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  2. Biddle family - Wikipedia

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    Biddle family. The Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681. Quakers, they had emigrated from England in part to escape religious persecution.

  3. Martin Farm Complex - Wikipedia

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    Martin Farm Complex. /  42.93056°N 77.57667°W  / 42.93056; -77.57667. Martin Farm Complex is a historic home and farm complex located at Lima in Livingston County, New York. The complex consists of a gentleman farmer's Italian villa farmhouse along with a full complement of contributing agricultural outbuildings.

  4. Agriculture in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    A farmstead in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.. Agriculture is a major industry in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the most recent United States Census of Agriculture conducted in 2017, there were 53,157 farms in Pennsylvania, covering an area of 7,278,668 acres (2,945,572 hectares) with an average size of 137 acres (55 hectares) per farm.

  5. Historic Strawberry Mansion - Wikipedia

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    Strawberry Mansion. /  39.99444°N 75.19056°W  / 39.99444; -75.19056. Historic Strawberry Mansion is a summer home in East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Built between 1783 and 1789 by Judge William Lewis, it was originally named Summerville. [1]

  6. Battles of Saratoga - Wikipedia

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    Background Main article: Saratoga campaign The American Revolutionary War was approaching the two-year point, and the British changed their plans. They decided to split the Thirteen Colonies and isolate New England from what they believed to be the more Loyalist middle and southern colonies. The British command devised a plan to divide the colonies with a three-way pincer movement in 1777. The ...

  7. Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - Wikipedia

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    The plaque was re-located in 1999 to the garden of Hostelling International New York. Mrs. Goodman wanted the plaque to be in a place visited by young people. [citation needed] A stained glass window depicting the three was placed in Sage Chapel at Cornell University in 1991. Schwerner was a Cornell graduate, as were Goodman's parents.

  8. Mount Airy, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    The average household size was 2.3. Of Mount Airy's residents, 19.5% were under the age of 18 and 19% were 65 years and over. The median age was 42 years. 54.4% of residents were female. 45.6% of residents were male. The median household income was $72,685 and the per capita income was $48,997.

  9. History of the Oakland Athletics - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun as a charter member franchise in the new American League in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 for 13 seasons and then to the San Francisco Bay in Oakland, California, in 1968.