Articles about Lancaster City and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Every Monday morning, I feature a grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today, I am featuring a mill in the southwestern part of the county, along a small tributary of the Susquehanna River called Fishing Creek. The Drumore Mill,...
Welcome to another edition of Mill Monday! Today’s segment features the Mascot Roller Mills. The Mascot Roller Mill is located on the Mill Stream at 2900 Stumptown Road in Upper Leacock Township, Pennsylvania.
This mill figures in the memory of the writer, who grew...
It’s Monday, y’all! Each Monday morning, I will feature a water-powered grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today’s featured mill is the Smoketown Mill in East Lampeter Township.
The mill was built in 1770 by James and Deborah Gibbons along the road between...
I recently had the opportunity to walk around inside the former Stockyards Inn and photograph its interior. The building has a rich history and is going through another transition now that the popular restaurant has closed, and new investors are making plans for its future.
Welcome to Mill Monday! Each Monday morning, I will feature a water-powered grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today’s featured mill is the Maple Grove, aka Abbeville Mill in Manor township.
In 1717, one year before the death of William Penn and two...
Welcome to Mill Monday! Each Monday morning I will feature a water-powered grist mill located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Today's featured mill is the Compass Mill in Warwick Township. When the Moravian Brotherhood began laying out the new town of Lititz in 1754, landowner George Kline purchased...
This is the third installment on the topic of the early fur traders that operated in Lancaster County. The first article introduced Jacques LeTort, who with his wife, Anne, and son, James traded on the Schuylkill and later on the Susquehanna. The second article told the story...
This is the second installment on my series about the fur traders that had some connection to the area of Pennsylvania that would later become Lancaster County. These traders were the frontiersman that explored the territory and interacted with the native Americans that inhabited the area...
During the seventeenth century continuing into the eighteenth, the fur trade was big business among the Swedish, Dutch, French, and English traders. Many people wanted to get in on the action. There was intense competition between the governors of New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, each wanting...
Henry E. Leman was born in Lancaster on March 8, 1812, the eighth child of Jacob and Catherine Leman. Jacob served with the Pequea Rangers during the Revolutionary War. Jacob’s father, Henry’s grandfather, was Daniel Leman who was a...
