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Perry County, Pennsylvania
Perry County
is a
county
located in the
U.S. state
of
Pennsylvania
. As of the
2010 census
, the population was 45,969. The
county seat
is
New Bloomfield
. The county was created on March 22, 1820, and was named after
Oliver Hazard Perry
, a hero of the
War of 1812
who had recently died. It was originally part of
Cumberland County
and was created in part because residents did not want to travel over the mountain to
Carlisle
(the
county seat
of Cumberland County).
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