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12 unusual facts about Lancaster County


Alec Devon Kreider

Alec Devon Kreider (born February 4, 1991) is a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, criminal who was convicted for the three murders of a Manheim Township family on May 12, 2007.

Bahama Woodstar

In April 2013 a bird was seen for three days at a feeder in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Cocalico Bridge

Cocalico Bridge can refer to one of several bridges spanning the Cocalico Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Griffith Hughes

In June 1736, Hughes reported that because of his deteriorating health, aggravated by lengthy journeys to Caernarvon, Newtown, and Evansburg he had travelled to Barbados, stayed there for three months, and accepted a post at St. Lucy's Parish there.

Grocery Outlet

In 2011 Grocery Outlet aquired a Lancaster County based chain of stores named Amelia's Grocery Outlet.

Hugo P. Rush

Rush was born Hugo Peoples Rush in 1900 in Pequea Township, Pennsylvania.

Lancaster County, South Carolina

Jeff Twitty, professional baseball player (Kansas City Royals)

Along there in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Abraham Buford fled from Tarleton and was overtaken a few miles south of the North Carolina state line where the Patriot forces were defeated in a controversial struggle known as the Battle of Waxhaws, also known as Bufords Massacre to locals.

Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend

James Buchanan, whom Lincoln succeeded, retired to Lancaster Township; Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Kennedy succeeded, retired to Gettysburg.

Pennsylvania Auditor General election, 2008

Republican Chet Beiler, a construction executive from Penn Township, Lancaster County, was also unopposed for the Republican nomination after primary opponent Chris Walsh withdrew from the race, citing problems with his nomination petitions.

Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire is a Renaissance fair occurring over 12 weekends from early-August through late-October on the grounds of the Mount Hope Estate and Winery in Manheim, Pennsylvania.

Ron Hevener

Hevener began his career making clay souvenirs, telling stories and painting pictures for tourists at farmers' markets in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


Abraham Stouffer

Abraham Stouffer was born January 8, 1781 near Chambersburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Abraham Stauffer (1747–1809) and Barbara Hershey (1750–1795).

Arthur J. Burks

Burks moved to Paradise in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1948, where he continued to write until his death in 1974.

Bird-in-Hand Hotel

Bird-in-Hand Hotel, also known as the Bird-In-Hand Village Inn and Suites and Rhoad's Hotel, is a historic hotel located at Bird-in-Hand, East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Bowmansville Roller Mill

Bowmansville Roller Mill, also known as the Von Nieda Mill, is a historic roller mill and national historic district located at Bowmansville, Brecknock Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Claybrook Cottingham

A son of George Cottingham and the former Louise Palmer, Cottingham was born in Ottoman in Lancaster County on the Atlantic coast of Virginia.

Conrad Weiser Homestead

For six years, he lived at the monastic settlement, Ephrata Cloister, in the Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Great Minquas Path

Strasburg Road in Chester County and Lancaster County generally follows the route of the Great Minquas Path.

Henry Lapp

Henry L. Lapp, born in Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on August 18, 1862, died in Gordonville, on July 5, 1904, one of the best known carpenters-cabinetmakers of nineteenth century America.

Holtwood Arboretum

The Holtwood Arboretum over 5,000 acres (20 km²), also known as Holtwood Preserve, is a recreation area, arboretum, and wildflower preserve located on New Village Road (off Route 372), in Lancaster County, Holtwood, Pennsylvania.

Jasper Yeates House

Jasper Yeates House, also known as the home of WLPA Radio, is a historic home located at Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

John C. Jacobs

John C. Jacobs (December 16, 1838 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - September 22, 1894 Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey) was an American politician from New York.

Lancaster Country Club

The club is located outside the northeast limits of Lancaster, partly in Manheim Township and (across the Conestoga River) partly in East Lampeter Township, both in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Nebraska Democratic caucuses, 2008

His large margin of victory can be attributed to his overwhelming wins in Douglas County, which contains Omaha, where he won with 77.12 percent of the vote, as well as in Lancaster County, which contains the state capital of Lincoln and is home to the University of Nebraska.

United States presidential election in Nebraska, 2008

Obama did particularly well in the state's two most populated counties, Douglas and Lancaster.

WRFF

WRFF can be heard with a reliable signal as far as Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania to the North, Lancaster and Lebanon Counties to the West, New Jersey Shore to the East, and well into Delaware and Maryland to the South.