DID YOU KNOW MANY

FAMOUS AUTHORS CAME FROM PENNSYLVANIA?

Visit the site listed below. There you can view a county map of Pennsylvania. Move your mouse around the find out about different counties. Find out the county’s name, where its county seat is and about a famous author from that county. Use the information to complete the table below.

http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/pamap.html

City	County	County Seat	Famous Person
York
Greensburg
Gettysburg
Greenville
Harrisburg
Easton
Carlisle
Clearfield
Lancaster

Put a star beside the city if it is in a county the borders York County.

List 5 major cities in Pennsylvania.

How could you tell that they were major cities?

What is one thing you were surprised to learn? It can be from a county that I asked you to look at or one you looked at on your own. Remember it has to be something that you did not know until today!