Editing Boalsburg, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The name "Boalsburg" comes from the Boal family who settled the region after emigrating from County Londonderry, Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/boalsburgvillageconservancy/home/an-american-village|title = An American Village - Boalsburg Village Conservancy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/centre/bios/boal-george-m.txt |title=COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.  159: George M. BOAL, Centre County, PA |publisher=Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania |access-date=Aug 4, 2024 |date=2006}}</ref>  The fourth generation of the Boal family, Col. [[Theodore Davis Boal]], married Mathilde de Lagarde whose mother's sister Victoria married Diego Santiago Colón, a descendant of [[Christopher Columbus]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Columbus and Related Family Papers 1451-1902, An Inventory of the Boal Collection|last=Garner|first=Richard L. and Donald C. Henderson|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press|year=1974|isbn=9780271011745|pages=1}}</ref> Mathilde inherited a portion of her aunt Victoria's estate in 1908 and brought the Columbus Chapel to the Boal Mansion from Spain in 1919<ref>{{Cite book|title=Columbus and Related Family Papers 1451 - 1902, An inventory of the Boal Collection|last=Garner|first=Richard L. and Donald C. Henderson|publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press|year=1974|isbn=9780271011745|pages=3}}</ref> This inheritance included an admiral's desk that family tradition says belonged to Columbus himself.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mcall.com/1992/09/20/the-cross-and-the-sea-chest-columbus-christian-relics-in-historic-boalsburg/|title=The Cross And The Sea Chest Columbus, Christian Relics In Historic Boalsburg|last=Kraft|first=Randy|date=September 20, 1992|work=The Morning Call|access-date=October 3, 2018}}</ref> The Columbus Chapel and Boal Mansion Museum are open to the public. Boalsburg originally was on the main road for travelers from [[Philadelphia]] to [[Pittsburgh]], with the David Boal tavern that housed travelers still standing today. Boalsburg is home to the [[Pennsylvania Military Museum]], as well as the headquarters of the [[American Civil War reenactment|Civil War reenacting]] unit, 3rd Pennsylvania Light Artillery Battery B.

The [[Boalsburg Historic District]] and [[Hill House (Boalsburg, Pennsylvania)|Hill House]] were added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1977. The [[Boal Mansion]] was added the following year.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

The town has a market square design known as 'the Diamond', a common design feature of towns in the northern province of Ulster in Ireland, the style of which was imported by emigrants from Ulster to Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/4031545|title=From Rostrevor to Raphoe: An Overview of Ulster Place-Names in Pennsylvania, 1700-1820|last1=Gilmore|first1=Peter}}</ref>