The Bald Eagle Valley of central Pennsylvania, United States is the low lying area draining into the Bald Eagle Creek between the Allegheny Front and the Bald Eagle Mountain ridge, south of the West Branch Susquehanna River, in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. It is southwest of the West Branch Susquehanna Valley that includes Williamsport and Northwest of the Nittany Valley that includes State College.
The Bald Eagle Valley lies in the central portion of Centre County and the southern portion of Clinton County. It runs from Port Matilda down to Lock Haven PA, It includes most of the Bald Eagle Area School District and Bald Eagle Township. The Bald Eagle State Park is also in the valley. The park includes the Joseph Foster Sayers Reservoir, around the town of Howard, a prominent topographic feature formed by damming Bald Eagle Creek.
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... The Commonwealth was already involved in the financing of the Bald Eagle Spring Creek, as guarantor of the annual interest on its stock, and it, together with the Bald ... Lock Haven Railroad was chartered to run down the Bald Eagle Valley between Tyrone and Lock Haven, and to build a branch to Bellefonte, paralleling the canal route ... up the financing of the Tyrone Lock Haven, reorganized it as the Bald Eagle Valley Railroad, and pushed it to completion along the length of the Bald Eagle Valley in 1865 ...
... Valentine Iron also leased the Nittany Valley Railroad, which carried ore from Taylor Bank to the Furnace ... Gephart had become a director of the Bald Eagle Valley in about 1890, perhaps to strengthen his negotiating position ... It crossed the Nittany Valley Railroad in what is now the suburb of Park View Heights, established an interchange, and began to operate the Nittany ...
... Bald Eagle Valley Railroad Locale Central Pennsylvania Dates of operation 1861–1908 Successor Pennsylvania Railroad Track gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) The B SS continued to operate the line ... from Tyrone to Lock Haven (including a small part of the Tyrone Clearfield) became the Bald Eagle Branch of the PRR, while the line from Milesburg to ... While fully under PRR control, the Bald Eagle Valley maintained its corporate existence for some time ...
... Bald Eagle Valley is in the western part of the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian Mountains ... scale mountain that once towered above what is now the adjacent Nittany Valley ... rock layers from deep within the eroded mountain are now exposed on the east side of the Bald Eagle ridge ...
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