10 Perfect Pennsylvania Facts

10 Perfect Pennsylvania Facts

1. Betsy Ross made the first American flag in Philadelphia in 1776.

2. The Rockville Bridge in Harrisburg is the longest stone arch railroad bridge in the world.

3. Pittsburgh has more public staircases than any other city in the United States. The city has 800 sets of steps with over 45,000 individual steps. If stacked on top of each other, they would be over 26,000 feet high.

4. The official name of Pennsylvania is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

5. The Hershey Company is located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and is known as the "sweetest place on earth." Eighty million Hershey kisses are made each day.

5. Pennsylvania produces more mushrooms than any other state.

6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the capital of the United States six separate times.

7. The first daily newspaper in the United States was published on September 21, 1784 in Philadelphia.

8. Pennsylvania means "Penn's woods." William Penn named the state for his father, Admiral Sir William Penn.

9. The first zoo in the United States opened in Philadelphia in1874.

10. Pennsylvania's steel and other manufacturing industries triggered the American Industrial Revolution and built much of the early infrastructure of the UnitedStates.