Centre+County

** __Centre County__ By: Maria Bard **

**Centre County is one of the biggest agricultural counties in Pennsylvania. It was created on February 13th, 1800. The county was named for, of course, its geopraphical setting in the state. (Which is in the middle) Most of Centre County is farmland and is a very argricutural region of Pennsylvania. An example of this is Centre Counties first state college, Penn State University. Before it was a college it was all farmland and still some remains there today.

Question : What is the name of the college in the farmlands in Centre County ?

Captain James Potter was the first white man to come in this area, supposedly to plan a defense through the mountains south of the Susquehanna river. He came to or near the place where Bellefonte now stands in the year 1759. The first settler to emigrate to this area was Andrew Boggs, who settled upon the Joseph Poultney warranty in 1769, near the junction of Spring and Bald Eagle creeks. Centre County's first official surveys are recorded as the "Manor of Succoth," surveyed by William Maclay September 22, 1776, and the "Manor of Nottingham" some days later. Some earlier surveys known as the "Officers Surveys" are recorded as being made in 1769, Beech Creek to Bald Eagles' Nest or know known as Milesburg.

As these forges of early days, and the production of limestone was growing in Bellefonte, so the coal mining and brick manufacturing prevailed in the mountain area, on the plateau known as "Moshannon" coal, which is now rapidly being exhausted. Fire clay, from which bricks are made,from Sandy Ridge on the extreme west, to Snow Shoe and Clarence on the northern border.**



  As most of us know, Penn State was orginated from Centre County. The school is one of the biggest in the nation from there football team and the great education. It was founded in 1855 and is a small town campus that is 6,388 arce campus. It is located on farmland. James Irvin of Bellefonte was the founder of this campus that started with just 200 arces. It also started off as a common-wealth from the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society.The colleges mascot is the nittany lion, also. From that moment on Penn State kept growing and growing.

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 answer to question - PSU