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Adamstown was initially founded on July 4, 1761, by William Addams on the site of a former village of Native Americans, and Addams named the community Addamsburry.The community was incorporated as a borough on April 2, 1850, [4] following the passage of a bill by the Pennsylvania General Assembly that was introduced by Representative Joseph Konigmacher the previous month. [5]
The Kagerise Store and House, also known as the Harting's Store, is an historic, American commercial building and residence located in Adamstown in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Antiques Roadshow Market Warriors is an American reality television series that follows four professional antiquers as they buy assigned items at flea markets and antique shows on a budget . The items are then sold at auction , where the antiquers compete for the highest profit , which is most often determined by the lowest loss.
Hat making was, for many years, a major industry in Lancaster and Berks County where Adamstown is located. Bollman Hat Company became one of the best known hat makers in the region, supplying hat bodies (the unshaped felted wool cones) to hat makers up and down the east coast. Over time they bought out the majority of the other hat makers in ...
Stoudt's Brewery was a microbrewery and restaurant located in the Lancaster County borough of Adamstown. It was one of the commonwealth's first microbreweries, having been started in 1987 by Ed and Carol Stoudt. [1] The brewery closed in 2020, after Carol Stoudt's retirement.
Founded in 1982 and featured in FX's "Pose," the House of Xtravaganza is one of the most legendary houses in the New York City underground ballroom scene.
An Antique toy show is one of several toy shows held throughout the United States (and around the world), usually on an annual basis, that is devoted to the exhibition, for sale, of antique toys, dolls and collectible paraphernalia. Toy shows are generally regional in nature, and cater to a certain geographic area of the country.
In 2000, they co-authored a book on antique furniture with Joan Barzilay Freund, Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture. Leigh opened his own antique dealership in New York City in 1986 and for a number of years Leslie headed the American furniture and decorative arts division at Sotheby's .