Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Abbeville
American/Consolidated Tobacco Companies
Andrews Bridge Historic District
Ashley and Bailey Silk Mill
B.F. Good & Company Leaf Tobacco Warehouse
Bachman and Forry Tobacco Warehouse
Bangor Episcopal Church
Basch & Fisher Tobacco Warehouse
Baumgardner's Mill Covered Bridge
Bausman Farmstead
Berger, John & Son, Company Tobacco Warehouse
Bird-in-Hand Hotel
Bitzer's Mill Covered Bridge
Bowman, Jacob, Tobacco Warehouse
Bowmansville Roller Mill
Bridge in West Earl Township
Brimmer, John, Tobacco Warehouse
Brown's, George, Sons Cotton and Woolen Mill
Buchanan, James, House
Bucher Thal Historic District
Bucher, Joseph, House
Buck Hill Farm Covered Bridge
Butcher's Mill Covered Bridge
Byers-Muma House
Caernarvon Presbyterian Church
Cameron Estate
Central Hotel
Central Market
Chickies Historic District
Colemanville Covered Bridge
Columbia Historic District
Columbia Wagon Works
Combination Baggage and Mail Car No. 5403
Conestoga Cork Works Building
Congregational Store
Connell Mansion
Consolidation Freight Locomotive No. 1187
Consolidation Freight Locomotive No. 2846
Consolidation Freight Locomotive No. 7688
Cumberland Valley Car
Davies, Edward, House
Davis, David, Farm
DDI Electric Locomotive No. 36
Dohner, Michael, Farmhouse
Donegal Mills Plantation
Donegal Presbyterian Church Complex
Douglass, John, House
Eby Shoe Corporation
Eisenlohr-Bayuk Tobacco Historic District
Electric Locomotive No. 4859
Ellicott, Andrew, House
Ephrata Cloister
Ephrata Commercial Historic District
Erb's Covered Bridge
Evans, Ann Cunningham, House
Farmer's Southern Market
Flat Car No. 473567
Follmer, Clogg and Company Umbrella Factory
Forry's Mill Covered Bridge
Franklin and Marshall College Campus Historic District
Freight Locomotive No. 5741
Frey, Jacob L., Tobacco Warehouse
Friedman, Henry B., Tobacco Warehouse
Fulton Opera House
Fulton, Robert, Birthplace
Furnace Hills Tenant House
Germania Turnverein Building
Good, John B., House
Griest, W.W., Building
Grove Mansion
Habeck, Christian, Farm
Hager Building
Hamilton Apartments
Hammer Creek Bridge
Hand, Gen. Edward, House
Harnish, Johannes, Farmstead
Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District
Herr's Mill Covered Bridge
Herr, Christian and Emma, Farm
Herr, Hans, House
Hess, A. B., Cigar Factory, and Warehouses
Hibshman Farm
Kagerise Store and House
Kaufman's Distillery Covered Bridge
Keller's Covered Bridge
Keller, Jacob, Farm
Kirk Johnson Building
Kirks Mills Historic District
Krauskap, Henry, House, and Store
Kreider Shoe Manufacturing Company
Lancaster Armory
Lancaster City Historic District
Lancaster County Courthouse
Lancaster County House of Employment
Lancaster Crematorium
Lancaster Historic District
Lancaster Historic District (Boundary Increase II)
Lancaster Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Lancaster Trust Company
Lancaster Watch Company
Landis Mill Covered Bridge
Landis Valley Museum
Leaman Place Covered Bridge
Lime Valley Covered Bridge
Linden House
Lititz Moravian Historic District
Locomotive No. 6755
Locust Grove
Manheim Borough Historic District
Manor Street Elementary School
Marietta Historic District
Marietta Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Martin, B. B., Tobacco Warehouse
Mascot Roller Mills
Mascot Roller Mills (Boundary Increase)
Mayer, David M., House
McGovern, Edward, Tobacco Warehouse
Mentzer Building
Mercer's Mill Covered Bridge
Mikado Freight Locomotive No. 520
Miller, David H., Tobacco Warehouse
Milleysack, J. B. Cigar Factory
Montgomery, William, House
Mount Hope Estate
Mount Hope Estate (Boundary Increase)
Mountain Springs Hotel
Mumma, Samuel N., Tobacco Warehouse
N. Shippen-Tobacco Avenue Historic District
Neff's Mill Covered Bridge
New Era Building
New Holland Machine Company
Nissly Swiss Chocolate Company
Nissly-Stauffer Tobacco Warehouses
North Charlotte Street Historic District
North Prince Street Historic District
Northeast Lancaster Township Historic District
Old City Hall
Old Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge
Old Main, Goethean Hall, and Diagnothian Hall
Oregon Mill Complex
Passenger and Baggage Car No. 4639
Passenger Coach No. 3556
Passenger Day Coach No. 8177
Passenger Locomotive No. 1223
Passenger Locomotive No. 1737
Passenger Locomotive No. 460
Passenger Locomotive No. 7002
Pine Grove Covered Bridge
Pinetown Covered Bridge
Pool Forge Covered Bridge
Poole Forge
Red Run Covered Bridge
Reilly Brothers and Raub Building
Reinholds Station Trinity Chapel
Reyer, Peter and Catherine, Farmhouse
Schnader, R. K. & Sons, Tobacco Warehouse
Schnader, Walter, Tobacco Warehouse
Seigrist's Mill Covered Bridge
Shearer's Covered Bridge
Shenk's Mill Covered Bridge
Sherman, L. G., Tobacco Warehouse
Shreiner Farm
Slater Cigar Company
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Speedwell Forge Mansion
Sprenger Brewery
Spring Grove Forge Mansion
Stauffer, Christian, House
Steel Hopper Car No. 33164
Steel Passenger Coach No. 1650
Steel Passenger Coach No. 1651
Stehli Silk Mill
Steinman Hardware Store
Stevens High School
Stiegel-Coleman House
Stoever, John Casper, Log House
Strasburg Historic District
Sturgis, Julius, Pretzel House
Sutter, Johann Agust, House
Swarr, John and Elizabeth, House
Switcher No. 1670
Switcher No. 94
Teller Brothers-Reed Tobacco Historic District
Totten House
U.S. Post Office
Wagner's, Charlie, Cafe
Walter, Henry, House
Weaver's Mill Covered Bridge
Weaver, Henry, Farmstead
Weber-Weaver Farm
Werner, William, House
West Lawn
White Chimneys
White Rock Forge Covered Bridge
Windom Mill Farm
Windsor Forge Mansion
Witmer's Tavern
Wooden Baggage Express No. 6
Wooden Express Baggage No. 6076
Wooden Hopper Gondola No. 1818
Woodward Hill Cemetery
Wright's Ferry Mansion
Yeates, Jasper, House
Zook's Mill Covered Bridge
1895 Drinking Fountain
249 West Main Street
33 East Main Street
37 East Main Street
40th Parallel
66 East Main Street
A Buried Story
Abraham de Peyster
Adamstown & Vicinity Veterans Memorial
African-American Women Escape County Jail, 1835
Ambulance Co. No. 111 Â 28th Division A.E.F.
An Icon of Lititz Springs Park
Andrew Ellicott
Arched Bridge
At Rockford near here lived & died General Edward Hand, M.D.
B. F. Good / P. Lorillard Tobacco Warehouse
Bangor Episcopal Church
Barnabas and Elizabeth Hughes
Baron Stiegel
Beck Memorial Band Shell
Belmont Lime kiln
Benjamin Franklin
Blacksmith Shop
Boehms Chapel
Built 1907
Changes in Elizabethtown
Charles Demuth
Chickies* Mansion and Chickies* #1 Furnace (*Chickies - also Chiques or Chikis)
Christiana Riot Monument
Colonial Mansion
Columbia
Columbia and Its Railroads
Columbia Veterans Memorial
Concrete Railroad Piers
Conestoga
Conestoga Navigation Company
Conoy Indian Town
David M. Mayer House
Design of Elizabethtown
Donegal Place
Donegal Presbyterian Church
Early Architecture
Early Telegraph
East Cocalico Township Korean War Memorial
East Cocalico Township Vietnam War Memorial
East Cocalico Township World War II Memorial
Edward Shippen
Elizabeth Area Veterans Memorial
Elizabethtown
Elmer Holmes Bobst
Ephrata Veterans Memorial
Ephrata's Veterans' Plaza
Fern Island
First National Bank
First Presbyterian Church
First Reformed Church
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
Frick Stationary Steam Engine
General Edward Hand
General Johann Agust Sutter Home
George Ross
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, S.T.B.
Grape Hotel
Grist Mill Process
Heine Weber Smokehouse
Heintzelman House
Henry Hess Landis Farm
Henry Norwood "Barney" Ewell
History of Railroad Pump Cars
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Home of Conrad Beissel
Home Site of Col. William Henry
Honor Roll
Hopewell Forge Mansion
Hot-Blast Stove Bases
In honor of those who served in the World War
In honor of those who served our country in Korea & Vietnam
In Memoriam
In Memory of 110 Soldiers of the Continental Army
In Memory of the Brave Soldiers of the Continental Army
In Memory of World War I Heroes
Industry in Elizabethtown
Iron Works
Isaac Long Barn
Jacob Gottwals Francis (1870-1958)
James Buchanan
James Buchanan
James Buchanan
James Buchanan Home
James Hale Steinman, A.B., LL. B., LL.D.
James Hazlett Binns
James Tilden Sheckard
Jasper Yeates
John A. Sutter
John Augustus Sutter Memorial
John Durang
John F. Reynolds
John Frederick Steinman, Ph. B., LL. D.
John Fulton Reynolds
John Marshall
Joseph Simon
July 4th Candle Illuminations
Kagerise Store and House
Keller's Mill Bridge
Kinzer
Lancaster County
Lancaster County Civil War Veterans Memorial
Lancaster County Korean War Veterans Memorial
Lancaster County Veterans Memorial
Lancaster County Vietnam War Veterans Memorial
Lancaster County World War II Merchant Marine Veterans Memorial
Lancaster County World War II Veterans Memorial
Lancaster Rotary Park: 100 years of Rotary International
Lancaster's Historic Diversity
Lancaster's 'freedom spies'
Landis Graveyard
Last Memorial Day Encampment
Leacock Presbyterian Church
Lehigh Valley No. 40
Leo F. Hauck
Lincoln Highway
Linden Hall
Lititz Boy Scout Cabin
Lititz Caboose Museum
Lititz Moravian Congregation
Lititz Spring Park Memorial Fountain
Lititz Springs Park Entrance Gates
Lititz Springs Park Historical Markers
Lititz Veterans Memorial
Lititz Wall of Remembrance
Major John Light
Manheim Historical Society
Manheim Veterans Memorial
Marietta
Mary Zug Francis (1870-1958)
Mathias Roeser
Mayer Cemetery
Memorial Park of Reamstown
Memorial to Henry William Stiegel
Mentzer Building
Military Stables and Barracks
Millersville University
Millstone Plaza History
Monongahela Railway No. 67
Montgomery House
Monument to John Wise
Moravian Gemeinhaus
Mount Hope Estate & Grubb Mansion
Mount Zion Buildings
Mountjoy Memorial
Music Pavilion
Musselman / Vesta Iron Furnace Office Building
Old Center Square (Penn Square)
Old Courthouse
Old Standby Park
On This Site in 1861 Julius Sturgis
Original Head Race & Water Turbine
Patriots of St. James Church
Paul E. Beck Memorial Band Shell
Penn Square
Pennsylvania Medical Society
Pennsylvania Railroad No. 3750
Pennsylvania Railroad No. 460
Pennsylvania Railroad No. 6755
Pennsylvania Railroad No. 7688
Pioneer Settler / Founder of Reamstown
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie No. 508
Prelude to Gettysburg / A Desperate Plan
Privy
Reading Observation No. 1
Revolutionary War Memorial 1930
Revolutionary War Stables
Reynolds House
River Brethren
Robert Coleman
Robert Fulton Birthplace
Rock Ford
Ross H. Sachs
Round House
Ruamie Hill Binns
S. Dale Kaufman
S. Woodrow Sponaugle '37
Samuel S. Haldeman
Sgt Joseph E Jackson
Shippen House
Simon Cameron
Simon Snyder
Site of Conestoga Indian Massacre
Skip Hoist / Oil Shed
Smokehouse / Icehouse
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Springs Head-End
St. James' Church (Episcopal)
Stiegel Glass Manufactory
Stone Base of the Chimney
Strasburg Rail Road
Susquehannock Apartments
Thaddeus Stevens
The American Indian and the American Soldier
The Brethren
The Caernarvon Presbyterian Church
The Christiana Riot
The Cost of Dynamite
The Edward Davies House
The Heritage Center
The Importance of Conversation
The Jasper Yeates Building
The Kedar
The Lititz Pharmacopoeia
The New Era Building
The Pennsylvania Canal
The Pilgerhaus - 1754
The Rev. Thomas Barton
The Revolutionary War
The Richard Kneedler Sculpture Garden
The Shoe Industry in Elizabethtown
The Steinman Hardware Building
The War of 1812
The Water Towers in Buchanan Park
The Witness Tree
The Witness Tree Monument
This site honors the Sister City Relationship between Ephrata, Pennsylvania and Eberbach, Germany
Thomas Mifflin, Esq.
Thomas Wharton, Jr.
Trolleys
U.S.S. Maine Memorial
V.F.W. Post 8795 Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
War Memorial Park
Watts Railroad Station
William Augustus Atlee
William J. Iannicelli '48
Witmer's Tavern
Women in Marietta
World War I Memorial
"Steps of Progress"
"The Returned Soldier"
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Lancaster County became known for its thriving agricultural industry. Its fertile soil and mild climate made it ideal for farming, and the county became a leading producer of wheat, corn, and livestock. With the advent of the Pennsylvania Canal and the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad in the 19th century, Lancaster County's agricultural products were easily transported to urban markets, further bolstering its economy.
In the early 20th century, Lancaster County experienced significant industrial growth, particularly in the city of Lancaster. The construction of railroad lines and the expansion of factories contributed to the county's economic prosperity. The county also gained recognition for its manufacturing sector, producing items such as silk textiles, cigars, and furniture.
Today, Lancaster County is known for its rich history and preserved heritage. It is often referred to as the "Garden Spot of America" due to its picturesque landscapes, traditional Amish communities, and thriving tourism industry. The county attracts visitors from around the world who come to experience its historical sites, charming small towns, and delicious Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.
Brief timeline of the history of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:
- 1709: Lancaster County was established by William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
- 1730: The city of Lancaster was founded as the county seat.
- 1751: Lancaster became the capital of Pennsylvania, serving as the seat of government until 1799.
- 1777: During the American Revolutionary War, Lancaster was briefly the capital of the United States when the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia.
- 1800s: Lancaster became known for its thriving agricultural industry, with a focus on farming and crop cultivation.
- 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg, a significant event in the American Civil War, took place just outside of Lancaster County.
- 1900s: Lancaster County experienced a growth in manufacturing, particularly in the production of textiles, steel, and tobacco products.
- 1957: The Amish Farm and House, a popular tourist attraction showcasing Amish lifestyle and culture, was established in Lancaster County.
- 1980s: The tourism industry in Lancaster County began to flourish, attracting visitors with its picturesque countryside and Amish traditions.
This timeline provides a glimpse into the major events and milestones that have shaped the history of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.