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Go right to the source - the Pennsylvania Department of General Services publishes the State Manual that includes a chapter on Pennsylvania history. The latest manual is available online for free.

To see all the chapters in the PA Manual Volume 117 go here:

http://www.dgs.state.pa.us/pamanual/cwp/view.asp?a...

To view just the History chapter in PDF format (make sure you have Adobe Reader already installed) use this link:

http://www.dgs.state.pa.us/pamanual/lib/pamanual/v...

For general information and background on the manual itself (a good thing to have in case you need to cite it for your project) see this page:

http://www.dgs.state.pa.us/pamanual/site/default.a...

I hope this helps. Good luck with your project.

You can find some interesting and unique PA history at the link below.

Here is a site that gives alot of information regarding city data (for all cities in Pa) this link is to their page for Wilkes-Barre but this page links to all the others. W-B by the way gives Pa alot of history (as well as the upper NE Pa because of the Coal Mining era)

http://www.city-data.com/city/Wilkes-Barre-Pennsyl...

Also upper NE Pa their were NE Native American Indians...alot of Cities and towns are named from Indian words and names

http://www.luzernecountyhistory.com/Museum.htm

Philly

http://www.city-data.com/city/Philadelphia-Pennsyl...

Pittsburg

http://www.city-data.com/city/Pittsburgh-Pennsylva...

Harrisburg

http://www.city-data.com/city/Harrisburg-Pennsylva...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania