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Borough in Pennsylvania, US
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Somerset is a borough of 6,000 people (2020) and a township of 12,000 people (2020) in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania. This article also covers Shanksville about 11 miles (17 km) away.
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A 150-acre rural history museum.
This national memorial honors the victims of the flight with various outdoor landmarks. The memorial also features an indoor center with exhibits related to the flight, tributes, and other artifacts from that day.
A historic covered bridge in Somerset Township. It was built in 1830, and is a 60-foot-long (18 m) Burr truss bridge, with vertical plank siding and a tin covered gable roof. The bridge crosses Haupt's Run. It is one of 10 covered bridges in Somerset County.
also known as Manor Hill, now the Georgian Inn of Somerset
A historic mansion on the National Register of Historic Places in Somerset Township. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer and built in 1915. It is a 3-story, brick Georgian Revival style mansion, with a five-bay central section with a hipped roof, flanked by asymmetrical wings. It has housed a hotel since 2010.
Somerset lies just off Interstate 75 110 km southwest of Pittsburgh, and 220 km west of Harrisburg.
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