50 Years of 50 States: Pennsylvania

Nickname: Keystone State
Date Ratified: December 12, 1787 (2nd)
Capital: Harrisburg

Map of Pennsylvania

• The Philadelphia Zoo was the first zoo in the United States.
• The first World Series ever played was between the Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1903.
• Pennsylvania is home to the site of the only surrender of George Washington’s military career. As a young officer in the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity to the French in 1754.
• Philadelphia was the first capital of what would become the United States. It was the capital for the First Continental Congress, and also under the Articles of Confederation.
• In 1999, Pennsylvania became the first state to put a website address on their vehicle license plates.
• Benjamin Franklin founded the first subscription library in the U.S., the Library Company of Philadelphia, in 1731.
• The first U.S. mint was opened in Philadelphia in 1792.
• The state flag of Pennsylvania was first authorized in 1799. In 1907, the flag’s colors were standardized to match the blue on the American flag. In 2007, a bill was introduced to add the state’s name to the flag, but it has not passed the Legislature.

Flag of Pennsylvania

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