Originally called "Westmoreland Homesteads", Norvelt Pennsylvania was established April 13,1934, by the federal government as part of a New Deal homestead project.
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14 Facts About Norvelt Pennsylvania
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Pickett helped establish the first American Friends Service Committee work camp in, what would become Norvelt Pennsylvania, to help the Homesteads project with the construction of a reservoir and ditch to hold a water main for the community.
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Support from many high-level politicians helped Norvelt Pennsylvania survive until 1944, when the federal government disbanded the homestead program and dispersed its assets.
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The garment factory, on Mount Pleasant Road in Norvelt Pennsylvania, is owned and operated by Union Apparel Incorporated, which manufactures and exports men's and boy's tailored dress and sport coats as well as women's, misses' and juniors' suits and coats.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania was born out of the socialist idea of community farming and of a need to eliminate the strains of capitalism.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania never achieved the lofty goals that Eleanor Roosevelt and others had invested in it.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania Elementary School, founded in 1938, is a primary school that is a part of the Mount Pleasant Area School District.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania School has a wide lawn in front with a baseball field and playground equipment.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania is the home to PONY League Field which fields Little League and PONY League Baseball games throughout the summer.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania was drafted by the San Diego Chargers and named the 1962 Chargers' team Rookie of the Year.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania's son, named John Murtha, has been a member of the US House of Representatives, representing a district based in Johnstown.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania is the Home of the Norvelt Pennsylvania Colts Football Team of the Mount Pleasant Area Junior Football League.
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Norvelt Pennsylvania is a PGA golf professional and director of instruction at Four Streams Golf Club in Beallsville MD.
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Jack Gantos book Dead End in Norvelt Pennsylvania, set in Norvelt Pennsylvania, won the 2012 Newbery Medal for the best children's book of 2011, as well as the 2012 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.
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