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The Central Market was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1] The Central Market is owned and maintained by the City of Lancaster and has been since its development. In more recent years the Central Market Trust, which is a non-profit 501 (c)3 organization has managed it.
The communities of Mechanicsville and Charlotte Hall in Southern Maryland are home to the largest Amish population in Maryland. The community is well known for its agriculture and its large farmers' market/flea market. The Amish community in the Mechanicsville/Charlotte Hall area consists of 8 church districts and about 1,000 people.
Farmer's Southern Market is a historic farmer's market located in downtown Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by noted Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban and built in 1888. It is a brick building consisting of a three-story headhouse and two-story markethouse, in the Queen Anne style. It measures 90 feet wide (7 bays ...
“And even if 100% of Lancaster’s eligible voters were registered and had a 100% turn-out rate, that would only be about 18,000 [Amish.]” Amish women and girls attend a wedding in Smoketown ...
The Academy site was declared the Charlotte Hall Historic District, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [2] Since 1940, a sizable Amish farming community has existed nearby, along with numerous strip mall businesses along Maryland Route 5 continuing into the adjacent community of Mechanicsville. A former large ...
Donnermeyer, Joseph F. "A Demographic Profile of the Greater Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Amish." The Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities 3.2 (2023): 1-34. online; Ellis, Franklin, and Samuel Evans. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: With biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men (Closson Press, 1883) online
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
PA 340 eastbound entering Intercourse. The route follows the alignment of the King's Highway, a colonial road built in 1733 that linked Lancaster and Philadelphia.The road was laid out by the provincial government of Pennsylvania [7] along what was once known as "Old Peter's Road," a trade route used by the French-Canadian fur trader Peter Bisaillon (1662-1742).