Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
1895 - Lancaster

Lancaster, a city, the capital of Lancaster co, Pa., is situated near the W. bank of Conestoga Creek, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 69 miles W. of Philadelphia, 36 miles B.S.E. of Harrisburg, and 42 miles S.W. of Reading. It is connected with Reading by a branch of the Reading & Columbia Railroad, and a narrow-gauge railroad connects it with Quarryville. The houses are mostly built of brick, and the streets are generally straight, and cross one another at right angles. Two main streets, named King and Queen, intersect each other in the central part of the city. This city is lighted "gas, and is supplied with water conveyed from Conestoga Creek. It is the seat of Franklin and Marshall College (German Reformed), which was organized in 1853 and has a library of 13,000 volumes. The other most remark able buildings are the court-house, in the Grecian style, the county prison, Fulton Hall, in which public assemblies are held, St. Joseph's Hospital (Catholic), and the high school. Lancaster contains 26 churches (viz., 1 Baptist, 3 Catholic, 2 Episcopal, 3 German Reformed, 5 Lutheran, 4 Methodist, 1 £ 1 Moravian, 1 Jewish, and 1 Presbyterian), several public libraries, 3 national banks, 4 other banking-houses, a theological seminary of the German Reformed church, 2 Catholic academies, and printing offices which issue 3 daily and 7 weekly newspapers, also 3 monthly papers devoted to religion, agriculture, &c. The city has 6 large cotton-mills, several tanneries, breweries, and potteries, a rolling-mill, a stereotype-foundry, and manufactures of carriages, farming-implements, iron castings, copper kettles, engines and boilers, furniture, cabinet organs, combs, leather, hats, watches, paper, edge-tools, files, bricks, rifles, soap, screws, chains, locks, &c. Lancaster is surrounded by a rich and beautiful country which surpasses all other parts of the state in the production of wheat. It has a large trade in tobacco, for the accommodation of which extensive warehouses have been recently erected. This place was first settled in 1728 or 1730, and was incorporated as a city in 1818. It was the capital of the state from 1799 to 1812. Pop., in 1840, 8417; in 1860, 17,603; in 1870, 20,233; in 1880, 25,769; in 1890, 32,011.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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