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... that Oil Creek State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial oil well?
... that Robert Coleman, owner of several iron furnaces, was Pennsylvania's first millionaire?
... that Cornwall Iron Furnace in Pennsylvania is the only intact charcoal-burning iron blast furnace on its original plantation in the Western Hemisphere?
... that Peter Böhler and other Moravian followers founded the towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania?
... that Graeme Park is the only surviving residence of a colonial era Governor of Pennsylvania?

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