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The Horse Inn: Lancaster City’s Oldest Continuously Operating Restaurant
There are restaurants you stumble upon. And then there are restaurants you search for. For decades,…
Greenwood Cemetery Mausoleum: Lancaster’s Egyptian-Inspired Westminster Abbey
High above Lancaster, a monument rises that looks like it belongs on the banks of the…
The Eavesdropper’s House: Lancaster’s Oldest Townhouse is For Sale
👀 Ever feel like someone’s listening? In downtown Lancaster, a sandstone townhouse built in 1762 has…
The Ornament Gamble: How the Lancaster Woolworth Sparked a Christmas Tradition
It’s the autumn of 1880 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A young businessman has recently opened a store…
The Lancaster Friendship That Touched the American Revolution: Major John André & the Cope Family
The Unique Friendship of Major André and Caleb Cope In the fall of 1775, Lancaster found…
Lancaster Crematorium: The Country’s First Public Crematorium
🔥 America’s First Public Crematorium Was in Lancaster! Tucked away behind a line of trees in…
The 10-Hour House: How a Bet Built Lancaster’s Fastest Home
What happens when a daring Lancaster businessman bets he can build a house faster than anyone…
From Lancaster to the Constitution: How a 1744 Native American Speech Shaped a Nation
From June 22 to July 4 of 1744, the streets of Lancaster, PA, became the stage…
Tales of the Macabre: Lancaster Woman Becomes Pillar of Fire
🔥 Woman becomes pillar of fire. 🔥 That was the unforgettable headline splashed across Lancaster’s newspapers…
On this Day in History: Milton Hershey sells his Lancaster-based American Caramel Company for $1 million
✨On This Day In History✨ On August 10, 1900, Milton Hershey sold his Lancaster City-based American…
A Glimpse into the Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy
Last night, along with the rest of the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County board, I…
Lancaster’s Beaver Street Wailing House
In the heart of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a chilling tale lurks in the shadows of the past,…
Why isn’t Lancaster’s Lady Justice blind?
I had an eye-opening visit to LancasterHistory and their incredible new exhibit, "Thieves & Vagabonds: A…
Headless Skeletons of F&M’s Dietz-Santee Hall
While Dietz-Santee Hall has no ghost stories, an unusually macabre incident transpired there on September 8,…
Bob the Stumbling Ghost of F&M’s Wohlsen Admission House
Constructed in 1929 for use as the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, the Wohlsen Admission House…
Declaration of Independence scribe Timothy Matlack lived in Lancaster, PA
*fifty-five in iron pen, Mr. Matlack can't offend.* Did you know that Timothy Matlack, scribe of…
On this Day in History: Lancaster’s most influential resident, Thaddeus Stevens, dies
✨On This Day In History✨ On August 11, 1868, Thaddeus Stevens died in Washington, D.C. He…
On this Day in History: Lancaster hangs the same man…twice!
The 5th Amendment to the Constitution says you can’t be tried twice for the same crime.…