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Indiana: Silas M. Clark House
Indiana: Silas M. Clark House Silas M. Clark House, home to the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

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Indiana, borough (town), seat of Indiana county, west-central Pennsylvania, U.S., in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, 46 miles (74 km) northeast of Pittsburgh. Settled about 1764, it was laid out in 1805 on land donated for a county seat by George Clymer of Philadelphia, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. It was incorporated in 1816. Prior to the American Civil War, Indiana was a station on the Underground Railroad, an escape route for slaves. Indiana University of Pennsylvania was founded there as a teachers college in 1875. The borough is now a centre of retail trade and ...(100 of 138 words)

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