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    The gaps of the Allegheny, meaning gaps in the Allegheny Ridge (now given the technical name Allegheny Front) in west-central Pennsylvania, is a series...
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    Kittanning Path (category Native American trails in the United States)
    Path Gaps of the Allegheny Cumberland Narrows Cumberland Gap a succession of water gap valleys in the same upland region known as the gaps of the Allegheny...
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    crossing the Allegheny Front onto the Allegheny Plateau which encompasses the towns' terrains. Topping the gaps of the Allegheny, the area is one of only...
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    1854 as the first transportation infrastructure through the gaps of the Allegheny that connected the midwest to the eastern seaboard across the barrier...
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    Erie people (category Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands)
    the tribes had shared the hunting grounds of the Allegheny Plateau and Amerindian paths that passed through the gaps of the Allegheny. The members of...
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    Kittanning Gap, one of the gaps of the Allegheny, is a now a relatively unimportant wooded ravine (water gap) along the ascent (at the foot) of the Allegheny Ridge...
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    saddle, water gap, or wind gap. Geomorphologically, a gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. Gaps created by freshets...
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    New York, and is pierced in only a few places known as the Gaps of the Allegheny. The Allegheny Plateau is dissected by valleys formed by small streams and...
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  • gaps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gaps is a solitaire card game. Gaps or GAPs may also refer to: Gaps (album), an album by Monster Bobby GAPs or...
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    The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is a 150-mile (240 km) rail trail between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cumberland, Maryland. Together with the C&O Canal...
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    Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (category 1755 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies)
    Maryland. Carlisle was also one of the jump-off points to climb the eastern ascents to the gaps of the Allegheny, which were the only ways animal powered transport...
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    Cayuga people (category Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands)
    eastward remnants of Susquehannock and large groups of Delaware peoples had also traveled the ancient trails through the gaps of the Allegheny to found settlements...
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    the bottom of Lake Huron. After the 1778 Sullivan Expedition broke the power of the Iroquois, the New York corridor joined the gaps of the Allegheny,...
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  • important creek forming one of the gaps of the Allegheny and especially the lower valley utilized by the PRR Horseshoe Curve climbing the escarpment between Altoona...
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    Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad (category Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad)
    several of the streams forming the gaps of the Allegheny. Hence, the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad became a key integral part of what grew to be the largest...
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    Connecticut Land Company (category History of Connecticut)
    states on lands west of the gaps of the Allegheny draining into the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers. Under the arrangement, all the states gave up their...
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    Lenapehoking (category Geography of New Jersey)
    the gaps of the Allegheny was part of the goal, were such remote areas commonly visited before the extensive trapping and hunting beginning with the Beaver...
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    established the Pennsylvania Canal System and the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Later amendments substituted a new technology, railroads, in place of the planned...
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    surmounting the gaps of the Allegheny in central Pennsylvania, or trails along the Mohawk River in New York, enabled a steady stream of settlers to reach the near...
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    Erie Canal (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    and the Monongahela River or the Youghiogheny River valley (both of the Ohio & Mississippi river system),  • the gaps of the Allegheny connecting the Susquehanna...
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    Forbes Expedition (category Battles of the French and Indian War)
    exploiting the climb up via one of the few southern gaps of the Allegheny through the Allegheny Front, into the disputed territory of the Ohio Country...
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    Schuylkill River (category Tributaries of the Delaware River)
    relatives: the Erie people west and northwest through the gaps of the Allegheny in eastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania (between the upper Allegheny River...
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    Blair Gap, one of the gaps of the Allegheny, is a water gap along the eastern face atop the Allegheny Front escarpment. Like other gaps of the Allegheny, the...
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    Wilderness Road (category Native American trails in the United States)
    travel to the west, with only three natural interior breaks allowing animal powered travel without great engineering works. These were the Gaps of the Allegheny...
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    using three gaps of the Allegheny Mance Curve, between Meyersdale and Hyndman, Pennsylvania, along Sand Patch Grade. Long operated by the Baltimore &...
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  • that of the Potomac River. The Potomac Highlands broadly overlaps, but is not identical with, the four-state Allegheny Highlands or High Alleghenies region...
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    Kittanning Run (category Rivers of Pennsylvania)
    The Kittanning Run is one of the several streams draining the Allegheny Plateau, each one cutting an abrupt valley, one of the gaps of the Allegheny— one...
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  • Canal age (category Aqueducts on the National Register of Historic Places)
    and the Monongahela River or the Youghiogheny River valley (both of the Ohio & Mississippi river system),  • the gaps of the Allegheny connecting the Susquehanna...
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    Maryland and Pittsburgh via the Alleghenies, was built in the late 1900s and runs through the town of Smithton. The GAP is considered a "Rails to Trails"...
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    Brownsville, Pennsylvania (category Pennsylvania populated places on the Monongahela River)
    survivors that the Iroquois allowed to move there as tributary peoples (climbing the gaps of the Allegheny). These migrations occurred over the 70 to 80 years...
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