Thank you, Pennsylvania!
Enjoy the many splendors of Pennsylvania!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hershey Park Hershey, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's beautiful countryside
Amish country
Single Distlefink The Distlefink was considered a good luck symbol. The bird portrayed is a goldfinch which eats thistle. The bird also uses thistle as nesting material and was known as a thistlefinch or Distelfink as called by early Pennsylvania settlers. Pennsylvania Germans painted decorations such as the Single Distlefink shown above on furniture, household items and barns.
Double Distlefink: for an extra measure of good fortune. The Distlefink was considered a good luck symbol. The Trinity tulips stand for faith and the ocean waves portrayed in the scalloped border is a symbolic wish for all to have smooth sailing throughout life.
Items were commonly decorated with colorful designs by German Lutheran and Reformed settlers of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Capitol Building Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennyslvania
The Boone Homestead Near Reading, Pennsylvania Originally built as one room log cabin in 1730 Daniel Boone was born in the log cabin in 1734
The Boone Farm
Daniel Boone's parents first settled the site in 1730 and the region was populated by many diverse people-- English, Welsh, Scots-Irish, Germans, Swedes, Huguenots and Lenape Indians. Daniel was born here in 1734 and spent his first 16 years here before his family migrated to North Carolina.
The Boone House Fireplace for cooking
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