Shanksville
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Location in Pennsylvania
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1798 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Pennsylvania | ||
| County : | Somerset County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 1 ′ N , 78 ° 54 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 245 (status: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 490 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 0.5 km 2 (approx. 0 mi 2 ) of which 0.5 km 2 (approx. 0 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 680 m | ||
| Postal code : | 15501 | ||
| Area code : | +1 814 | ||
| FIPS : | 42-69680 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1187353 | ||
Shanksville is a borough in Somerset County , Pennsylvania , USA . 245 people live there (according to the 2000 census ). It is around 100 kilometers southeast of Pittsburgh .
history
Shanksville's history can be traced back to 1798. Christian Shank ran three mills. Shanksville became internationally known through the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA . One of the four hijacked passenger planes crashed there ( United Airlines Flight 93 ).
geography
The community itself covers just 0.5 km² .
The Memorial - Flight 93 National Memorial
A national memorial, the Flight 93 National Memorial, commemorates the victims of Flight UA 93 . The crash site itself is not open to the public.
The draft for the memorial hit the headlines in the late summer of 2010 after voices were raised that said that the semicircular structure of the memorial complex and its topographical orientation had discovered an Islamic crescent shape pointing exactly to Mecca.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See "Flight 93 memorial decried as Islam symbol," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 10, 2010
Web links
- National memorial "Flight 93 National Memorial" (Eng .; Eng. WP)