Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County (; ), sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most populous county. Its county seat is also Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lancaster. Lancaster County comprises the Lancaster metropolitan statistical area. Lancaster County is a tourist destination with its Amish community being a major attraction. The ancestors of the Amish began to immigrant, immigrate to colonial Pennsylvania in the early 18th century to take advantage of the freedom of religion, religious freedom offered by William Penn, as well as the area's rich soil and mild climate. They were joined by French Huguenots fleeing the Edict of Fontainebleau, religious persecution of Louis XIV. There were also significant numbers of English, Welsh and Ulster S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lancaster County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)
The Lancaster County Courthouse is an historic, American courthouse building that is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and is a contributing property to the Lancaster Historic District. History and architectural features The original building was built between 1852 and 1855 and was designed by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan (1815–1884). The north wing was added between 1896 and 1898; the low flanking wings on either side of the exterior staircase were added between 1926 and 1927. These later additions were designed by Lancaster architects James H. Warner and C. Emlen Urban, respectively. It is an important example of the Romanesque Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and is a contributing property In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ulster Scots People
The Ulster Scots people or Scots-Irish are an ethnic group descended largely from Lowland Scottish people, Scottish and Northern English people, English settlers who moved to the northern province of Ulster in Ireland mainly during the 17th century. There is an Ulster Scots dialect of the Scots language. Historically, there have been considerable population exchanges between Ireland and Scotland over the millennia. This group are found mostly in the province of Ulster; their ancestors were Protestant settlers who migrated from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England during the Plantation of Ulster, which was a Plantation (settlement or colony), planned process of colonisation following the Tudor conquest of Ireland. The largest numbers came from Ayrshire, Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, county Durham, Durham, Lanarkshire, Northumberland, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Yorkshire and, to a lesser extent, from the Scottish Highlands. Ulster Scots people, displaced throug ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gawanese
The Piscataway or Piscatawa , are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. They spoke Algonquian Piscataway, a regional dialect similar to Nanticoke. The neighboring Haudenosaunee, called them the Conoy, with whom they partly merged with after a massive decline of population and rise in colonial violence following two centuries of interactions with European settlers. Two major groups that represent Piscataway descendants received state recognition as Native American tribes from Maryland in 2012: the Piscataway Indian Nation and Piscataway Conoy Tribe. Within the latter group was included the Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes and the Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians. All these groups descend from the Western Bank of the Chesapeake, spanning across Maryland, Virginia, D.C, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and are primarily located in Southern Maryland. None are federally recognized despite over a half-century tribal movement in being recognized as st ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Susquehannock
The Susquehannock, also known as the Conestoga, Minquas, and Andaste, were an Iroquoian Peoples, Iroquoian people who lived in the lower Susquehanna River watershed in what is now Pennsylvania. Their name means “people of the muddy river.” The Susquehannock were first described by John Smith (explorer), John Smith, who explored the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay in 1608. The Susquehannocks were active in the North American fur trade, fur trade and established close trading relationships with Colony of Virginia, Virginia, New Sweden, and New Netherland. They were in conflict with Province of Maryland, Maryland until a treaty was negotiated in 1652, and were the target of intermittent attacks by the Iroquois, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). By the 1670s, their population had declined sharply as a result of disease and war. The Susquehannock abandoned their town on the Susquehanna River and moved south into Province of Maryland, Maryland. They erected a palisaded village on Pisca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shawnee
The Shawnee ( ) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language. Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. In the 17th century, they dispersed through Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. In the early 18th century, they mostly concentrated in eastern Pennsylvania but dispersed again later that century across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, with a small group joining Muscogee people in Alabama. In the 19th century, the U.S. federal government forcibly removed them under the 1830 Indian Removal Act to areas west of the Mississippi River; these lands would eventually become the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Texas. Finally, they were removed to Indian Territory, which became the state of Oklahoma in the early 20th century. Today, Shawnee people are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes, the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Okl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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York County, Pennsylvania
York County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 456,438. Its county seat is York, Pennsylvania, York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County and named either after the James II of England, Duke of York, an early patron of the William Penn, Penn family, or for the York, city and Yorkshire, county of York in England. The county is part of the South Central Pennsylvania, South Central region of the state. York County comprises the York-Hanover, Pennsylvania, Hanover, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Pennsylvania Harrisburg–York–Lebanon combined statistical area, combined statistical area. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural regi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Northumberland County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 91,647. Its county seat is Sunbury, Pennsylvania, Sunbury. The county is part of the Central Pennsylvania region of the state. The county was formed in 1772 from parts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Berks, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Bedford, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Cumberland, and Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton Counties and named for the Counties of England, county of Northumberland in northern England. Northumberland County is a fifth class county according to the Pennsylvania's County Code. Northumberland County comprises the Sunbury, Pennsylvania Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg-Berwick, Pennsylvania, Berwick-Sunbury, PA Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Lebanon County ( ; ) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 143,257. Its county seat is the city of Lebanon. It lies 72 miles northwest of Philadelphia, which is the nearest major city. The county is part of the South Central region of the commonwealth. The county was formed from portions of Dauphin and Lancaster counties in 1813, with minor boundary revisions in 1814 and 1821. Lebanon County comprises the Lebanon metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the Harrisburg–York–Lebanon combined statistical area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water. Most of it is drained by the Swatara Creek into the Susquehanna River while some eastern portions are drained by the Tulpehocken Creek (which originates in the county near Myerstown) eastward into the Schuylkill River. It consists in large part of a valley. Climate The c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Dauphin County (; Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 286,401. The county seat is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's state capital and ninth-most populous city. The county was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County and was named after Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, the first son of Louis XVI of France, King Louis XVI. Dauphin County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located within the county is Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, site of the Three Mile Island accident, 1979 nuclear core meltdown. The nuclear power plant closed in 2019. The county is part of the South Central Pennsylvania, South Central region of the com ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Cumberland County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 259,469. Its county seat is Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Carlisle. Cumberland County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area. The county is part of the South Central Pennsylvania, South Central region of the commonwealth. History Cumberland County was first settled by a majority of Scotch-Irish Americans, Scots-Irish immigrants who arrived in approximately 1730. English people, English and Germans, German settlers constituted about ten percent of the early population. The settlers originally mostly devoted the area to farming and later developed other trades. These settlers built the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, among the oldest houses of worship in central Pennsylvania, in 1738 near present-day Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. The General Assembly (legislature) of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Berks County, Pennsylvania
Berks County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Barricks Kaundi'') is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the county's population was 428,849. The county seat is Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading, the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, fourth-most populous city in the state. The county is part of the South Central Pennsylvania, South Central region of the commonwealth. The county borders Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County to its north, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County to its north, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Lebanon and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster counties to its west, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Chester County to its south, and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County to its east. The county is approximately southwest of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown, the state's third-largest city, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Wright (businessman)
John Wright was an emigrant English pioneer, Colonial history of the United States, colonial period businessman who established Wright's Ferry (and eventually the town eponymously named for it). The resulting increase in settlement triggered nine years of armed conflict during the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute known as Cresap's War. The animal powered ferry was the very first means of crossing the broad unfriendly Susquehanna River in a region known as Conejohela Valley nearly halfway between what became Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and York County, Pennsylvania. Wright was a Quaker who first came to the area in 1724 to explore the land and preach to the local Native Americans. In 1730, he was granted a patent to operate a ferry across the river and subsequently established the ferry with Robert Barber and Samuel Blunston. He also built a ferry house and a tavern on the eastern shore of the Susquehanna, north of Locust Street, on Front Street in Wright's Ferry, as the t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |