Bronze tablet at 123 North Prince Street, Lancaster. Andrew Ellicott lived here from 1801 until 1813 while he was secretary of the Pennsylvania Land Office. At that time Lancaster was the capital of Pennsylvania. Mathematician, astronomer and surveyor, it was he who completed the layout of Washington, DC.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.