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English: This is a locator map showing Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
The area that became Lancaster County was part of William Penn's 1681 charter. [8] John Kennerly received the first recorded deed from Penn in 1691. [9] Although Matthias Kreider was said to have been in the area as early as 1691, there is no evidence that any Europeans settled in Lancaster County before 1710.
A PA 23 freeway was proposed east of Lancaster in the 1960s, and parts of the road were built before construction stopped. The road was turned over to farmers and is known as the "Goat Path". A two-lane bypass of PA 23 east of Lancaster was later proposed before being shelved in 2010.
Lancaster (/ ˈ l æ ŋ k ɪ s t ər / LANG-kih-stər) is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. [4] With a population of 58,039 at the 2020 census , [ 5 ] it is the tenth-most populous city in the state. [ 6 ]
1911 map of Pennsylvania Railroad "Lines East" including Lancaster County The turn of the century, however, was principally marked by the construction of the PRR's Atglen and Susquehanna Branch . This was part of the PRR's "Low-Grade Lines" project, which aimed to provide low- grade (slope) routes for freight which would bypass the congestion ...