Pennsylvania — one of the most developed economic states

The main branches of an economy of the area, national value, coal extraction, pig-iron and steel melt are having. Transition of the American ferrous metallurgy to coke and the ore arriving from area of the Top lake, promoted that east Pennsylvania has lost the former value in this branch. The coal mining has fallen. However in the State of Pennsylvania the big metal works have remained.

Pennsylvania lays on the main ways to internal areas USA. This position getting the increasing value as the territory of the country and internal areas accustomed, took more and more important place in a national economy, had exclusive value for area development. Across Pennsylvania the main ways through Appalachian mountains connecting North Atlantic coast with central and the U.S. Western States lie.

Cradle of the American revolution. A conglomerate of factories on which the most part of chips and the crackers consumed in the USA is made. In Pennsylvania number of hunters per capita exceeds all conceivable limits.

The largest cities: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, Allentown, Lancaster.

Philadelphia

The oldest city in the USA. Here have written the American constitution. Still here there are more than HIGH SCHOOLS and students, than in any other American city.

Who here lives: one and a half million person. Half from them — the Afro-Americans. The others — generally Irish, Italians and Poles.

Areas:

* The Western Philadelphia — «the University city».
* Southern Philadelphia — silent area with a large quantity of the Italian pizzerias.
* Fishtown — quarter of artists and musicians.
* Northern Philadelphia — a real ghetto with slums and gangsters.

Lancaster

57,700 inhabitants (1970; with 319,700 suburbs). The main agricultural centre of Pennsylvania.

The industry:
Metalcutting, machine-building, textile, knitted, tobacco, the food-processing industry, manufacture of hours, umbrellas, linoleum.

Lancaster PA hotels:

* To Stay the night in legendary Country Inn and Suites Manheim.
* To Spend the night in Hershey PA hotels.
* To eat the well-known cheese stake in well-known Springhill Suites for $3,75.
* Will relax in a jacuzzi in comfortable Homewood Suites.

Hotel Hershey