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The Bedford Springs Hotel, used by President Buchanan as a summer White House, Bedford, Pennsylvania.
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The Bedford Springs Hotel, used by President Buchanan as a summer White House, Bedford, Pennsylvania.
The Bedford Springs Hotel, used by President Buchanan as a summer White House, Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Bedford

Pennsylvania, United States
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Bedford, borough (town), seat (1771) of Bedford county, southern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the Raystown Branch Juniata River, in the Allegheny Mountains, 38 miles (61 km) south of Altoona. A settlement made on the site about 1750 by John Wray (or Ray), a Scottish trader, was known as Raystown. Fort Bedford (built 1758 and apparently named for John Russell, 4th duke of Bedford) was a frontier rallying point and supply base for...

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