1,500 covered bridges use to cross the streams and rivers of Pennsylvania. Today 200 remain and…
Category: Local History
100 years ago Lancaster’s trolleys transported 12 million people annually. Today almost all signs are gone. Join the search for the lost Pequea Trolley
Beginning in the late 1800s, a system of trolleys ran all over Lancaster County. One line…
Lancaster County once boasted nearly 500 of these silent stone sentinels. Today fewer than 20 percent remains. Unlock the mystery of these ancient masonry guardians.
Drive the back roads of Lancaster County, and you may have noticed small medieval-looking fortresses embedded…
Side Quest: Revolutionary conspirator and future failed president. Behold the East Orange Street house that sheltered both men.
Would you believe this stately 1749 colonial style mansion in Lancaster City sheltered both a Revolutionary…
Side Quest: What are those mysterious shields adorning historic Lancaster buildings?
Walk around the older neighborhoods of Lancaster City, and you might spy medallions like these adorning…
Side Quest: Understanding Lancaster’s curious ‘eavesdropper’
Who is this mysterious fellow at 121 East King Street that enjoys eavesdropping on your conversation?
Visit the ambitious Lancaster County engineering project that killed 200 men and cost half a billion dollars. Traverse the Enola Low-Grade Rail Trail.
The Enola Low-Grade Line was the engineering marvel of its day. More earth was moved in…
2,000 feet of dark passages. Unforgiving cold. Hungry cave rats. Discover Pequea’s dangerous spelunking underground.
Discover Pequea dangerous underground containing 2,000 feet of cold spelunking passageways.
Dark Culverts. Decimated dynamite factory. Lost Treasure. Explore the forgotten mysteries of Bausman’s Hollow
Explore the forgotten mysteries of Bausman's Hollow rife with the ruins of various long-abandoned stone foundations,…