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By Jean-Paul Benowitz

Settled in 1708 and integrated as a borough in 1827, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, is found 5 miles from the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, 20 miles from either the county seat Lancaster urban, to the east, and Harrisburg, the country capital, to the west. With its outdated Peter's street, Elizabethtown performed an enormous function within the westward growth of the state through the 18th and nineteenth centuries. development at the first railroad all started in 1834, and Elizabethtown continues to be a strategic cease at the Amtrak Keystone line among Harrisburg and Philadelphia. in addition to its proximity to Hershey, Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown has been domestic to a Mars, Inc., confectionery plant when you consider that 1970 (formerly Klein's Chocolate corporation, integrated in 1914). Elizabethtown collage was once based in 1899, and the Masonic Village in 1910. The Pennsylvania country clinic for Crippled teenagers opened in 1929, later turning into the Pennsylvania division of Corrections education Academy in 1991.

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