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Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Latrobe, Pennsylvania: city in Westmoreland County, 33 miles east of Pittsburgh. Founded 1851 by railroad agent Oliver Barnes; birthplace of the banana split (1904), home of Rolling Rock beer, Arnold Palmer, Fred Rogers, and Steelers training camp.
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Mechanicsburg borough, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, between Harrisburg and Carlisle; incorporated 1828 from wagon-repair settlement Drystown; Cumberland Valley Railroad town, home of Jubilee Day street fair; 2020 population 9,311.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
New Hope, Pennsylvania is a Bucks County borough of about 2,622 on the Delaware River across from Lambertville, NJ, known for the Delaware Canal, Bucks County Playhouse, arts scene, LGBTQ friendliness, and high incomes.
Newark, Delaware
Newark is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, home to the University of Delaware, chartered in 1758, with 30,601 residents at the 2020 census.
Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, Maryland is a barrier-island resort town in Worcester County, between the Atlantic and Sinepuxent Bay. Founded around the 1875 Atlantic Hotel, incorporated 1880, population 6,844 (2020), Maryland's primary seaside resort.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's largest city (1,574,281 residents, 2025), founded by William Penn in 1682; a postindustrial hub of eds-and-meds economy, strong-mayor government, SEPTA funding crisis, and 19.7% poverty rate.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: city at the Allegheny-Monongahela-Ohio confluence, once the US steel capital (half of national output by 1911), now an Eds and Meds economy of 307,632 people (2025).
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Punxsutawney is a borough in Jefferson County, western Pennsylvania, home of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil and the annual Groundhog Day ceremony at Gobbler's Knob; population 5,769 (2020), incorporated 1850.
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania: county seat of Berks County in the Schuylkill Valley, founded 1748 by Thomas and Richard Penn, incorporated as a city 1847, population 95,112 (2020), former home of the Reading Railroad.
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware: Atlantic resort city in Sussex County, founded 1873 as a Methodist camp meeting ground, incorporated 1891 as Henlopen City, renamed 1893; mile-long boardwalk, 'Nation's Summer Capital,' 1,108 year-round residents swelling to about 25,000 on summer days.
Rockville, Maryland
Rockville, Maryland, is the county seat of Montgomery County in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Also called Williamsburgh and Montgomery Court House historically; incorporated 1860; population 67,000 (2020); core of the I-270 technology corridor.
Salisbury, Maryland
Salisbury, Maryland: largest city on the Eastern Shore and seat of Wicomico County, founded 1732 on the Wicomico River; about 33,800 residents, a regional hub for poultry, healthcare, education, and the state's second-largest port.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton, historically Slocum Hollow, is a city in northeastern Pennsylvania and the seat of Lackawanna County, once the "Anthracite Capital of the World" and home of the country's first electric trolley system in 1886.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland: unincorporated census-designated place in southeastern Montgomery County near Washington, D.C.; 81,015 residents (2020), major transit hub with Metrorail, MARC, and the Purple Line, and a revitalized downtown.
State College, Pennsylvania
State College is a home rule borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State's University Park campus. Incorporated 1896; 2020 population 40,501; Council/Manager/Mayor government under a 1973 Home Rule Charter.
Towson, Maryland
Towson, Maryland is an unincorporated census-designated place and the county seat of Baltimore County, just north of Baltimore. Population 59,553 (2020); home to Towson University, founded 1866, with a $2.5 billion economic impact.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
West Chester, Pennsylvania: the Chester County seat since 1786, a 1.85-square-mile borough of about 19,600 people near Philadelphia, home to West Chester University and a historic walkable downtown.
West Reading, Pennsylvania
West Reading is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, incorporated March 18, 1907 from Spring and Cumru Townships, laid out in 1873, known for its walkable Penn Avenue Main Street and award-winning revitalization programs.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Wyoming Valley city on the Susquehanna River, founded 1769 and named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré; anthracite coal hub, devastated by 1972 Tropical Storm Agnes flooding.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is the Lycoming County seat on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, once the nation's lumber capital and now home of the Little League World Series.
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware, the state's largest city (70,898 in 2020) and New Castle County seat, founded as Swedish Fort Christina in 1638, chartered 1739, an industrial and du Pont chemical center turned corporate and banking capital.
York, Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania: county seat of York County, laid out 1741 on Codorus Creek; seat of the Continental Congress 1777-1778 where the Articles of Confederation were adopted; 2020 population 44,800.