What do you think of when you think of Pennsylvania? Independence Hall and
the Declaration of Independence? Ben Franklin? The Liberty Bell? How about Broadband satellite internet?
Pennsylvania is named after its founder William Penn, late of jolly old England. Penn, a real estate entrepreneur, was owed a large sum of money by King Charles II and the transfer of property in 1681 settled the debt. Penn promptly sailed to his new holdings and set up a government based on his Quaker principles, quite controversial at the time. Some of the colonists, mainly Dutch and Swedish and English, didn’t care for this deal and eventually were allowed to split off three counties to become Lower Delaware.











