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Originally Posted by Powrline
Well, to tell you the truth, I believe that I used the wrong Allegany to represent the Allegheny Mountains, which is a mountain range that runs from Maine (I believe) down to Georgia. However, Cumberland Maryland is located in Allegany County, Maryland.
Isn't Pittsburgh in Allegheny County?
I have lived here for only 6 and a half years, so I am not a Native of the Allegheny Mountains, but I love being here now.
Cheers, 
powrline |
I assume that the range from Maine to Georgia is Appalacians. I think that the Allegany (or Allegheny?) mountains is kind of the western most ridge of the Appalacians, but I don't think it has the full north/south range of the Appalacians. I think the Allegany mts are mainly from NY-Pa-Md/WV.
Yeah, Pgh is in Allegheny county, named for the river, which has it's headwaters in the Allegany mountains in northern Pa.
Out of curiosity, I just did a Google, and came up with one of those Wikopedia things that said that there were 3 different spellings in use, all of which implied the same thing, just different ways of spelling it. So I guess there wasn't anything interesting about the spelling.