Arendtsville, Pennsylvania

Beechersville is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located off Cherry Street where Gettysburg Street becomes Mummasburg Road, adjacent to the borough of Arendtsville.

Thomas Brothers Store, also known as the Biglerville Country Store, is an historic, American general store and residential building that is located in Biglerville in Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Biglerville is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,225 at the 2020 census. The National Apple Museum is located on West Hanover St. in Biglerville. The borough is home to Biglerville High School.

Biglerville High School is a small public high school located in the borough of Biglerville, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Upper Adams School District. The high school serves the boroughs of Biglerville, Bendersville, and Arendtsville. It also serves the residents of Tyrone Township, Butler Township, and Menallen Township. As of the 2020–2021 school year, enrollment was 540.Biglerville High School students may choose to attend Cumberland Perry Vocational Technical School for vocational training. The Lincoln Intermediate Unit IU12 provides the school with a wide variety of services, such as specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.

Butler Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,550 at the 2020 census.

Floradale is an unincorporated community in Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The U.S. Census Bureau no longer recognizes Flora Dale as a census-designated place. It is located on Pennsylvania Route 34, 2 miles (3 km) north of Biglerville. The last updated census was in 2010, when the population was 38.The post office was officially named, Flora Dale, 1861 to 1911, when it was briefly changed to Floradale, 1911 to 1926, then back to Flora Dale, 1926-1957. Contemporary newspapers used both spellings interchangeably throughout its history. Flora Dale consists of a few houses along Pennsylvania Route 34, just north of Quaker Valley Road. The Flora Dale Post Office opened in 1861, with postmaster Elijah Wright and his wife Mary A. Wright serving until 1885. Three more postmasters, Amos G. Cook, Maria K. Cook, and Mary A. Hartman, served until 1919. The last two were sisters, Anna and Alice Black, serving until it closed in 1957. The community's only signage was its name on the post office which was removed when it closed, and since there has been no sign to tell others of its name. The community remains marked on most maps.Just beyond the hamlet is the Menallen Township Society of Friends Meeting House. It is the second meeting house, a brick structure built in 1880 to replace the first one, built circa 1838. It is surrounded by large white oak trees, whose trunks are over 2 feet (0.61 m) thick. Behind the Meeting House is a covered stable where one could tie up the horses. There is a cemetery immediately south of the Meeting House.

Franklin Township is a township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,676 at the 2020 census.

McKnightstown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was formerly part of the Cashtown-McKnightstown CDP as of the 2000 census, and was then split into two separate CDPs for the 2010 census.

Cashtown-McKnightstown was a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania. It was the 2000 United States Census area designated by obsolete Census Code 11588 and has been replaced by the CDPs of Cashtown and McKnightstown, which the USGS designated as separate named places on August 30, 2010.

WFKJ is a Christian radio station licensed to Cashtown, Pennsylvania, broadcasting on 890 kHz AM. The station which only operates during daytime hours serves Adams County, Pennsylvania and is owned by Jesus Is Lord Ministries International. WFKJ's programming consists of Christian talk and teaching along with Christian music, with a portion of its programming from the Oasis Radio Network.By day, WFKJ is powered at 890 watts by day, using a non-directional antenna. But because 890 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WLS in Chicago, WFKJ must sign off at night to avoid interference.

Wenksville is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States, at the foot of South Mountain and near the Old Slate Quarry serviced by the 1891 Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad.[1] A United Methodist society was organized in the "Wanksville" community c. 1844.[2]

Oak Ridge is the landform of the Gettysburg Battlefield where the Eternal Light Peace Memorial was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1938 Gettysburg reunion. After the July 1, 1863 Battle of Oak Ridge, Whitworth rifled cannon fired from the Confederate position on Oak Hill onto Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. The ridge has numerous Battle of Gettysburg monuments and the 1895 Oak Ridge Observation Tower. In the 1920s, the Gettysburg Airport was established in the west slope of the ridge.