Lancaster County Historical Society

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lancaster County Historical Society The Lancaster County Historical Society was established in l 886 as a salvageable remnant of The Historical, Agricultural and Mechanics Society be­gun in 1857. From its beginning, the society met monthly to hear and dis­cuss research papers by the community’s literati. Every paper was in turn published, owing to the fact that the editors of the two major daily news­papers were officers of...
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Lancaster County: Diversity of People, Ideas and Economy

Posted by 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....
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