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According to Central Market’s 1889 rules, dogs were not allowed inside. The cost for violating this rule was $10.
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Earl Rebman’s scrap drive accumulated 1,000 tons for the war effort on September 13, 1942.
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Lancaster General Hospital admitted its first patient on December 18, 1893.
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McCaskey High School track star Barney Ewell won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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In 1882, Abe Buzzard and seven other prisoners tunneled in to the Lancaster County Prison’s chicken coop to make their escape.
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Lancaster became the capitol of the United States for one day on September 27, 1777.
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The movie Beloved was filmed at Landis Valley Farm Museum in 1998.
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The great train wreck of 1919 earned the nickname “The Kidney Wreck” because its cargo of meat products were strewn throughout nearby fields as a result of the crash.
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The Slumbering Order of Hibernating Governors (ie. the Groundhogs) was founded by George Hensel in Quarryville in 1908.
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Milton Hershey’s first successful candy company got its start in Lancaster and was aptly named the Lancaster Caramel Company.
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Room, board, and tuition cost $34 for a three month term at Lancaster County Normal School in 1855.
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Lancaster City’s first female police officer, Agnes Ferriter, served on the force from 1923 to 1946.
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Early boxing matches were held at the Fulton Opera House, now the Fulton Theatre.
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Cocalico Township took its name from a Native American term meaning “den of serpents.”
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John Philip Sousa and his band performed at Conestoga Park on June 30, 1893.
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The nickname for the long cigars, “stogies,” came from the Conestoga Wagons which originated in Lancaster County.
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Presidential hopeful Theodore Roosevelt made a stop in Lancaster while campaigning for the Bull Moose Party in April 1912.
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The neighborhood of Lancaster’s Eighth Ward is known by the nickname “Cabbage Hill.”
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Armor Frey established Turkey Hill Dairy in 1931.
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Sturgis Pretzel Bakery—America’s first commercial pretzel bakery—was founded by Julius Sturgis in 1861.