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Category: On this Day in History
On this Day in History: Lancaster prints its first newspaper under the guidance of Benjamin Franklin
On this Day in History. On January 15, 1752, Lancaster's first newspaper, Lancastersche Zeitung or The…
On this Day in History: Winter so cold the railroad ran tracks across a frozen Susquehanna
On this Day in History. The winter of 1852 was so cold that it froze the…
On this Day in History: 82-car freight train collides with a three-ton boulder near Safe Harbor
What happens when an 82-car freight train collides with a three-ton boulder? Engineer William Neway found…
On this Day in History: George Washington makes his final visit to Lancaster
On this day—September 20, 1796—George Washington made his fifth and final visit to Lancaster, PA. The…
On this Day in History: The Christiana Resistance – first battle of the Civil War
On this day—September 11, 1851—a deputy U.S. marshal led a raid in Christiana to recover four…
On this Day in History: George Washington Visits Lancaster
It was on this day—July 3, 1791—that George Washington made his most triumphant visit to Lancaster.…
On this Day in History: Union forces burn Wrightsville Bridge to prevent invasion of Lancaster County
On this Day in History June 28, 1863: Union forces burned the Wrightsville Bridge to stop…
On this Day in History: 1906 Shenks Ferry TNT factory explosion obliterates 11 men
It was on this day that the worst accident in Lancaster County history occurred. On June…
On this Day in History: President John Adams visits Lancaster
On This Day in History. On May 28, 1800, President John Adams visited Lancaster while on…
Why does George Washington have two birthdays!?!
Today, we celebrate George Washington's birthday. However, it hasn't always been February 22. Examining the historical…
On this Day in History: Columbia’s first bridge across the Susquehanna destroyed
On this day in 1832, the first bridge to span the Susquehanna River between Columbia and…
On this Day in History: Enola Low Grade officially opened in a section called the “Deep Cut”
At noon on July 27, 1906, the Atglen & Susquehanna Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad officially…