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Looking for a fun afternoon adventure? Try exploring Lancaster Conservancy's Steinman Run Nature Preserve. It perfect for creek stomping, and it even has this fun bridge. While there weren’t any trolls beneath it, we did locate this shard of china hidden in the stream on a recent trip. If you look carefully you can see the intricate design on it.

Towards the end of the Great Depression in 1937, rumors circulated that a “new maximum security prison” was to be built near Mt. Gretna in Lebanon County. Project architect Henry Hornbostel described it this way:

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One of my favorite winter activities is exploring the tunnels and culverts beneath the Enola Low-Grade Rail Trail. Most of these tunnels and culverts are completely hidden from view. Often scores of people pass over them every day without ever knowing.

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If you love old maps like I do, then you will enjoy this one by John Jarvis, former headmaster at Lancaster Country Day School, from 1978 highlights the many creeks, towns, and hills of Lancaster County.

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