The Wanners, an Early Lancaster County Pennsylvania Mennonite Family

Urban center in Pennsylvania, United States

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lengeschder
City
Metropolis of Lancaster
From acme, left to right: Lancaster skyline, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Central Marketplace, Wheatland
Flag Seal
Nickname(due south): The Crimson Rose City
Location in Lancaster Canton
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Coordinates (Penn Square): 40°ii′23″N 76°eighteen′16″Westward  /  forty.03972°N 76.30444°W  / xl.03972; -76.30444 Coordinates: 40°2′23″Due north 76°18′16″W  /  40.03972°North 76.30444°West  / 40.03972; -76.30444
Land	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Lancaster
Founded	1729
Incorporated (borough)	1742
Incorporated (city)	1818
Founded by	James Hamilton
Named for	Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Seat	Lancaster County
Government
• Type	Strong mayor − quango
• Mayor	Danene Sorace (D)
• City Quango	Member List Ismail Smith Wade-El - President[i] Jaime Arroyo Amanda Bakay Faith Craig Janet Diaz Xavier Garcia-Molina Pete Soto
Area [2]
• City	7.35 sq mi (19.03 km2)
• State	seven.23 sq mi (xviii.72 km2)
• Water	0.12 sq mi (0.31 kmtwo)
• Metro	802 sq mi (2,080 kmii)
Superlative	368 ft (112 m)
Population (2010)
• City	59,322
• Judge (2019)[3]	59,265
• Rank	10th in Pennsylvania
• Density	eight,200.50/sq mi (3,166.09/km2)
• Urban	402,004
• Metro	507,766
Demonym(south)	Lancastrians
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes	17573, 17601−17608, 17611, 17622, 17699
Area codes	717 and 223
FIPS code	42-41216
Website	cityoflancasterpa.com

Lancaster, ( LANG-ki-stər; Pennsylvania German: Lengeschder) also known every bit the Ruby Rose Urban center (later on the symbol of the House of Lancaster) is a urban center in S Central Pennsylvania, that serves equally the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster Canton and is one of the oldest inland towns in the Us.^[4] With a population at the 2010 census of 59,322,^[5] it ranks 8th in population amongst Pennsylvania's cities.^[6] The Lancaster metropolitan surface area population is 507,766,^[7] making information technology the 104th-largest metropolitan surface area in the U.S. and second-largest in the S Cardinal Pennsylvania expanse.^[7]

The city's master industries include healthcare, tourism, public assistants, manufacturing, and both professional and semi-professional services. Lancaster is all-time known for being the hub of Pennsylvania'southward Amish Country.

History [edit]

Originally called Hickory Boondocks, the city was renamed after the English urban center of Lancaster by native John Wright. Its symbol, the cherry-red rose, is from the Firm of Lancaster.^[8] Lancaster was part of the 1681 Penn's Wood Charter of William Penn, and was laid out by James Hamilton in 1734. It was incorporated every bit a borough in 1742 and incorporated every bit a city in 1818.^[9]

During the American Revolution, Lancaster was the uppercase of the United states of america for i day at the Court House (built 1739, destroyed by fire 1784 and rebuilt before relocating to current Lancaster County Courthouse in 1852; original site is now the Soldiers & Sailors Monument at Penn Square c. 1874),^[x] on September 27, 1777, after the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia, which had been captured past the British. The revolutionary government then moved still farther away to York, Pennsylvania.^[11]

Lancaster was upper-case letter of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1812 with Land Capital meeting at the Court Business firm (congenital 1784 and demolished 1852 and at present site of Soldiers & Sailors Monument at Penn Square),^[10] after which the capital was moved to Harrisburg.^[11]

U.S. census reports show that, from 1800 to 1900, Lancaster ranked within the nation's summit 100 most populous urban areas.

In 1851, the electric current Lancaster County Prison - known locally as Lancaster Castle - was congenital in the city, but shares no visual similarities with the Lancaster Castle in England. The prison house remains in use, and was used for public hangings until 1912.^[12] It replaced a 1737 construction on a different site.

The first long-altitude paved road in the United states of america was the former Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, which continued the cities of Lancaster and Philadelphia. Opened in 1795, the turnpike was paved with rock the whole fashion, and overlaid with gravel. The sixty-2-mile turnpike price more than $450,000, a staggering sum for the time. The route followed what is now Pennsylvania Road 340 (too called the "Onetime Philadelphia Pike") from Lancaster to Thorndale and U.Due south. Road thirty Business organization and U.S. Route xxx from Thorndale to Philadelphia.

The urban center of Lancaster was home to several important figures in American history. Wheatland, the estate of James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States, is ane of Lancaster'south about popular attractions. Thaddeus Stevens, considered among the almost powerful members of the United states House of Representatives, lived in Lancaster equally an attorney. Stevens gained notoriety as a Radical Republican and for his abolitionism. The Fulton Opera House in the urban center was named for Lancaster native Robert Fulton, a renaissance man who created the first fully functional steamboat. All of these individuals have had local schools named afterward them.

After the American Revolution, the city of Lancaster became an iron-foundry eye. Two of the well-nigh mutual products needed by pioneers to settle the Frontier were manufactured in Lancaster: the Conestoga wagon and the Pennsylvania long burglarize. The Conestoga wagon was named after the Conestoga River, which runs through the city.^[thirteen] The innovative gunsmith William Henry lived in Lancaster and was a U.South. congressman and leader during and after the American Revolution.

In 1803, Meriwether Lewis visited Lancaster to be educated in survey methods by the well-known surveyor Andrew Ellicott. During his visit, Lewis learned to plot breadth and longitude as part of his overall training needed to lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition.^[14]

In 1879, Franklin Winfield Woolworth opened his beginning successful "5 and dime" store in the urban center of Lancaster, the F. W. Woolworth Visitor.^[13]

Lancaster was one of the winning communities for the All-America City award in 2000.^[xv]

On Oct 13, 2011, Lancaster's Metropolis Council officially recognized September 27 equally Capital Day, a holiday recognizing Lancaster'southward one day as capital of the United States in 1777.

Geography [edit]

Lancaster is located at 40°02'23" North, 76°xviii'sixteen" West (twoscore.039860, −76.304366),^[16] and is 368 feet (112 m) above body of water level in the Piedmont region of Pennsylvania.

The city is located about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Harrisburg, 70 miles (110 km) due west of Philadelphia, 55 miles (89 km) n-northeast of Baltimore and 87 miles (140 km) northeast of Washington, D.C.

The nearest towns and boroughs are Millersville (4.0 miles), Willow Street (4.8 miles), Eastward Petersburg (5.3 miles), Lititz (7.ix miles), Landisville (viii.half dozen miles), Mountville (8.8 miles), Rothsville (8.9 miles), and Leola (8.9 miles).

According to the United states Census Bureau, the metropolis has a full area of 7.4 square miles (19 km²), of which, 7.4 square miles (xix kmⁱⁱ) of it is land and 0.14% is h2o.

Climate [edit]

Under the Köppen climate classification, Lancaster falls within either a hot-summer boiling continental climate (Dfa) if the 0 °C (32 °F) isotherm is used or a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) if the −iii °C (27 °F) isotherm is used. The hottest recorded temperature in the city was 103 °F (39 °C) on July 23, 2011, while the coldest recorded temperature was −sixteen °F (−27 °C) on Jan 22, 1984. On boilerplate, the metropolis receives 42 inches of precipitation a year. September is the wettest month of the year and February the driest. The snowiest winter on record for Lancaster was the winter of 2009-10 when 72 inches of snowfall roughshod and the smallest amount of snow on record was when four inches fell during the wintertime of 1949–50. The highest recorded January temperature was 77 °F (25 °C) on January 26, 1950, and the coldest July temperature 42 °F (6 °C) on July iv, 1918.^{[ citation needed ]}

On average, the city receives 203 days of sunday a year. The shortest days of the year are between December xviii and December 25, when day length is nine hours and nineteen minutes. The sun reaches its lowest point in the sky of 26° between December 11 and December 31. The longest days of the yr are June xix to June 23, reaching 15 hours and one minute. The lord's day reaches its highest betoken in the sky of 73° from June x to July 2.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Climate data for Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1949–present)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Tape high °F (°C)	seventy (21)	82 (28)	88 (31)	93 (34)	99 (37)	97 (36)	103 (39)	101 (38)	99 (37)	93 (34)	86 (30)	76 (24)	103 (39)
Average high °F (°C)	39.9 (iv.4)	42.8 (6.0)	52.0 (11.ane)	64.half-dozen (eighteen.1)	74.v (23.6)	82.vii (28.two)	87.0 (xxx.6)	85.i (29.5)	78.2 (25.7)	66.4 (xix.i)	54.eight (12.7)	44.4 (6.nine)	64.4 (xviii.0)
Daily mean °F (°C)	31.0 (−0.six)	33.ii (0.7)	41.iv (5.2)	52.6 (11.4)	62.four (16.9)	71.two (21.viii)	75.9 (24.four)	74.1 (23.4)	66.9 (19.4)	55.1 (12.viii)	44.4 (6.9)	35.7 (2.1)	53.seven (12.1)
Average low °F (°C)	22.2 (−v.4)	23.six (−iv.7)	30.9 (−0.6)	40.5 (iv.7)	50.iv (ten.2)	59.seven (15.four)	64.7 (18.2)	63.0 (17.2)	55.half dozen (13.1)	43.7 (half-dozen.5)	34.0 (ane.ane)	27.i (−two.7)	42.9 (6.1)
Record low °F (°C)	−16 (−27)	−9 (−23)	−2 (−19)	xvi (−nine)	21 (−half dozen)	33 (ane)	46 (8)	37 (3)	34 (1)	23 (−v)	eleven (−12)	−3 (−nineteen)	−sixteen (−27)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	3.01 (76)	ii.52 (64)	iii.l (89)	3.54 (90)	3.65 (93)	4.09 (104)	iv.51 (115)	iii.60 (91)	four.82 (122)	4.18 (106)	3.26 (83)	three.47 (88)	44.15 (1,121)
Average snow inches (cm)	6.i (xv)	7.4 (19)	three.4 (8.6)	0.ii (0.51)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.3 (0.76)	0.6 (1.v)	3.iv (8.6)	21.4 (54)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)	ten.0	8.8	10.5	10.9	12.7	11.1	ten.3	nine.vii	nine.5	9.ix	9.6	10.9	123.9
Boilerplate snowy days (≥ 0.ane in)	2.7	2.7	one.2	0.i	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.iii	1.1	8.ane
Source: NOAA[17] [18]

Demographics [edit]

Historical population
Demography	Pop.		%±
1790	3,762		—
1800	iv,292		14.1%
1810	v,405		25.nine%
1820	half dozen,633		22.7%
1830	7,704		16.ane%
1840	8,417		9.3%
1850	12,369		47.0%
1860	17,603		42.three%
1870	20,233		xiv.9%
1880	25,769		27.4%
1890	32,011		24.two%
1900	41,459		29.5%
1910	47,227		13.ix%
1920	53,150		12.5%
1930	59,949		12.8%
1940	61,345		2.iii%
1950	63,774		4.0%
1960	61,055		−four.3%
1970	57,690		−5.5%
1980	54,725		−5.i%
1990	55,551		ane.5%
2000	56,348		1.4%
2010	59,322		5.3%
2020	58,039		−2.2%
Sources:[19] [20] [21] [22]

Every bit of the 2010 census, the city was 55.2% White, sixteen.three% Blackness or African American, 0.7% Native American, 3.0% Asian, 0.i% Native Hawaiian, and 5.8% were two or more than races. 39.3% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.^[23]

As of the census^[20] of 2000, there were 56,348 people, 20,933 households, and 12,162 families residing in the city. The population density was 7,616.5 people per square mile (two,940.0/kmⁱⁱ). There were 23,024 housing units at an boilerplate density of 3,112.1 per square mile (one,201.iii/km^two). The racial makeup of the urban center was 61.55% White, fourteen.09% African American, 0.44% Native American, 2.46% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 17.44% from other races, and 3.94% from two or more races. thirty.76% of the population were Hispanic or Latino people of any race.

Indigenous groups [edit]

The largest ethnic groups in Lancaster every bit of recent estimates are:^{[24] [25]}

• Puerto Rican 29.2%
• German 21.ii%
• African American 12.8%
• Irish gaelic 8.6%
• English eight.2%
• Italian 4.1%
• Dominican 3.2%
• Smoothen two.0%
• Scottish 1.9%
• Mexican 1.8%
• Cuban one.7%
• West Indian i.0%

In 2010, 29.2% of Lancaster residents were of Puerto Rican ancestry. The city has the second highest concentration of Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania after Reading. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as the "Spanish Rose." Lancaster celebrates its Puerto Rican heritage one time every yr with the Puerto Rican Festival.^[26]

In that location were 20,933 households, out of which 31.vi% had children under the age of xviii living with them, 33.4% were married couples living together, 19.0% had a female householder with no married man present, and 41.nine% were non-families. 33.i% of all households were made up of individuals, and ix.ix% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family unit size was iii.23.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.5% under the historic period of 18, 13.nine% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 17.vii% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of historic period or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, at that place were 95.ii males. For every 100 females historic period eighteen and over, in that location were 91.iv males.

The median income for a household in the city was $29,770, and the median income for a family unit was $34,623. Males had a median income of $27,833 versus $21,862 for females. The per capita income for the metropolis was $13,955. 21.ii% of the population and 17.9% of families were below the poverty line. 29.two% of those nether the age of xviii and 12.9% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Poverty in Lancaster is twice the state'due south average, and public schoolhouse records listing more than 900 children equally homeless.^[27] Although in that location are many Amish people from this area, not everyone from Lancaster is Amish, opposite to pop belief.^[28]

Economy [edit]

Lancaster City has been in the procedure of recreating itself, specially since 2005,^[29] with a growth of specialty shops, boutiques, confined, clubs, and reinvestment in downtown institutions and locations. In 2005 the creation of "Gallery Row" solidified the status of Lancaster as an arts destination. The art community continues to thrive and expand.

In that location are as well plans to convert an area of unused polluted industrial grounds (i.east., brownfields), which were once occupied by Armstrong Globe Industries, into playing fields for Franklin & Marshall College. This action is expected to take up about of the former industrial site. The Northwest Corridor will be developed with funds from Lancaster General Hospital. The hospital plans to create a mixed-use development which will add several city blocks to Lancaster'due south grid.

Another brownfield site is Burle Business Park, the city's just commercial and industrial park. Devoted to adaptive re-use, this facility originally opened in 1942 as a U.South. Navy electronics research, development and factory that was operated by RCA. The Navy facility was purchased after World State of war Two past RCA. Burle Business Park was originally occupied by Burle Industries, the successor company to the RCA New Products Division following the 1986 acquisition of RCA past General Electric Company (GE). The GE acquisition of RCA resulted in the divestiture of this facility and the electronic business, just GE retained certain ecology liabilities that were subdivided into a separate parcel. Burle Industries is a major manufacturer of vacuum tube products, including photomultiplier tubes, ability tubes, and imaging tubes. and is the largest U.S. manufacturer of photomultiplier tubes. Burle Industries has completed a voluntary clean-upward under the Pennsylvania Land Recycling Programme ("Act 2").^[thirty]

Shopping [edit]

In addition to Lancaster's boutiques, vintage shops, and art galleries (Gallery Row), Park City Center is the largest enclosed shopping center in South Cardinal Pennsylvania. The mall includes more than 150 stores and is anchored by Boscov'southward, JCPenney, and Kohl'south. Park City opened in September 1971.^[31]

Built in 1889, the Lancaster Key Market place is the oldest continuously operated farmers market place in the United states of america, and many tourists come to purchase the handmade Amish goods that are not ordinarily found elsewhere.^[32] Central Market is listed with the National Register of Celebrated Places, and its towers are of the Romanesque Revival manner. The market underwent renovations beginning in July 2010.^[33]

Lancaster also has two outlet shopping centers, both of which are located in Due east Lampeter Township on U.S. Route thirty. Tanger Outlets is home to about 65 stores. Rockvale Outlets contains over 100 stores and restaurants.^[34]

Summit employers [edit]

According to Lancaster's 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Written report,^[35] the tiptop employers in the urban center are:

#	Employer	# of Employees
ane	Lancaster General Hospital	8,802
two	Dart Container	1,961
3	County of Lancaster	1,907
four	Nordstrom, Inc.	Data Not Available
5	Masonic Villages	1,685
6	School District of Lancaster	one,662
7	LSC Communications (formerly RR Donnelley)	Data Non Bachelor

Government [edit]

Lancaster operates nether a mayor / quango form of authorities. Danene Sorace is the 43rd mayor of Lancaster city. The City Council is equanimous of seven members: President Ismail Smith Wade-El, Jaime Arroyo, Amanda Bakay, Religion Craig, Janet Diaz, Xavier Garcia-Molina, Pete Soto.^[36] On November seven, 2017, Councilwoman Danene Sorace was elected Lancaster's 43rd mayor.^[37]

The metropolis has a full range of services including public safety, health, housing, parks, streets & highways, Water operations and sewer operations.^[38]

Burn down Department [edit]

Fire vehicle in Lancaster

The Lancaster City Agency of Burn operates three engine companies and one truck company. It was established on April 1, 1882, and has a total of 74 uniformed personnel. The Agency responds to more than iii,000 emergency calls annually.^[39]

Police force Section [edit]

The city of Lancaster is protected by the Urban center of Lancaster Bureau of Police. Founded in 1865, the Bureau of Police force is located at 39 Due west. Anecdote Street in downtown Lancaster, and consists of approximately 147 sworn officers and 46 civilian employees. The Bureau of Police operates out of twelve sectors, or districts, and operates in four divisions, including Patrol, Criminal Investigative, Authoritative Services, and Contracted Services. The Bureau as well remains the largest law enforcement bureau in Lancaster County.^{[40] [41]}

Security camera controversy [edit]

Non long after a police officeholder was wounded in a February 17, 2000 daytime shootout near the heart of Lancaster's Penn Foursquare, community residents, law enforcement, and elected officials sought viable solutions to rising law-breaking in downtown. Addressing problems of public safety was a goal when the Lancaster County Crime Commission convened in Baronial 2000. Public meetings and discussions were held over a 2-year menses. Among the seventeen recommendations in the Crime Commission's 2003 report was to explore the feasibility of a civilian-driven system of security cameras to support law enforcement and get-go responders.

Largely due to concerns over a government- or police force-operated organisation of cameras, the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition (LCSC) organized and was registered with the Republic of Pennsylvania every bit a nonprofit in 2004. Its goals included operating a video surveillance arrangement, but information technology likewise developed to work on safety past pattern and customs mobilization.^[42] Paid LCSC staff are background-checked by the FBI and trained to monitor the network of 164 closed-circuit Boob tube cameras in the city of Lancaster. The community organisation is likewise interested in stimulating economic development in downtown by creating a prophylactic environment.

In 2009, the LCSC'due south expansion from a 70 to a 165-photographic camera network attracted national attention, including a front-page article in the Los Angeles Times: "Lancaster, Pa., keeps a shut centre on itself".^{[27] [43]} The article quoted city police chief Keith Sadler every bit maxim, "Years ago, there'southward no fashion we could practice this... It brings to mind Big Brother, George Orwell and 1984. It'south merely funny how Americans accept softened on these issues."^[27]

Prior to the Los Angeles Times article, at that place had been piffling public opposition to the CCTV camera organization. Data showed it had contributed to the prosecution or prevention of several crimes.^[44] All the same, in response to the national coverage, a minor but vocal group of opponents adult, who wanted to turn off the cameras, "possibly for skillful."^[42] The MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann highlighted the outcome in his 'Worst Person in the Globe' segment, criticizing the citizens for "spying on each other."^[43] ABC's Nightline and CBS Evening News likewise covered the citizen-operated surveillance system.^[42]

Politics [edit]

While Lancaster Canton every bit a whole tilts heavily Republican, the city of Lancaster leans much more Autonomous. Registered Democrats held a 13,000 voter registration reward over registered Republicans in the city as of June 2009.^[45] U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama hands won the city of Lancaster, receiving 76% of the vote during the 2008 presidential ballot.^[46]

Federally, Lancaster is part of Pennsylvania's 11th congressional commune, represented by Republican Lloyd Smucker of nearby West Lampeter Township.

The land'due south senior member of the U.s. Senate is Democrat Bob Casey, starting time elected in 2006. The state's inferior fellow member of the United states Senate is Republican Pat Toomey, outset elected in 2010. The Governor of Pennsylvania is Democrat Tom Wolf of neighboring York County, starting time elected in 2014. Additionally, the city of Lancaster is the headquarters of the Constitution Political party.

Lancaster was home to Democrat James Buchanan, the fifteenth president of the Usa. Buchanan arrived in Lancaster in 1809 to practise law. He took up residence near the courthouse on Due north. Duke Street. In 1848 he purchased Wheatland, a Federal mode mansion in the suburbs. He was elected president in 1856.^[47]

Neighborhoods [edit]

Row houses and Stehli mills, c. 1941. Photograph past Lewis Hine.

• Cabbage Colina/The Hill (named for the cabbage patches kept by ethnic Germans in this area^[48])
• Chestnut Hill
• Downtown/Centre Urban center
• Downtown Investment Commune
• Historic East Side
• 8th Ward
• Gallery Row/Arts District^[49]
• Galebach Ward
• Northwest Corridor
• Penn Square
• Prospect Heights
• Seventh Ward
• Sixth Ward
• Uptown
• West Finish
• Woodward Hill

Infrastructure [edit]

Transportation [edit]

RRTA bus at Queen Street Station in downtown Lancaster

The Crimson Rose Transit Authority (RRTA) provides local public passenger vehicle transit to the city of Lancaster and surrounding areas in Lancaster County. RRTA is headquartered outside the urban center of Lancaster. The Queen Street Station in downtown Lancaster serves as a transit hub for several RRTA motorcoach routes.^[fifty]

Bieber Transportation Group (formerly Capitol Trailways) formerly provided intercity bus transit from the Lancaster Train and Bus Station to Reading, Norristown, Philadelphia, and New York Metropolis to the due east, and York to the west; service was discontinued on April 1, 2018.^{[51] [52]} Intercity jitney service from York and Lancaster to New York City was restored by OurBus in July 2018.^[53]

Amtrak as well serves the Lancaster Train and Bus Station, located on the northernmost edge of the city at 53 East McGovern Avenue. The Pennsylvanian, with service between Pittsburgh and New York City via Philadelphia, every bit well as the Keystone Service, which runs from Harrisburg to New York City via Philadelphia, both serve Lancaster.^[54] The city is served by the Lancaster Drome, located half dozen miles (10 km) north of downtown and only south of Lititz, with commercial air service by Southern Airways Express to Washington DC via Dulles, Pittsburgh, and Nantucket on Saturdays.

Lancaster is also a hub for automobile traffic, with many major roadways passing through or effectually the city, including US 30, Us 222, PA 283, PA 72, and PA 272.

Utilities [edit]

Electricity in Lancaster is provided by PPL Electric Utilities.^{[55] [56]} UGI Utilities supplies natural gas to the city.^{[57] [58]} The Metropolis of Lancaster Water Department provides water service to residents and businesses in the city.^[59] The urban center's Public Works department provides wastewater service to Lancaster, operating the Urban center of Lancaster Avant-garde Wastewater Treatment Plant which serves the city and surrounding municipalities.^[60] Trash and recycling drove is provided by the metropolis'due south Public Works section.^[61]

Historical landmarks [edit]

Many of Lancaster's landmarks are significant in local, state, and national history.

• Central Market – congenital in 1889, it is the oldest continuously run farmers' market in the United states of america.
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church – built in 1879, the church'southward congregation aided freedmen migrating to the Due north for opportunities subsequently the American Ceremonious State of war. Their congregation had before aided fugitive slaves fleeing the Due south before the war, using their former church equally a station on the Underground Railroad.
• Cork Factory Hotel – built in 1865 as Conestoga Cork Works. Later the buildings making up what is known today as Urban Identify were home to Armstrong Cork Factory and Kerr Drinking glass Visitor. Rezoned in 2005, Urban Place has been adapted as 49 loft-manner apartments, 115,000 foursquare feet of retail and commercial space, the Cork Mill Hotel, and Cap & Cork Eating house.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Fulton Opera House – the oldest continually running theater in the United States, it is one of three theaters designated as National Celebrated Landmarks (the others are the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia and the Goldenrod Showboat in St. Louis, Missouri).
• Hamilton Watch Complex – old factory and headquarters of the Hamilton Watch Company, which in 1957 sold the world'south first bombardment-powered watch, the Hamilton Electric 500.^[62]
• J. P. McCaskey High School – congenital in 1938 during the Slap-up Low, it is designed in the Fine art Deco architectural style.
• Historic St. Mary'southward Church – built in 1854, this church has served the German-speaking Catholics of Lancaster since 1741.
• Lancaster Arts Hotel – Built in 1881, this building was the Falk and Rosenbaum Tobacco Warehouse. In Oct 2006, the warehouse reopened after adaptation, as Lancaster's first boutique hotel for the arts. It has 63 guest rooms (including 12 suites); an organic restaurant, John J Jeffries; and an on-site art gallery. Information technology is registered with the Historic Hotels of America.
• Lancaster County Prison house – built in 1849, it was styled later on the Lancaster Castle in England.
• Rock Ford Plantation – built in 1794, this was the home of General Edward Mitt, adjutant general to George Washington during the American Revolutionary State of war.
• Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster, Pennsylvania - built in 1908–1909 in what is at present the Historic Commune of Lancaster, it is unique among the buildings by C. Emlen Urban and contains stained glass by Franz Xaver Zettler (designed by Swiss-American architect Woldemar H. Ritter) and by Charles Connick.
• Due west. W. Griest Building – listed on the U.Due south. National Register of Celebrated Places since June 25, 1999. Information technology was built in 1925 in the Beaux-Arts mode using granite, limestone, terra cotta, synthetics, and asphalt. The building is named subsequently William Walton Griest, a former Pennsylvania representative. It is the second-tallest building in the city.
• Wheatland – the historic estate of James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United states of america.

Art and museums [edit]

The city of Lancaster has art, craft and historical museums. The Demuth Museum is located in the former domicile of the well-known painter Charles Demuth, who had a national reputation in the 20th century. Additional museums include the Lancaster Museum of Fine art and the Philips Museum of Art on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College. Art students at the country-of-the-fine art Pennsylvania College of Fine art and Pattern present their works at the academy's gallery, which is open up to the public. LancasterARTS, a non-profit organization founded in 2002, promotes contemporary craft.^[63]

Lancaster city has a thriving art customs. Gallery Row on the 100 cake of North Prince St. features a block of art galleries, and the metropolis proper has over 40 galleries and artists' studios. The galleries host a "Get-go Friday" each month, extending their business hours to showroom new artwork and new artists to the public.

The Lancaster County Quilts and Textile Museum, completed in 2007, celebrates the art of the paw-sewn quilts and other material items produced by women of the region's Amish and Mennonite communities. The museum was airtight in 2011.^[64] The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Museum and the Heritage Center Museum display artifacts and interpret the region's unique history. Children can have a hands-on feel with educational learning at the Hands-on House, also known as the Children'due south Museum of Lancaster. Nature and geology-minded visitors can view the exhibits of the Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum and the North Museum of Natural History and Science.

Stevens and Smith Historic Site is located within the Vine Street lobby of the Lancaster Canton Convention Centre. The site includes the preserved home of U.Due south. Senator Thaddeus Stevens and his companion Lydia Hamilton Smith. The underground portion of the site includes a recently discovered Underground Railroad feature: a converted water cistern used in the antebellum years to hide fugitive slaves on their way to freedom.^[65]

In Lancaster County, the Landis Valley Museum in Manheim Township has exhibits that interpret the canton'south history and culture, especially as a center of ethnic German Amish and Mennonite culture.

Music and entertainment [edit]

There is a rich history of theater and music in Lancaster. The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra has been performing since 1947. The Fulton Opera Business firm is one of the oldest working theaters in the United States. The Ware Centre (owned by Millersville University) and The Trust Performing Arts Center (operated by Lancaster Bible Higher) both regularly host live theater, concerts, and performances. Tellus360 and the Chameleon Club are rock and event venues in downtown Lancaster.

Bible musical theatre [edit]

Glenn and Shirley Eshelman started Sight & Sound Theatres in Ronks, Pennsylvania with the original auditorium in 1976. A larger facility, Sight & Sound Entertainment Centre, opened in March 1991, but was destroyed by fire in January 1997.^[66] The Millennium Theatre was opened on September i, 1998. Bible stories are portrayed in elaborate musical theatre productions with large casts. This theatre features more than 2,000 seats, a 300-human foot (91 thousand) wraparound stage that can hold sets up to xl anxiety high, and improved audio and visual effects.^[67]

Millennium Theatre productions include:

• Noah - The Musical: 1998–2001, 2004, 2013
• The Miracle of Christmas: 1998–2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
• Daniel: 2002–2003, 2008
• Ruth: 2005–2006
• In the Beginning: 2007–2009
• Behold The Lamb: 1999–2001, 2004–2006, 2009
• Joseph: 2010–2011, 2015
• Jonah: 2012, 2017
• Moses: 2014–2015
• Samson: 2016
• Jesus: 2018-2019
• Queen Esther: 2020-2021

Local Acts [edit]

• Amish Outlaws
• Baronial Burns Red
• Denison Witmer
• The Innocence Mission

Sports [edit]

Guild	League	Sport	Venue	Capacity	Founded	Championships
Lancaster Barnstormers	ALPB	Baseball	Clipper Magazine Stadium	6,000	2005	(two) 2006, 2014
Pennsylvania Classics AC	NPSL	Men's soccer	Georgelis Law Firm Stadium (Landisville)	2,000	2021
Lancaster Inferno FC	UWS	Women'southward soccer	Crusader Stadium	500	2008
Lancaster Lions	ABA	Basketball	Ephrata Recreation Eye (Ephrata)	200	2020
Cerise Rose Thunder	ABA	Basketball	Warwick High School (Lititz)	200	2019

Baseball [edit]

The Barnstormers played their inaugural flavor in 2005, filling Lancaster'southward 44-yr flow without professional person baseball since the demise of the Red Roses. Their master Atlantic League rival is the Revolution from nearby York.

Lancaster is the hometown of Major League Baseball alumnus Tom Herr. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals for a majority of his career. He also played for the Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, and the San Francisco Giants . Herr subsequently coached the Hempfield High School Blackness Knights baseball squad for several years. He likewise managed the Lancaster Barnstormers in their get-go flavour. In 2006, Herr led the club to their get-go-ever Atlantic League championship over the Bridgeport Bluefish.

Cycling [edit]

The Lancaster Wheel Gild hosts an annual Covered Span Metric Century bicycle race. In 2010, more than 2,500 riders participated.^[68]

The city of Lancaster hosted the Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic, an international, professional bicycle racing event held each June since 1992. Information technology was part of the 2006–2007 UCI America Bout and the 2007 U.s. Cycling Professional Tour.

Golf [edit]

Professional golf is well represented past the Professional Golf Association's Jim Furyk. He placed 4th in the 1998 and 2003 Masters tournament, won the 2003 U.S. Open, placed fourth in the 1997, 1998, and 2006 British Open, and placed sixth in the 1997 PGA championship. Furyk likewise won the Vardon Bays in 2006. He is an alumnus of Manheim Township High School, located in the firsthand suburb of Manheim Township.

The 2015 U.Due south. Women'south Open up was held at the Lancaster Country Club.^[69]

Soccer [edit]

Lancaster has both a men'south and a women'due south semi-professional soccer gild. Pennsylvania Classics Air-conditioning play in the National Premier Soccer League, a fourth-tier in the American soccer pyramid. Lancaster Inferno FC play in United Women'south Soccer, a second-tier league. Both clubs play their domicile games at Crusader Stadium on the campus of Lancaster Catholic Loftier School. The city also has an amateur team called Lancaster Urban center FC that plays other regional clubs in the United Soccer League of Pennsylvania.

Field hockey [edit]

In 2013, U.s. Field Hockey appear their intentions to movement their national training center for the The states women'south national field hockey team to Lancaster County. They signed with Spooky Nook Sports through 2022 afterwards searching for many years for a northeastern site.^[70]

Amateur sports in Lancaster [edit]

Lancaster's suburban area hosts several amateur sports teams. Ice hockey is represented past the Central Penn Panthers, a member of the junior-level Atlantic Metropolitan Hockey League, and both the Lancaster Firebirds, and Regency Panthers youth amateur ice hockey organisation of the Us Hockey'southward Atlantic District.^{[71] [72]} American football game is represented by the Lancaster Lightning, a fellow member of the semi-professional person Due north American Football League, that plays in nearby Kinzers. A close cousin of American football, rugby, is represented by the Roses Rugby Football Lodge of the Mid Atlantic Rugby Football game Union, of which the Roses RFC were the 2005 champions. Roller derby is represented by the Dutchland Derby Rollers, an all-female roller derby team which plays to raise money for diverse charities,^[73] and is currently ranked #23 in the globe by Derby News Network.^[74]

Historical Lancaster teams [edit]

The Lancaster Crimson Roses of the Eastern Professional Baseball League are the most well-known of Lancaster's defunct teams. They played from 1906 to 1909, and from 1940 to their terminal season in 1961. The Red Roses were called the "Lancaster Maroons" from 1896 to 1899 and the "Lancaster Cerise Sox" in 1932.

The "Lancaster Ruby Roses" was also the proper noun of a basketball franchise in the Continental Basketball Association (at that fourth dimension, the Eastern Professional person Basketball League) from 1946 to 1949, and from 1953 to 1955. The CBA later hosted another Lancaster team chosen the Lightning from 1981 to 1985. The Lightning afterward moved to Rockford, Illinois, where they played until the 2007 flavor. The Storm of the Eastern Basketball Alliance played from 1997 to 2000, winning the league championship in 1999. The last professional basketball team to call Lancaster dwelling house was the Freedom, who played as a member of the now-defunct Global Professional person Basketball game League in 2009.

Inventions and firsts [edit]

• The Conestoga wagon was first built in Lancaster, used extensively for migrations before the development of the railroad.
• The first Pennsylvania Rifle was created by Martin Meylin in the 1700s.
• Peeps, an Easter confection shaped as marshmallow chicks covered with yellowish sugar, were invented by the Rodda Candy Company of Lancaster in the 1920s. In 1953, Rodda was purchased past Sam Born, the Russian immigrant who invented ice cream "jimmies", and product was moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
• The commencement bombardment-powered lookout, the Hamilton Electric 500, was released in 1957 by the Hamilton Watch Company.

Pedagogy [edit]

Education in Lancaster is provided past many private and public institutions. The School District of Lancaster runs the metropolis'due south public schools. Established in 1836, information technology is the second oldest school commune in Pennsylvania.^[75]

The local high school campuses are McCaskey and McCaskey East. Lancaster Catholic High School has a long history in the canton; it was founded in 1926. It currently falls under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Harrisburg. With a P-12 enrollment of more than 500 students, Lancaster Country Twenty-four hour period School is 1 of the region'due south largest independent nonsectarian schools. Founded in 1908 as the Shippen School for Girls, the schoolhouse became coeducational and relocated from downtown Lancaster to its Hamilton Road accost in 1949. La Academia Partnership Charter Schoolhouse, opened in 1998, serves grades 6–12. It is the simply public charter school in Lancaster County, and is open to any student residing in the canton. Manheim Township School Commune is a four-year public high school located in Lancaster. It is the only high schoolhouse in the Manheim Township School District. It is supported by a 7th and 8th grade middle school, a 5th and 6th course intermediate school, and five elementary schools.

In 2008, Manheim Township Loftier Schoolhouse was named ane of the top 505 high schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. It is also known for graduating professional golfer Jim Furyk.

On May 13, 2015, Lancaster City was named by GoodCall equally the number ane best urban center in the country to be a teacher.^[76] The top 10 list was based on boilerplate annual teacher bacon, available didactics jobs, teaching jobs per capita, high school graduation rates, price of living and civilities. Data was gathered from the U.S. Demography, Indeed.com, the National Center for Education Statistics, and WalkScore.com.

The Lancaster area hosts several colleges and universities, including Consolidated School of Business organisation, Franklin & Marshall Higher, Lancaster General Higher of Nursing & Health Sciences, Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster Bible College, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Central Pennsylvania Higher, Elizabethtown College and the Harrisburg Area Customs College.

Media [edit]

Impress [edit]

• LNP, the county'south predominant newspaper
• La Voz Hispana, the city's Spanish-language edition
• Sun News, the county's weekly edition
• Fly Magazine, Lancaster City's Downtown Guide
• Fine Living Lancaster, a regional lifestyle magazine

Television [edit]

Television receiver stations
Call messages	Channel	Network	Location	Possessor
WGAL 8	8.1	NBC	Lancaster	Hearst Corporation
WGAL–DT2	8.2	MeTV	Lancaster	Hearst Corporation
TeleCentro Tv set	Comcast 949	Public admission	Lancaster	Spanish American Civic Clan

Lancaster is part of the Harrisburg-Lancaster-York market. In addition to WGAL and TeleCentro TV, the city is served by CBS/MyNetworkTV/CW affiliate WHP-Boob tube 21, ABC affiliate WHTM-Telly 27, PBS member station WITF-Telly 33, and Fox affiliate WPMT 43. WPMT is based in York, while the other major stations are based in Harrisburg.

Radio stations [edit]

Nearby cities [edit]

• York, Pennsylvania
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• Reading, Pennsylvania
• Lebanese republic, Pennsylvania

Notable people [edit]

• James Buchanan, the nation's 15th president, trained every bit a lawyer in Lancaster.^[77]
• Maria Louise Kirk (1860–1938), painter and illustrator, was born here.^[78]
• Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800), merchant, soldier, and political leader^[79]
• Thaddeus Stevens, congressman and abolitionist^[80]
• Charlotte White (1782–1863), the start unmarried American female overseas missionary, was born in Lancaster.^[81]
• Anna Diller Starbuck (1868-1929) composer and pianist
• Adam Cole, Professional wrestler currently signed to AEW^{[82] [83]}
• Taylor Kinney, Histrion
• Chloe Cherry, Extra, Model

See besides [edit]

• List of people from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Farther reading [edit]

• Alexander, Brian (2017). Glass Business firm: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN9781250085801. OCLC 947146034.
  • Interview with the author: "'Drinking glass House' Chronicles the Precipitous Pass up of an All-American Factory Town". Fresh Air. NPR. February half dozen, 2017. Retrieved February vii, 2017.
• Lottie G. Bausman, A Bibliography of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1745–1912. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies, 1917.
• Frank Ried Diffenderffer, The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster Canton and Metropolis. Lancaster, PA: The New Era, 1905.
• H. M. J. Klein, Lancaster's Aureate Century, 1821–1921: A Chronicle of Men and Women Who Planned and Toiled to Build a City Strong and Beautiful. Lancaster, PA: Hager and Brother, 1921.
• The Lancaster Farmer: A Monthly Newspaper. Vol. i (1869) | Vol. two (1870) | Vol. 3 (1871) | Vol. iv (1872) | Vol. five (1873) | Vol. 6 (1874) | Vol. vii (1875) | Vol. 8 (1876) | Vol. 9 (1877) | Vol. x (1878) | Vol. 11 (1879) | Vol. 12 (1880) | Vol. xiii (1881) | Vol. fourteen (1882) | Vol. fifteen (1883) | Vol. xvi (1885)
• Dave Pidgeon, "Battle Over City Projection Moves to Courtroom", Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, PA), July 13, 2006.
• William Riddle, One Hundred And Fifty Years of School History in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lancaster, PA: William Riddle, 1905.
• Israel Daniel Rupp, History of Lancaster and York Counties. n.c.: n.p., 1845.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Official Lancaster metropolis events website
• Official Tourism Bureau: Discover Lancaster website
• PA Dutch Country Welcome Heart website
• Lancaster, Pennsylvania at Curlie

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