Black Moshannon State Park Historic Districts: Facts

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six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Mid-State Regional Airport is a Keystone Opportunity Zone to promote economic growth, but, to protect the Pennsylvania state park and forest (pictured) it was formed from, cannot legally expand?

despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?

most of the buildings in the Giant Forest Lodge Historic District (cabin pictured), listed on the National Register of Historic Places, were demolished by the National Park Service to protect giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park?
the 1963 Leopold Report was written in response to the controversial killing of an estimated 4,309 elk in Yellowstone National Park by the U.S. National Park Service?
the National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York, suggesting the first one be expanded instead?
the Buckner homestead and farm is used by the National Park Service as an interpretive center to show visitors what pioneer life was like in Washington?
the US National Park Service is funding improvements to county road H-58, the main access road to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?
the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David?

Slabsides, John Burroughs' historic log cabin in West Park, New York, is only open to the public two days every year?
a purchase of 80 paintings by Phoebe Hearst enabled artist Joseph Henry Sharp to devote himself to painting full-time in a log cabin at Little Big Horn?
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 in a log cabin in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee?
the walls of Peter the Great's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg, a 60 m² (650 sq ft) log cabin, were painted to resemble brickwork?

although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848?
the closing of Nittany Furnace (pictured) in 1911 marked the end of modern iron-production in Bellefonte, and presaged the decline of the Pennsylvanian town?