Facts about your state or where you come from

The State College Area High School was the first school in the country to teach drivers education in 1958.

Nazareth is the home of Martin guitars. Finger picking good since 1833.

Little League Baseball's first World Series was held in 1946 in Williamsport.

Actor Jimmy Stewart was born and raised in the town of Indiana. Each year at Christmas the downtown area is decorated in the theme of the film "It's a Wonderful Life".

The town of Franklin became a center for worldwide oil production following Colonel Edwin Drake's discovery of oil in nearby Titusville

Kennett Square is known as the Mushroom Capital of the World.

The Rockville Bridge in Harrisburg is the longest stone arch bridge in the world.

"Doctor, if you don't give me something to help me breathe, I'm going to stop!" came the urgent cry of 16-year old Frederick Gable of Loganville. Vowing not to lose another patient to pneumonia, Dr. George Holtzapple successfully created the first application of oxygen, thus saving his patient's life and winning international fame through his discovery. The year was 1885.

Philadelphia is the site of the first presidential mansion.

Drake Well Museum in Titusville is on the site where Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.

Bob Hoffman of York is hailed the world round as the Father of Weightlifting. Hoffman started York Barbell Corp. in 1932 and preached the gospel of physical fitness throughout his life as an U.S. Olympic coach, businessman and philanthropist.