Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
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The temporary Flight 93 National Memorial
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 Map of Somerset County, Pennsylvania Highlighting Stonycreek Township |
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 Map of Somerset County, Pennsylvania |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Somerset |
| Area | |
| • Total | 61.4 sq mi (159 km2) |
| • Land | 61.2 sq mi (159 km2) |
| • Water | 0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 2,221 |
| • Density | 36.3/sq mi (14.0/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
Stonycreek Township is a township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township takes its name from the Stony creek which for a part of its course flows through it and then becomes its western boundary. As a stream it takes its name from the rocky bed over which It flows in a great part of its course. Its Indian name was Sinne-Hanne or Achsin-Hanne. "Hanne" means a stream and especially a swift mountain stream." The population was 2,221 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
What is now Stonycreek Township was settled in 1762. Most old records call it Stony Creek. The Township was incorporated in 1792 from portions of Quemahoning Township as the last of the six original townships of Somerset County.
The Glessner Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Stonycreek Township gained worldwide attention on September 11, 2001, when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed there, killing everyone aboard. Flight 93 was one of four airliners hijacked that day as part of the al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the United States. It is widely held that the Flight 93 hijackers intended to use the craft to destroy the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The crash here was a result of a struggle over control of the plane between hijackers and passengers, who learned of the plane's intended fate through cellphone calls to and from family members. The community intends to preserve the Flight 93 crash site as a historical memorial.
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