Lancaster County: Diversity of People, Ideas and Economy
Posted by John Loose on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lancaster County: Diversity of People, Ideas and Economy When Lancaster County was established on May 10, 1729, it became the prototype for the sixty-three counties to follow. The original three countiesPhiladelphia, Bucks and Chester – were created as copies of typical English shires. The frontier conditions of Chester County’s backwoods, from which Lancaster was formed, presented knotty problems to the civilized Englishmen....read more