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On this Day in History: First known Photo of a Presidential Inauguration
This image is the first known photo of a presidential inauguration. It shows the March 4,…
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…
Lancaster’s Forgotten Presidential Candidate: Prohibitionist James Black
Raise a glass (of water) to the honorable James Black, Lancaster's forgotten presidential candidate. In addition…
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: President John Adams visits Lancaster
On This Day in History. On May 28, 1800, President John Adams visited Lancaster while on…
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…