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Waterfall Attractions In Allenwood

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Purity Candy

Clyde Peeling's Reptiland

Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park

Corning Museum of Glass

Leonard Harrison State Park

Ricketts Glen State Park

Indian Echo Caverns

Knoebels Amusement Resort

The United States Penitentiary, Allenwood is a high-security United States federal prison in Pennsylvania. It is part of the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. FCC Allenwood is located on US Route 15 in White Deer, PA, approximately halfway between the cities of Williamsport and Lewisburg and approximately 75 miles north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the state capital.
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Waterfall Attractions In Allenwood

1. Ricketts Glen State Park Benton Pennsylvania
Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,050 acres in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny Front escarpment from the Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians. The park is near the borough of Benton on Pennsylvania Route 118 and Pennsylvania Route 487, and is in five townships: Sugarloaf in Columbia County, Fairmount and Ross in Luzerne County, and Colley and Davidson in Sullivan County. Ricketts Glen's land was once home to Native Americans. From 1822 to 1827, a turnpike was built along the course of PA 487 in what is now the park, where two squatters harvested cher...
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PA Welcome Center on Route 15South

I like this welcome area on Route 15 South in Pennsylvania. I went there soon after it opened in 2003 and have visited it maybe thrice since. It's actually a nice place to spend time, spacious inside with rocking chairs and of course plenty of info along with knowledgeable staffers on hand. Outside is where you see these scenic views.
More photos of the rest area scenery from 2008 and 2003

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Pine Knot Cemetery - Will Government Take Alvira's Cemetery??

There are only 4 historic cemeteries left of the town of Alvira. 3 are accessible to the public. The 4th one is inside the prison fence. The government wants to expand the neighboring prison which would place the cemeteries inside the prison fence, making it inaccessible to the public.
The public is outraged. They are against this. They want to have access to their ancestors grave sites.
The town of Alvira was taken over by eminent domain early in WWII to manufacture and store TNT. 11 months later, the government realized they over-estimated the need for that much TNT and the site was abandoned......

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