Cove Gap is an unincorporated community in Peters Township in Franklin County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 16 in the western portion of the township, near Buchanan's Birthplace State Park.
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Buchanan's Birthplace State Park is an 18.5-acre Pennsylvania state park near Cove Gap in Peters Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The park was created from land donated to the state by Harriet Lane in honor of her uncle, the 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan. It is on Pennsylvania Route 16 along Tuscarora Mountain.
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Buck Run is an 8.8-mile-long tributary of the West Branch Conococheague Creek in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Buck Run rises along the eastern base of Tuscarora Mountain, just below Tuscarora Summit, and cuts through Buchanan's Birthplace State Park before meeting the West Branch Conococheague Creek north of Mercersburg.
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Mercersburg is a borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough is 72 miles southwest of Harrisburg, the state capital. As of the 2020 census, Mercersburg had a population of 1,507.
Due to its location in a rural area, it had a relatively large percentage of African-American workers who had been enslaved from the Revolution. It was called "Black Town" in the early 19th century before incorporation under its current name. Refugee African Americans escaping from slavery in the South also settled here, and the area was known as "Little Africa".
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The Lane House is an historic, American home that is located in Mercersburg in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and is located in the Mercersburg Historic District.
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The James Buchanan Hotel is an historic, American hotel that is located on North Main Street in downtown Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. It was the boyhood home of the fifteenth President of the United States, James Buchanan and was built by James Buchanan, Sr. in 1796.