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Lancaster, Pennsylvania. / 40.03972°N 76.30444°W / 40.03972; -76.30444. Lancaster ( / ˈlæŋkɪstər / LANG-ki-stər) is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest inland cities in the United States. [4] With a population of 58,039 at the 2020 census, [5] it is the tenth-most-populous city ...
Lancaster County Anabaptist community founded in c. 1760, has the world's largest Amish settlement, with 37,000 people in 220 church districts in 2017, or about 7% of the county's population. By 2021 the Amish population increased to almost 42,000.
The company was named after Andrew Hamilton (lawyer), a Scottish born attorney who laid out and founded Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was the original owner of the Lancaster site on which the factory was situated. During the expansion of the railroads in the U.S., Hamilton maintained over 56% of the market.
Founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, F&M's early years were bilingual between German and English, serving the local Pennsylvania Dutch community. Originally founded as the German College and Charity School, Franklin College received its charter in 1787 from the Pennsylvania General Assembly as a German-language alternative to the University of ...
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell, originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, ... where it met at the Lancaster courthouse on Saturday, ... PA. [self-published ...
Designated. September 23, 1946 [7] Harrisburg ( / ˈhærɪsˌbɜːrɡ /, Pennsylvania German: Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 50,135 as of 2021, Harrisburg is the ninth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg is situated on the east ...
The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760 near Churchtown [1] is the oldest Amish settlement that is still in existence.