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Kane is a
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in McKean County in the
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of
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, east by southeast of Erie. It was founded in 1864 by
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General Thomas L. Kane of the famous Bucktail Regiment at an elevated site 2210 feet (674 m) above sea level. In the early part of the 20th century, Kane had large glass works, bottle works, lumber mills, and manufactures of brush handles, saws, cutlery, screen doors and windows. The population peaked in the 1920s but has since declined to 3,612 people in 2020. It is the home of the Kane Area School District, and they are known as the Kane Wolves. Famous residents of Kane include
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, two-time NBA Champion and 1992 Olympic gold medalist coach; Amy Rudolph, an Olympic distance runner and qualifier in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Games; composer
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; and
Evan O'Neill Kane Evan O'Neill Kane (April 6, 1861 – April 1, 1932) was an American physician and surgeon from the 1880s to the early 1930s who served as chief of surgery at Kane Summit Hospital in Kane, Pennsylvania. He was a significant contributor in his day ...
, a surgeon known for removing his own appendix and repairing his own hernia under local anesthetic.


Geography

Kane is located at (41.661712, -78.810328). According to the
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, the borough has a total area of , all land. Image:Aerial view of Kane.jpg, Aerial looking north The above photo is an aerial view of Kane (looking north) taken on May 4, 2008. Below is an aerial shot of Kane looking northwest. Click photo for a larger view. Image:Aerial shot of Kane looking northwest.JPG, Aerial looking northwest


Climate

Kane has a
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...
( Köppen Climate Dfb) with long, snowy winters and warm, humid summers. The record low in Kane is and the record high is Late fall/early winter is especially snowy due to heavy amounts of lake effect snow from
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and, to a lesser extent,
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. Lake effect snow during cold snaps in early spring also helps to raise snowfall totals. Kane is the coldest city in Pennsylvania by annual mean.


Demographics

As of the
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of 2010, there were 3,730 people, 1,758 households, and 1,052 families residing in the borough. The
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was 2,331.25 people per square mile. There were 1,993 housing units at an average density of 1,179.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the borough was 98.91%
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, 0.12%
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, 0.10% Native American, 0.17% Asian, 0.24% from other races, and 0.46% from two or more races.
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or Latino of any race were 0.82% of the population. There were 1,758 households, out of which 28.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.9% were
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living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.2% were non-families. 34.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.91. In the borough the population was spread out, with 23.1% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 20.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 86.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.5 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $30,460, and the median income for a family was $38,672. Males had a median income of $32,318 versus $20,907 for females. The
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for the borough was $16,167. About 11.1% of families and 13.1% of the population were below the
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, including 19.7% of those under age 18 and 12.2% of those age 65 or over.


Recreation

Kane is a
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community which is rich with outdoor entertainment due to its location near the Allegheny National Forest.
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and
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are very popular forms of entertainment for some people. Other people enjoy visiting such scenic areas as the Kinzua Dam, and the collapsed
Kinzua Bridge The Kinzua Bridge or the Kinzua Viaduct (, ) was a Rail transport in the United States, railroad Trestle bridge, trestle that spanned Kinzua Creek in McKean County, Pennsylvania, McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The bridge was ...
(this railroad bridge was destroyed by a tornado in 2003, and is now the Kinzua Skywalk). In the long winters, people enjoy
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, sled riding, winter hiking, and snowmobiling. For children, the local Evergreen Park has the Evergreen Enchanted Playland Creative Playground. The Evergreen Park also has a nine-hole, 18 tee disc golf course that has annual tournaments in the summer. People of all ages enjoy swimming at the high school public pool that is open various times of the year to give swimming lessons as well as holding recreational swim times. Each summer, Kane is site of an outdoor
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playing current movies. It is home to "Art in the Wilds", an outdoor, juried fine arts show held each year in Evergreen Park on the fourth Saturday and Sunday of June, as well as "Kane Fest", an annual festival in July formerly known as the Black Cherry Festival, which is no longer being held. Kane also holds Glenwood Park, which is great for a nice outdoor family picnic, great time for the kids, playing catch at the baseball fields, or riding bicycles at the skatepark.


Media

* The ''Kane Republican'' — One of two daily newspapers containing both local and national news in McKean County (the other being the Bradford Era). The Republican is an afternoon newspaper, published by the same company as Elk County's newspapers, the ''St. Marys Daily Press'' and the ''Ridgway Record''. * WXZY-LP (FM 101.7) — Established in 2014 as a non-profit community station, 101. 7 WXZY broadcasts a wide variety of musical genres as well as coverage of local events, news, and sports. * WPSX (FM 90.1) — A repeater of WPSU-FM, the
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-owned
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affiliate, is licensed to Kane. * WBYB (FM 103.9) — No longer located in Kane, WBYB was the final incarnation of the station serving Kane at 103.9, (formerly known as WLMI). A longtime
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outlet throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, as of July 2013, the base of operations and transmitter has been relocated to Eldred, on the other side of the county. * WQLE (AM 960, defunct) — McKean County's very first local radio station, first signing on the air as WADP in 1954. The call letters were changed to WKZA in the 1970s and to its last call sign, WQLE, circa 1990. The station fell silent in late 1992 and has not returned to the air since. Its tower and studio building, located south of Kane, were dismantled in the late 1990s. * WCGN (FM 88.3) — The "
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" has a radio translator in Kane. Radio stations based in and around Warren and Saint Marys are also audible in the Kane area. No television stations currently serve the Kane region, with the only television service coming from cable and satellite providers. For the purpose of designated market areas, Kane is at the southwestern corner of the Buffalo television market but is geographically closer to the Central Pennsylvania market. Both markets' stations (as well as, occasionally, those of the Erie market, whose DMA ends in neighboring Warren County) are seen on local cable and satellite providers.


History

Kane was founded by Brigadier General Thomas L. Kane and his wife Elizabeth Denniston Wood Kane, M.D. Thomas L. Kane was the second son of Judge John Kintzing Kane of Philadelphia, a prominent associate of Presidents
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and
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. In 1846, then Colonel Kane aided the
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on their flight west from
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, to the
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; he arranged for them to winter on Indian lands near
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. In 1858, Colonel Kane prevented the "
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" between 2500 US Army soldiers, under A.S. Johnston, and the Mormons, under Kane's personal friend,
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. Thomas L. Kane was offered the Utah Territorial Governorship, but insisted that the position go to Brigham Young. Although never a religious convert to the Latter-day Saints, General Kane remained a personal, political, and legal adviser to Brigham Young until Young's death. General Kane's older brother was
Elisha Kent Kane Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the A ...
, America's most prominent Arctic explorer before the Civil War. The General's wife and three of their four children became physicians in Kane. Their oldest son,
Evan O'Neill Kane Evan O'Neill Kane (April 6, 1861 – April 1, 1932) was an American physician and surgeon from the 1880s to the early 1930s who served as chief of surgery at Kane Summit Hospital in Kane, Pennsylvania. He was a significant contributor in his day ...
, M.D., demonstrated the efficacy of local anesthesia on two occasions by performing surgery on himself—once repairing an inguinal hernia, and once removing his own appendix. The Kane mansion,
Anoatok Anoatok (Eskimo-Aleut for "the wind loved spot"), now Kane Manor Inn, is an historic residence which is located in Kane, Pennsylvania, in McKean County. Commissioned by the author, physician and women's rights activist Elizabeth Dennistoun ...
, Kane Armory, Thomas L. Kane Memorial Chapel, and the New Thomson House are listed on the
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. Due to its elevation, Kane had many summer vacationers in the 1950s and 1960s who stayed there for various periods during the late summer and fall months to avoid the effects of hay fever and allergies present at lower elevations in the days before air conditioning was prevalent. Bassist of Signals Midwest Ryan Williamson was Born in Kane on September 5, 1986.


Kane Tornado of 1985

On May 31, 1985, a
tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the ...
destroyed many homes in Kane and neighboring East Kane. The F4 tornado passed through the town at approximately 8:15 PM. There were 3 deaths as a result of this tornado. This is the worst natural disaster in Kane's history.


Industry

The Holgate Toy Company was for many years based in Kane. One of the more famous toys they manufactured was a wooden replica of the Mister Rogers Trolley car, seen in every single episode of
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. The company has since relocated to
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.


Kane Area School District

The Kane Area School District has two schools that house the district's 1,220 students (as of the 2013–14 school year). The Kane Area High School, which opened in 1972, is located just outside Kane in Wetmore Township. The high school sits on the former site of General Thomas Kane's homestead, which burned to the ground in 1896. The high school auditorium stage is roughly where Gen. Kane's front porch would have sat, looking out over the valley where the present-day football field and track sit. The high school houses grades nine through twelve. The Kane Area Elementary-Middle School is located on West Hemlock Avenue and opened in 2010. The existing middle school was renovated in a multimillion-dollar project by the district, and a new elementary wing was added on the east side of the former junior high. The elementary-middle school houses students from kindergarten through eighth grade. The construction of the new addition at the middle school was in response to KASD's board of directors voting to close the Mount Jewett Elementary School and the Chestnut St. Elementary School. Mount Jewett closed after the 2006–07 school year, while Chestnut St. closed after the 2009–10 school year. The Mount Jewett school has since been sold to a private businessman. The Chestnut St. Complex is currently owned b
Kane Innovations
and used as office space for Kane Innovations, the KASD, Head Start and the Intermediate Unit 9.


References


External links


Kane Chamber of Commerce

Kane Republican Newspaper

Kane Area School District

WXZY LP Radio Station



ART IN THE WILDS Annual Juried Fine Arts Show in Kane, PA
{{authority control Populated places established in 1863 Boroughs in McKean County, Pennsylvania 1887 establishments in Pennsylvania