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This historic district includes 578 contributing buildings that are located in a predominantly residential area of Lancaster, with buildings mostly dating to between about 1840 and 1910. The district also includes a few buildings dating to the eighteenth century. Residential buildings include two- and three-story Victorian brick rowhouses.
PA 283 crosses the Conewago Creek into Mount Joy Township in Lancaster County and continues southeast through farmland, passing over the Conewago Recreation Trail before coming to a diamond interchange with PA 743 that serves the borough of Elizabethtown to the south. PA 341 Truck splits from PA 283 at this interchange by heading north on PA 743.
The area that became Lancaster County was part of William Penn's 1681 charter. [8] John Kennerly received the first recorded deed from Penn in 1691. [9] Although Matthias Kreider was said to have been in the area as early as 1691, there is no evidence that any Europeans settled in Lancaster County before 1710.
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
It is in the central area of the county, and it immediately surrounds Lancaster City. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 18,591. [2] Lancaster Township is one of the six immediate suburbs of the city of Lancaster, all sharing the same official designation as Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by the United States Postal Service. [3]
Lancaster (/ ˈ l æ ŋ k ɪ s t ər / LANG-kih-stər) also referred to as Lancaster City is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. [4] With a population of 58,039 at the 2020 census , [ 5 ] it is the tenth-most populous city in the state. [ 6 ]
Historically, the Lancaster County covered bridges were painted with red sides and all-white portals. [6] Today most of the bridges retain this pattern, however, some of the portals are painted red with white trim (such as on the Zook's Mill Covered Bridge) or all-red (such as on the Pool Forge Covered Bridge). A number of these bridges also ...
At this point, PA 372 turns north onto PA 896 and the two routes run concurrent through a mix of farms and homes. PA 372 splits from PA 896 by heading east on Christiana Pike, at which point PA 896 makes a turn to the west and enters the community of Georgetown. In Georgetown, the route makes a turn to the north and curves to the northwest ...