Image Alleghenyplateaumap.png right thumb 300px Map of the Alleghenyplateau. The gray line divides the glaciated northern and unglaciated southern sections of the plateau. The AlleghenyPlateau is a large dissected plateau area in western and central New York , northern and western Pennsylvania , northern and western West Virginia , and eastern Ohio . It is divided into the unglaciated AlleghenyPlateau and the glaciated AlleghenyPlateau . The plateau extends southward into western West Virginia , eastern Kentucky and Tennessee where it is instead called the Cumberland Plateau . The plateau terminates in the east at the Allegheny Mountains , which are the highest ridges just west of the Allegheny ... fault 0112.jpg 300px left thumb Major fault at the dividing line between the AlleghenyPlateau ... AlleghenyPlateau, relief may only reach one hundred feet or less. In the unglaciated AlleghenyPlateau in southeastern Ohio and westernmost West Virginia, relief is typically in the range of two ... Photographs of the AlleghenyPlateau and the Allegheny River watershed region coord missing .... The plateau is bordered on the west by glacial till plains in the north, generally north of the Ohio ... 900 to 1500 ft m . By the Allegheny Front, however, elevations may reach well over convert 4000 ft , with relief of up to convert 2000 ft . One of the more notable geologic areas within the AlleghenyPlateau is the Hocking Hills region of southeast Ohio . Geology and physiography Image Canisteo ... Pinnacle State Park . Wisconsin glaciation Glaciation in this area of the plateau removed the sharp relief that is seen in unglaciated areas of the plateau. The line of the distant peaks approximates the level of a peneplain that was uplifted to form the plateau. The AlleghenyPlateau is a Physiographic regions of the world physiographic section of the larger Appalachian Plateau province, which ... es Meseta de Allegheny hu Allegheny plat ja ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Unglaciated AlleghenyPlateau is located in an arc around southeastern Ohio into western Pennsylvania and West Virginia . This area is a dissected plateau , characterized by sandstone , shale , and many coal seams. This is the part of the AlleghenyPlateau that lies outside the continental glaciation of the ice age s. One of the most spectacular and scenic areas in this region is located in southeast Ohio, and is known as the Hocking Hills region. This area, similar to but smaller than the Red River Gorge in the Cumberland Plateau in Kentucky , features cliff s, rock shelter s and waterfall s. The Ohio River roughly bisects the Unglaciated AlleghenyPlateau in generally a north northeast to south southwest direction. Other significant rivers in the plateau include the Muskingum River and Tuscarawas River in Ohio, the Youghiogheny River and Allegheny River in Pennsylvania, and the Monongahela River and Kanawha River in West Virginia. The Kanawha River pronounced kuh NAW by locals is formed by the confluence of the New River Kanawha River New River and the Gauley River . All three rivers are known for their spectacular deep gorges. The largest city in the Unglaciated AlleghenyPlateau is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . Coord missing Ohio Coord missing Ohio Category Regions of Ohio Category Landforms of Ohio Category Landforms of Pennsylvania Category Landforms of West Virginia Category Plateaus of the United States Ohio geo stub Pennsylvania geo stub WestVirginia geo stub ... more details
Image Canisteo valley 1453.JPG 300px right thumb Canisteo River Valley from Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course Pinnacle State Park . Wisconsin glaciation Glaciation in this area of the plateau removed the sharp relief that is seen in unglaciated areas of the plateau. The line of the distant peaks approximates the level of a peneplain that was uplifted to form the plateau. The Glaciated Allegheny Plateau is that portion of the Allegheny Plateau that lies within the area covered by the last glaciation . As a result, this area of the Allegheny Plateau has lower relief and more gentle slopes than the relatively rugged Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau . In general, the glaciated lies to the north and west of the unglaciated, and forms an arc in northeastern to southeastern Ohio lying between the Glacial till plains Ohio glacial till plains and the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau. The Glaciated Allegheny Plateau extends into a belt of southern New York New York state and the central Susquehanna River basin. A small area of the Allegheny Plateau was glaciated during the Last glacial period Wisconsin Stage , the late Illinoian stage Illinoian Stage , and Pre Illinoian B and G glaciations of the Pre Illinoian Pre Illinoian Stage . ref name RichmondOther1 Richmond, G.M. and D.S. Fullerton, 1986, Summation of Quaternary glaciations in the United States of America , Quaternary Science Reviews. vol. 5, pp. 183 196. ref This area &ndash only a few hundred square kilometers owing to the blockage the steep relief of the mountains provides at the edge of the ice sheet &ndash contains only old drift now buried by long periods of soil development. The major cities on the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau are Akron, Ohio Akron and Youngstown, Ohio Youngstown . References reflist External links Fleeger, G., nd, http www.dcnr.state.pa.us topogeo field glacial.aspx Glacial geology of Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resource ... more details
Allegheny , Alleghany , or Allegany may refer to tocright Geologic and geographic features Allegheny River , in Pennsylvania and New York Allegheny Mountains , part of the Appalachian Mountain Range in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia see List of mountains of the Alleghenies Allegheny Mountain Pennsylvania , major mountain ridge in the northern part of the Allegheny Mountains Little Allegheny Mountain , in Pennsylvania and Maryland Allegheny Mountain West Virginia Virginia , major mountain ridge in the southern part of the Allegheny Mountains Back Allegheny Mountain , in West Virginia AlleghenyPlateau , which terminates in the east at the Allegheny Mountains Allegheny Front , the escarpment delineating the eastern edge of the AlleghenyPlateau and Mountains, separating them from the lower Ridge and Valley Appalachians Allegheny Formation , a mapped bedrock unit of West ... County, North Carolina Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Alleghany County, Virginia Communities ... York Allegany village , New York Allegany, Oregon , unincorporated community Allegheny, Pennsylvania , a city annexed by the city of Pittsburgh in 1907 Allegheny Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Protected areas Allegheny National Forest , Pennsylvania Allegheny National Recreation Area , Pennsylvania Allegheny Wildlife Management Area , in Mineral County, West Virginia Public works Allegheny Mountain Tunnel , a vehicular tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Allegheny Reservoir , a reservoir on the Allegheny River Allegheny River Tunnel , a light rail tunnel under the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh Trails Allegheny Trail , a hiking trail in West Virginia Great Allegheny Passage including parts in Maryland and Pennsylvania Allegheny Highlands ... more details
for other meanings Plateau disambiguation Refimprove date June 2010 Image IslandInTheSky.JPG thumb Island ... In geology and earth science , a plateau , also called a high plain or tableland , is an area ... eroded plateau is called a dissected plateau . A volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic ... also be built up by lava spreading outwards from cracks and weak areas in the crust, an example of such a plateau is the Columbia Plateau in the northwestern United States of America . Plateaus can also ... in the world, these plateaus are bordered by mountains. The Tibetan plateau is one such plateau. Piedmont ... of the world The largest and highest plateau in the world is the Tibetan Plateau , called the roof ... and Eurasian Plate Eurasian tectonic plate s. In all the Tibetan plateau covers an area of some ... of this plateau is such that it is enough to reverse the Hadley cell Hadley cell convection cycles and to drive ... is located in a high plateau, over convert 8600 ft m abbr on high The second largest current plateau in the world is the Antarctic Plateau , which covers most of the central part of Antarctica ... would become land above sea level. The third largest plateau in the world is probably the one in South America that lies in the middle of the Andes Mountains . This Altiplano Andean Plateau covers ... Chile and northern Argentina . Major plateaus of North America In North America , the largest plateau is the Colorado Plateau covering an area of about convert 337000 km2 sqmi abbr off in Colorado , Utah ... title Colorado Plateau Physiographic Province work Contract Report publisher Defense Advanced Research ... ifsar lafinal08 01 five 5.1.5 frame.htm accessdate 2007 12 25 ref The Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona ... below the level of the North Rim. The southern edge of the plateau in northern Arizona is called ... . Because of the snowy plateau and the San Francisco Mountains to its north, the Mogollian Rim area ... plateau for submarine or undersea plateaux Altiplano Mesa Potrero Tuya Butte Atherton Tableland ... more details
Infobox Album Name Into the Plateau Type Album Artist Delorean band Delorean Cover Alt Released July 28, 2006 Recorded Genre Alternative dance , Balearic beat Length Label BCore Producer Delorean Reviews Last album Metropolitan Death EP br 2005 This album Into the Plateau br 2006 Next album Transatlantic KK br 2007 Into the Plateau is the second studio album by Spanish alternative dance band Delorean band Delorean , released in July 2006 by BCore. Track listing Tracklist title1 Complexity Reducer title2 Soon title3 Metropolitan Death 3 title4 No Name title5 As Time Breaks Off title6 Open title7 Apocalypse Night Fight title8 Shibuya Crossing References Reflist Category 2006 albums ... more details
Allegheny Township may refer to Allegany Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania Allegheny Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania geodis ... more details
York and Pennsylvania . ref name GNIS1 Cite gnis id 1209386 name Allegheny River accessdate 2010 05 13 ref It drains a rural dissected plateau of convert 11580 sqmi km2 in the northern AlleghenyPlateau ...For other uses of AlleghenyAllegheny disambiguation Infobox river river name Allegheny River image name Freeport bridge.jpg caption The Allegheny River, looking upstream at Freeport, Pennsylvania Freeport ... USGS Data Report 2009 ref watershed convert 11580 sqmi km2 abbr on The Allegheny River ... States . The Allegheny River joins with the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River at the Point State ... . The Allegheny River is, by volume, the main headstream of the Ohio River, and therefore, the entire ... left 200px The Allegheny River drainage basin covers parts of New York and Pennsylvania in the United ... reach to within convert 8 mi of Lake Erie in southwestern New York. The Allegheny Valley has ... thumb upright The Allegheny River is named as Ohio on a sketch of George Washington . The word Allegheny comes from the Lenape Delaware Native Americans in the United States Indians . Although it is usually ... of the naming of the Allegheny River was given in 1780 by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger ... Publishing, 1999, ISBN 1 889037 17 6 ref Other Indians, such as the Iroquois , considered the Allegheny ... east Interstate 86 that refers to the Allegheny River also as O Hi Yo . ref name Stewart Cite book last ..., the Allegany village , New York Village of Allegany and Allegany State Park . Course Image Allegheny River Bend.jpg thumb left 240px Much of the Allegheny River s course is through hilly woodlands. The Allegheny River rises in north central Pennsylvania, on Cobb Hill Pennsylvania Cobb Hill in central ... boundary of Allegheny National Forest . South of Franklin it turns southeast across Clarion ... and Dam 2 Allegheny.jpg thumb right 240px The Highland Park Bridge crosses the Allegheny River at Aspinwall, Pennsylvania Aspinwall , Pennsylvania , just above Allegheny River Lock and Dam Two . The river ... more details
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Allegheny , after the Allegheny River . The USS Allegheny 1847 The USS Allegheny AT 19 The USS Allegheny ATA 179 Source DANFS http www.history.navy.mil danfs a6 list.htm Shipindex DEFAULTSORT Allegheny Category United States Navy ship names pl USS Allegheny sl USS Allegheny ... more details
Allegheny West is the name of two places in the United States Allegheny West, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Allegheny West , a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Allegheny West Pittsburgh Allegheny West , a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania dab ... more details
Allegheny Mountain may refer to The Allegheny Mountains range in the eastern United States Allegheny Mountain West Virginia Virginia also spelled Alleghany Mountain that demarcates much of the border between Virginia and West Virginia Allegheny Mountain Pennsylvania for the Allegheny Mountain in Pennsylvania disambig ... more details
the Ridge and Valley Appalachians to the east from the Appalachian Plateau locally called the AlleghenyPlateau to the west. The AF is one of the windiest spots east of the Mississippi, a fact ... quote The Allegheny Front, which is the boundary between the Ridge and Valley Appalachians Appalachian Valley and Ridge and AlleghenyPlateau the Appalachian Plateau ref The terrain differences to either ...Geobox Range name Allegheny Front native name other name other name1 category Ridge parent Allegheny Mountains of the br Ridge and Valley Appalachians border image Allegheny storms.jpg image caption The Allegheny Front in Pennsylvania. country United States country flag 1 state Pennsylvania state1 Maryland state2 West Virginia state3 state flag 1 location THIS POINT IS OFFSET TO PLOT ON THE MAP BELOW Greatvalley map.jpg IS NOT SVG lat d 39 lat m 04 lat s 23 lat NS N long d 79 long m 17 long s 53 long EW W elevation imperial elevation round 1 prominence imperial prominence note area unit acre area imperial area round 1 area note area1 imperial area1 type length imperial length orientation width imperial width orientation highest Mount Porte Crayon highest location Randolph County, West Virginia Randolph Pendleton County, West Virginia Pendleton Co. border , West Virginia highest lat d 38 highest ... The Allegheny Front is west of the Cumberland Valley and part of the Appalachian escarpment extending ... map note File 1Dans jpg.jpg thumb 263px right The Allegheny Front Dans Mountain in Maryland. The Allegheny Front AF is the major southeast facing escarpment of the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania ... Escarpment to the north and the Cumberland Plateau Cumberland escarpment to the south , the AF makes ... as the Allegheny Front per se . The name is picked up again south of the Potomac River in West Virginia ... observatories associated with the AF flyway are the following. Allegheny Front Hawk Watch on the border ..., 833 hawks were counted passing the Front. Allegheny Front Migratory Observatory Bird Banding ... more details
Infobox rockunit name Allegheny Formation image caption type sedimentary age Pennsylvanian prilithology sandstone , coal otherlithology namedfor namedby H. D. Rogers, 1840 ref Rogers, H.D., 1840, Fourth annual report of the Geological Survey of the State of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Geological Survey Annual Report, no. 4, 215 p. ref region Appalachian Mountains country United States coordinates unitof subunits underlies Catskill Formation overlies Pottsville Formation thickness extent Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio area map map caption The Pennsylvanian Allegheny Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in western and central Pennsylvania , western Maryland and West Virginia , and southeastern Ohio . It is a major coal bearing unit in the Appalachian Plateau of the eastern United States . Description In Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Formation includes rocks from the base of the Brooksville Coal to the top of the Upper Freeport Coal, and was defined to include all economically significant coals in the upper Pennsylvanian sequence. ref The Geology of Pennsylvania, C. H. Shultz, ed., DCNR Special Publication 1, 1999. Ch. 10 http www.dcnr.state.pa.us topogeo pub specialpub.aspx ref The formation consists of Cyclothems cyclothemic sequences of coal, shale, limestone, sandstone, and clay. It contains six major coal zones, which, in Stratigraphy stratigraphic order, are Upper Freeport Coal Lower Freeport Coal Upper Kittanning Coal Middle Kittanning Coal Lower Kittanning Coal Brooksville Coal Members Glen Richey PA , Laurel Run PA , Mineral Springs PA , Millstone Run PA , Clearfield Creek PA Clarion OH, MD, PA, WV , Kittanning PA , Freeport PA, MD, OH, WV Putnam Hill OH, PA Vanport PA, MD, OH, WV Butler MD, PA , Worthington MD, PA Washingtonville OH, PA, WV , Columbiana OH ref http ngmdb.usgs.gov Geolex NewUnits unit 53.html GEOLEX database, Geologic Unit Allegheny , retrieved 28 December 2010 ref Age Relative age dating of the Allegheny places it in the middle Pennsylvanian ... more details
escarpment known as the Allegheny Front . In the west, they grade down into the closely associated AlleghenyPlateau which extends into Ohio and Kentucky . Name The name derives from the Allegheny ... grade down into the dissected AlleghenyPlateau of which they are sometimes considered ... Forest s lay on the eastern slopes of the Allegheny Mountains. The Monongahela National Forest lay within central Allegheny Mountains. The eastern edge of the Alleghenies is marked by the Allegheny Front , which is also sometimes considered the eastern terminus of the AlleghenyPlateau . This great ... map of the AlleghenyPlateau and Mountain Range. Trans Allegheny travel had been facilitated when a military ...Geobox Range Allegheny Mountains native name other name other name1 border Cumberland Mountains parent ... map caption Map showing the Allegheny Mountains in purple. The Allegheny Mountain ... on the Land , Boston. ref Allegheny is the early French language French spelling as in Allegheny River ... as in Allegany County, Maryland , a former British Colony . The word Allegheny was once commonly used ..., the Allegheny Mountains run about 400 miles 640 km . From west to east, at their widest, they are about 100 miles 160 km . Although there are no official boundaries to the Allegheny ... and Valley Province of the Appalachians. Allegheny Front and Allegheny Highlands File Va nationalforests.png ... has an east west elevational change of up to convert 3000 ft m . Absolute elevations of the Allegheny ... of the range. The highest point in the Allegheny Mountains is Spruce Knob 4,863 ft 1,482 m , on Spruce Mountain West Virginia Spruce Mountain in West Virginia . Other notable Allegheny highpoints include Thorny Flat on Cheat Mountain 4,848 ft 1478 m , Bald Knob on Back Allegheny Mountain 4,842 ... National Forest s lie within the Allegheny Mountains. The Alleghenies also include a number of federally ... Laurel Fork Wilderness , and Cranberry Wilderness in West Virginia. The mostly completed Allegheny Trail ... more details
There is also Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Allegheny County and several Allegheny Township, Pennsylvania Allegheny Townships in Pennsylvania. Image Allegheny City.jpg thumb right 1898 map with Allegheny in yellow, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh in red, and parks in green Allegheny City 1788&ndash 1907 was a Pennsylvania municipality located on the north side of the junction of the Allegheny River Allegheny and Ohio River s, across from downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh . It was annexed ..., and its waterfront district, along the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, as the North Shore Pittsburgh ... of historic Allegheny City, leaving only the Commons of Allegheny Center Pittsburgh Allegheny Center and its surrounding neighborhoods to evoke the area s past. The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny Carnegie Library , the Allegheny Post Office Old Post Office Building , and the Children s Museum ... of Allegheny West Pittsburgh Allegheny West , Manchester Pittsburgh Manchester , Central Northside Pittsburgh Central Northside , California Kirkbride Pittsburgh California Kirkbride Old Allegheny Rows Historic District Old Allegheny Rows , and East Allegheny Pittsburgh East Allegheny are listed on the National ... of Allegheny City included the present Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Allegheny Center Pittsburgh Allegheny Center , Allegheny West Pittsburgh Allegheny West , Brighton Heights Pittsburgh Brighton ... Northside , Chateau Pittsburgh Chateau , East Allegheny Pittsburgh East Allegheny , Fineview Pittsburgh ... 1870 53180 1880 78682 1890 105287 1900 129896 The City of Allegheny was laid out in 1788 according ... and as a city in 1840. The population rose to 53,180 in 1870. Industry Allegheny was an industrial ... Germans German immigrants who settled there. The H.J. Heinz Company built its factory in Allegheny ..., also established a factory in Allegheny City. The surviving structures are now occupied by a furniture warehouse and a bus garage. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the Made in Allegheny label ... more details
File Allegheny Reservoir Pennsylvania.jpg thumb 300px State Route 59 crossing the reservoir in Warren County, Pennsylvania The Allegheny Reservoir also known as Kinzua Lake is a reservoir along the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and New York , USA. It was created in 1965 by the construction of the Kinzua Dam along the river. History The Allegheny Reservoir is a man made lake created along the Allegheny River with the construction of the Kinzua Dam in 1965. The lake and the dam are operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . The construction of the lake and dam cost 108 million and destroyed the towns of Kinzua, Pennsylvania Kinzua and Corydon, Pennsylvania Corydon , as well as some of the lands of the Seneca Nation . The residents in these areas were forced to move. ref name corps http www.lrp.usace.army.mil rec lakes kinzuala.htm stats U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Kinzua Dam & Allegheny Reservoir ref ref name dwyer Dwyer, Tom. A Guide to the Allegheny National Forest , http books.google.com books?id G lrd9uZQkUC&pg PA46&dq allegheny reservoir&client firefox a PPA49,M1 Google Books , Penn State Press, 1999, pp. 45 55, ISBN 0 9666045 0 4 . ref Geography The Allegheny Reservoir is surrounded by the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania and Allegany State Park and the Seneca Nation s Allegany Indian Reservation Allegany Reservation in New York. The man made lake is about convert 198 mi km above the mouth of the river in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and located within Warren County, Pennsylvania Warren and McKean County, Pennsylvania McKean Counties in Pennsylvania and Cattaraugus County and the Allegany Reservation in New York. The reservoir is convert 24 mi km long and at full pool it covers convert 21180 acre km2 . ref name corps ref name dwyer ref name rec http www.recreation.gov recAreaDetails.do?contractCode NRSO&recAreaId 397&agencyCode 130 Allegheny Reservoir ... of Warren County, Pennsylvania Category Geography of McKean County, Pennsylvania Category Allegheny ... more details
Refimprove date May 2009 Infobox airline airline Allegheny Airlines image AlleghenyAirlines logo.jpg image size 200 alt IATA AL ICAO ALO callsign ALLEGHENY founded 1946 as Reading Aviation Services commenced August 1957 ceased 1979 Name change to USAir aoc bases hubs div Allegheny County Airport br small ... Arlington , Virginia key people Keith Houk President website Allegheny Airlines Airline codes AL ALO ALLEGHENY was an airline operating out of Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States , from 1952 ... date May 2009 Allegheny Airlines began as All American Aviation Company , a business founded by du Pont family brothers Richard C. du Pont and Alexis Felix du Pont, Jr. in 1939. Allegheny before 1979 ... from airmail to passenger service. The company was again renamed, to Allegheny Airlines, in 1952 the 1950s began a period of significant growth for the airline. In 1960 Allegheny had its headquarters ... pdfarchive view 1960 1960 20 200492.html 492 . ref In the early 1960s, Allegheny added ... date December 2009 Allegheny Airlines also became one of the first airlines to create an affiliated branded network of regional airline carriers operating in unison with Allegheny. This was called the Allegheny Commuter System. Also contributing to Allegheny s growth were the acquisitions of regional ..., Allegheny &mdash looking to shed its regional image &mdash changed its name to USAir ... Sched Service Only Allegheny Mohawk Lake Central align right scope row 1951 30 16 5 align right ... was struck on 12 November 1970 the strike continued into 1971. Allegheny under USAir and US Airways Unreferenced section date May 2009 File Douglas DC 9 30 Allegheny N993VJ.png thumb Allegheny Airlines DC 9 30 , circa 1970 File Allegheny N1136J late.png thumb Allegheny Airlines BAC 1 11 , circa 1979 After Allegheny Airlines rebranded itself as USAir as airline deregulation took effect, the company retained its earlier name for its Allegheny Commuter service, later renamed US Airways Express . Under ... more details
Infobox Hiking trail Name Allegheny Trail Photo Caption Location Eastern West Virginia , USA Length 330 mi 528 km Start End Points South Appalachian Trail br North Mason Dixon Line Use Hiking ElevChange HighPoint LowPoint Difficulty Season Sights Hazards Severe weather Severe Weather The Allegheny Trail is a hiking trail that passes through the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia , USA. It is the longest named trail in the state excepting the Appalachian Trail , convert 4 mi km of which traverse the state at Harper s Ferry . The trail is not yet complete, and substantial sections are still on roads. It was initiated in 1975, and is being built and maintained by the http wvscenictrails.org West Virginia Scenic Trails Association . The northern terminus of the Allegheny Trail is near Bruceton Mills, West Virginia at the Mason Dixon Line , which here represents the boundary between West Virginia and Pennsylvania . The trail ends at the Appalachian Trail on Peters Mountain on the Virginia West Virginia border. See also http www.alleghenyfronttrail.info Allegheny Front Trail , a backcountry loop trail in central Pennsylvania Allegheny Highlands Trail of Maryland , a rail trail Allegheny Highlands Trail of Pennsylvania , a rail trail References Rosier, George L., Compiler, Hiking Guide to the Allegheny Trail , Second edition, West Virginia Scenic Trails Association , Kingwood, West Virginia Kingwood, W.Va. , 1990. coord missing West Virginia Category Hiking trails in West Virginia Category Long distance trails in the United States WestVirginia geo stub US trail stub ... more details
Allegheny Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks County, Pennsylvania Berks County , Pennsylvania in the United States . Allegheny Creek joins the Schuylkill River at Seyfert, Pennsylvania Seyfert . See also List of rivers of Pennsylvania References Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing , Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0 9749692 0 6 External links http waterdata.usgs.gov pa nwis current ?type flow U.S. Geological Survey PA stream gaging stations coord missing Pennsylvania Category Rivers of Pennsylvania Category Geography of Berks County, Pennsylvania ... more details
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development is an nonprofit , private sector leadership organization dedicated to economic development and quality of life issues for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Allegheny County , Pennsylvania , United States . It grew from efforts in the 1940s to coordinate improvements to regional transportation and the local environment. During World War II , the Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association President Richard King Mellon , Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Institute of Technology President Robert Doherty college president Robert Doherty , and others organized local leaders to create a postwar planning committee. Pittsburgh Mayor David L. Lawrence and Allegheny County Commissioner John Kane were early recruits. The Allegheny Conference was officially established in 1944. The city s most visible problem in the first half of the 20th century was air pollution. The Conference brokered an agreement for phased in implementation of smoke control that became city policy. After the Conference voiced its concern for legal loopholes to the state legislature in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , a comprehensive anti pollution law was passed in 1949 for Allegheny County. The clearer skies over the city both attracted new business and encouraged local corporations to retain and expand their Pittsburgh headquarters. The pollution control program explicitly influenced the decision of the Equitable Life Assurance Society to invest in planning the Gateway ... dams on the Allegheny River Allegheny and Monongahela River Monongahela rivers. In the 1940s and 1950s, mass transit in Allegheny County was in jeopardy because of 40 private transit companies and increased ... public and private support. In 1959, legislation was passed to create the Port Authority of Allegheny ... . A related effort was Strategy 21 that enabled public and private agencies in Allegheny County ... Allegheny Conference website References cite book author Toker, Franklin title Pittsburgh An Urban ... more details
Infobox company company name Allegheny Energy, Inc. company logo Image AlleghenyEnergyLogo.png 200px Commented out because image was deleted Image allegheny energy logo.jpg company type Subsidiary of First ... wikinvest stock Allegheny Energy AYE Data Income Statement Allegheny Energy AYE annual SEC income ... FY 2009 small ref name 09BalanceSheet wikinvest stock Allegheny Energy AYE Data Balance Sheet Allegheny ... Power homepage http www.alleghenyenergy.com www.alleghenyenergy.com Image Allegheny Energy service area.svg thumb right Allegheny Energy s service territory. Allegheny Energy is an electric utility ... electric services to customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia. Allegheny ... utility revenues. ref http www.alleghenyenergy.com Allegheny Energy website ref Subsidiary companies Allegheny Energy operates its electric distribution operations under the trade name Allegheny ... Virginia . The electric generating plants are operated by subsidiary Allegheny Energy Supply Company ... projects. Allegheny Energy formerly operated in sections of eastern Ohio , until early 2006, when ..., Allegheny officially sold their Virginia service area. Areas along and west of Interstate 81 were ... 2010, Allegheny announced plans to merge with FirstEnergy . The merger has been approved by stockholders ... FirstEnergy press release FirstEnergy Allegheny Energy Merger Closes Effective Today , February 25, 2011. ref Customer service Allegheny Power was ranked number one in customer ... have rated Allegheny Power the region s top performer. ref company news releases, October 28, 2010 ref Environmental policies, practice and record Allegheny has indicated that its policy is to produce ... of Energy as a participant in the Climate Challenge Program. Under this accord, Allegheny Energy ... involving forestation and vegetative sequestration efforts, Allegheny was able to achieve just ... since 2000 and Allegheny has since recorded another 9 million tons of avoided emissions through ... more details
Infobox company company name Allegheny Technologies, Inc. company logo File Allegheny Technologies Logo.svg 180px company type Public company Public nyse ATI br S&P 500 S&P 500 Component company slogan ... and castings http www.alleghenytechnologies.com AlleghenyTechnologies.com Allegheny Technologies ... has developed to become Allegheny Technologies was formed by the combination of Allegheny Ludlum Corporation ... its World Minerals subsidiary to French company Imerys in 2005. Allegheny Ludlum Corporation has a long ... supplied cannon balls to the Continental Army. Allegheny Ludlum cooperated with Ford Motor Company .... Three such cars are on display in the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum . Allegheny Technologies Inc ... Allegheny acquires Ladish Technologies for 778 million news url http www.domain b.com aero aero general ... Allegheny Technologies, Inc. produces many specialty metals products for both domestic and international ... Alloy Allegheny Technologies debuted its ATI 425 Titanium Alloy on June 14, 2010 at the land and air ... Allegheny Technologies is headquartered in Downtown Pittsburgh at Six PPG Place . Steel mill plants throughout Western Pennsylvania include facilities in Harrison Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Harrison Township Allegheny Ludlum s Brackenridge Works and Vandergrift, Pennsylvania ... listed Allegheny Technologies as the 26th largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United ... Superfund toxic waste sites. ref http www.publicintegrity.org Superfund SiteResults.aspx?act allegheny Center For Public Integrity ref For example, Allegheny Ludlum s Natrona, Pennsylvania Natrona ... 2009 05 02 ref In 2005, Allegheny Ludlum agreed to pay a US 2,375,000 penalty to settle a lawsuit ... pollutants such as chromium, zinc , copper , and nickel into the Allegheny River Allegheny and Kiskiminetas ... links http www.alleghenytechnologies.com Allegheny Technologies website Pittsburgh Corporations Category ... Companies based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Category Metals companies of the United States de Allegheny ... more details
Infobox Observatory name Allegheny Observatory br small National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Register of Historic Places small image Image Allegheny Observatory 2007a.jpg 300px caption The observatory ... website http www.pitt.edu aobsvtry Allegheny Observatory telescope1 name Thaw Memorial Refractor telescope1 ... of Pittsburgh The Allegheny Observatory is an United States American astronomical research institution ... Places Nomination Form Allegheny Observatory date 1977 07 21 accessdate 2010 06 08 ref and is designated ... title Allegheny Observatory publisher Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Historical Markers ... landmark. History Image Allegheny Observatory.jpg thumb 250px A model of the original Allegheny Observatory on the Miniature Railroad & Village at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh . Image Allegheny Observatory Photo Telescope circa 1914.JPG thumb right 250px Photographic telescope at the Allegheny ..., in the city of Allegheny, Pennsylvania incorporated into the city of Pittsburgh in 1907 by a group of wealthy industrialists calling themselves the Allegheny Telescope Association . The observatory s initial ... 18, 1883, the first day of railroad standard time in North America , the Allegheny Observatory ... s salary and the bills. Allegheny Observatory continued to supply time signals until the US Naval Observatory started offering it for free in 1920. More recently George Gatewood began using the Allegheny ... from a conference on July 8, 1872, observatory staff came to his home in Allegheny City and told him ... www.pitt.edu aobsvtry fitzclark.html title Fitz Clark Telescope at Allegheny Observatory Website ..., so he could study aerodynamics. After leaving Allegheny Observatory to become secretary of the Smithsonian ... Army. Two well publicized crashes of the Aerodrome in 1903 ended his flight research. The New Allegheny ... holds the ashes of two eminent astronomers and former directors of the Allegheny Observatory ... and the site is now occupied by Triangle Tech . Current work Image Allegheny Observatory 2007b.jpg ... more details
The Allegheny Foundation is a philanthropic organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and part of the Scaife Foundations . Richard Mellon Scaife endowed the foundation and serves as the chairman. It makes grant money grants to historical, educational, political, and environmental organizations, especially those located or serving Western Pennsylvania . From 1985 to 2006 the foundation awarded over 36 million American dollar USD to other organizations. ref cite web title Allegheny Foundation grant receipts publisher Media Transparency url http www.mediatransparency.org recipientsoffunder.php?funderID 5 accessdate 2008 07 22 ref 2007 grants and finances In 2007, the Allegheny Foundation made grants of 3,195,500 USD to 45 organizations. The five organizations receiving the largest grants were ref cite press release title 2007 Annual Report publisher Allegheny Foundation url http www.scaife.com allegh07.pdf format PDF language English accessdate 2008 07 22 ref Boys & Girls Clubs of America Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania, 440,000 Loyalhanna Creek Loyalhanna Watershed Association, 275,000 Pennsylvania Trolley Museum , 262,000 Imani Christian Academy, 250,000 Extra Mile Education Foundation , 250,000 The 2007 annual report also noted that, as of 2007 12 31, the foundation had nearly 55 million USD in cash and Voting share common stocks . Notes reflist 1 External links http www.scaife.com alleghen.html Scaife Foundations Allegheny Foundation http www.mediatransparency.org recipientsoffunder.php?funderID 5 Allengheny Foundation grant recipients from 1985 2006 Category Arts foundations Category Conservation and environmental foundations Category Political organizations in the United States Category Educational foundations Category Foundations based in the United States Category New Right United States Category Organizations based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Category Political and economic research foundations Category New Right organizations United States Pittsburgh ... more details
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