Category: History


  • My Name is Burr, Sir

    Many of the covered bridges in Lancaster County utilize an architectural style called the “Burr Truss” or “Burr Arch-Truss”. It’s…


  • Peter Bezaillon

    This is the third installment on the topic of the early fur traders that operated in Lancaster County. The first…


  • Martin Chartier

      This is the second installment on my series about the fur traders that had some connection to the area…


  • Jacques LeTort

       During the seventeenth century continuing into the eighteenth, the fur trade was big business among the Swedish, Dutch, French,…