Roxbury is an unincorporated community located off the Blue Mountain exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 76) in Lurgan Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. Route 641 and Route 997 meet there. Roxbury was laid out circa 1778. A post office called Roxbury has been in operation since 1822.
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Blue Mountain, Blue Mountain Ridge, or the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania, is a ridge of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania. Forming the southern and eastern edge of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians physiographic province in Pennsylvania, Blue Mountain extends 150 miles from the Delaware Water Gap on the state's border with New Jersey in eastern Pennsylvania to Big Gap in Franklin County in south-central Pennsylvania at its southwestern end.
Views of Blue Mountain dominate the southern tier of most eastern and central Pennsylvania counties, providing an ever-visible backdrop cutting across the northern or western horizon. Most transport corridors and road beds piercing the barrier necessarily pass through large water gaps, including the Susquehanna, Schuylkill, Lehigh and Delaware River valleys or wind gaps, low gaps in the ridge caused by ancient watercourses. The barrier ridge forms a distinct boundary between a number of Pennsylvania's geographical and cultural regions.
To the south of the Susquehanna River gap in the south-central part of the state is the Cumberland Valley, part of the Great Appalachian Valley; to its northwest side are the southern reaches of the Susquehanna Valley with picturesque streams channeling travel corridors deep into and over the central and western mountains and valleys, the heartland interior counties of Pennsylvania along Main Branch Susquehanna, the valleys lead to the Coal Region in Northeastern Pennsylvania Wyoming Valley, and the distant Pocono Mountains. To the south of Blue Mountain is the Capital Region and the state's capital of Harrisburg, the region's primary city, along with nearby communities in the rich farming regions of Lebanon Valley and Pennsylvania Dutch Country of York and Lancaster counties and the lower halves of both the Lehigh Valley and Delaware Valley, both of which extend north through water gaps beyond the ridgeline.
Blue Mountain School District, which is named after the mountain range, is located just off PA Route 61 in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.
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Lurgan is an unincorporated community in Lurgan Township in northern Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is 6.6 miles west-northwest of Shippensburg. Lurgan has a post office, with ZIP code 17232.
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The Blue Mountain Tunnel is one of two tunnels through Blue Mountain in Pennsylvania, located west of Newburg. It is one of seven tunnels completed for the Pennsylvania Turnpike mainline, and at 4,339 ft in length, is the shortest of the four still in use today.
The Blue Mountain Tunnel is 600 ft to the east of the Kittatinny Mountain Tunnel, separated by the Gunter Valley. It was originally completed in 1940 with only one two lane section. An additional section was added in the 1960s carrying two additional lanes.
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The Kittatinny Mountain Tunnel is a 4,727 ft tunnel which carries the Pennsylvania Turnpike through Kittatinny Mountain in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. One of seven tunnels completed for the turnpike, and one of four still in use today, it is located 600 feet west of the Blue Mountain Tunnel, separated by the Gunter Valley.
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Pleasant Hall is an unincorporated community in Letterkenny Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. Pleasant Hall is located at the intersection of state routes 533 and 997, north of Chambersburg and northeast of the Letterkenny Army Depot.
The Pleasant Hill ZIP code 17246 covers 1.63 sq mi and a population of 195.
Pleasant Hall was platted circa 1840. A post office called Pleasant Hall has been in operation since 1851.
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