Floradale, Pennsylvania
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Floradale is an unincorporated community in Adams County
, Pennsylvania
, United States
. Floradale is located on Pennsylvania Route 34
2 miles north of Biglerville.
We knew Flora Dale as two words, but it was a few houses along Pennsylvania Route 34, just north of Quaker Valley Road. After the Post Office decertified part of a house that was served by the Black Sisters in the late 1950s there is no sign to tell others of its name. The community remains marked in most maps. Just beyond it is the Menallen Township Society of Friends Meeting House. It is the second meeting house for the first one was built about 1838 and the present brick structure was built in 1880. It is surrounded by large white oak trees, whose trunk diameter is over 2 feet thick. Behind the Meeting House is a covered stable where one could tie up the horses. There is a cemetery immediately south of the Meeting House, where one could the relatives of those who died, and it was where one could marvel at the long Row against the west brick wall.
The Griest Family lived at that top of that hill, and it was surrounded by large maple trees, that shed golden yellow leaves.
MeeUSGS GNIS: Floradale, Pennsylvania
Adams County, Pennsylvania
Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,407. It was created on January 22, 1800, from part of York County and named in honor of the second President of the United States, John Adams...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Floradale is located on Pennsylvania Route 34
Pennsylvania Route 34
Pennsylvania Route 34 is a long state route located in southern Pennsylvania. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 15 Business in Gettysburg. The northern terminus is at U.S. Route 11 and U.S. Route 15 south of Liverpool....
2 miles north of Biglerville.
We knew Flora Dale as two words, but it was a few houses along Pennsylvania Route 34, just north of Quaker Valley Road. After the Post Office decertified part of a house that was served by the Black Sisters in the late 1950s there is no sign to tell others of its name. The community remains marked in most maps. Just beyond it is the Menallen Township Society of Friends Meeting House. It is the second meeting house for the first one was built about 1838 and the present brick structure was built in 1880. It is surrounded by large white oak trees, whose trunk diameter is over 2 feet thick. Behind the Meeting House is a covered stable where one could tie up the horses. There is a cemetery immediately south of the Meeting House, where one could the relatives of those who died, and it was where one could marvel at the long Row against the west brick wall.
The Griest Family lived at that top of that hill, and it was surrounded by large maple trees, that shed golden yellow leaves.
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