night State College

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Fisher, Rob

Fisherman's Paradise

Foxdale Village

Gamble Mill

Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel

Glennland Building

Grange Encampment and Fair

Gregg, Andrew

Grilled Stickies

Hallock, Phil

Harmony Forge

Harris, Franco

Hastings, Daniel

Hetzel Union Building

Hetzel, Ralph Dorn

Homophiles of Penn State

Hotel State College

Interstate 80

Iron Production

Irvin, James

Jail Hill

Junior Drum and Bugle Corps

Kofman, Nadine

Land-Grant Frescoes

Lemont

Levy, Aaron

Lewis, Davey

Limestone

Lincoln Hall

Little German Band

Logging Industry

Lutz, Sherman

Mann Axe

McCoy's Dam

Meek, Peter

Memorial Field

Meyer Dairy

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Mid-State Regional Airport

Militia Companies

Millbrook Marsh Nature Center

Millheim

Morrill Land-Grant College Act

Moshannon State Forest

Mount Nittany

Movie Theaters

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Neff Round Barn

Neyhart, Amos

Nittany Lion

Nittany Lion Inn

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Nittany Valley Symphony

Old Iron Kettle

Old Main

Palmer Museum of Art

Paterno, Joe

Pattee and Paterno Libraries

Pattee, Fred Lewis

Patton, John

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Penn's Cave

Penn's Creek

Pennsylvania Furnace

Pennsylvania Match Company

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Portland, Rene

Potter, James

Potter-Allison Farm

Price, Thelma

Pugh, Evan

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Reynolds Mansion

Rhone, Leonard

Roopsburg Brewery

Rothrock State Forest

Rowland Theatre

Sayers, Foster

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Scotia Barrens

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Sparks, Edwin E.

Spring Creek Canyon

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State College Spikes

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State Correctional Institution-Rockview

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Talleyrand Park

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Thompson, Hilda

Thompson, Moses

Titan Metal

Triplett, Wally

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Unionville

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Waller, Calvin

Ward, John M.

Waring, William G.

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Willard, Mary

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