Boulder and bronze tablet on the site of Postlethwaite's Tavern on Long Lane near Rock Hill in Conestoga Township. This was the location where, in 1729, the first courts of justice in Lancaster County were held. Erected in 1915.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Lancaster's Brigadier General Daniel Strickler being sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania in 1947 by Judge William Hargest in the Senate Chamber at Harrisburg. In the background from left, Senator Weldon B. Heyburn, U.S. Senator Edward Martin, and Governor James H. Duff