Road sign with graffiti and geodesic dome house in background, near intersection of Briar Hill Road and Rothsville Road. Photo taken for the Pennsylvania School of the Arts History of the Future Project.
Bronze tablet on the house known as Wheatland on Marietta Avenue in Lancaster. The Honorable James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, bought Wheatland. He lived there from his retirement in 1848 until his death in 1868. Tablet erected in 1928.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Bronze tablet on the house of the D. Paul Hershey farm on Newport Road in Warwick Township. Count Nicholas Zinzendorf, founder of the modern Moravian Church, preached here in December of 1742. He also named the nearby Moravian town Lititz after the barony of Lititz in Bohemia in 1752. Tablet erected in 1936.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Bronze tablet on the south wall of the Willson Memorial Building, home of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 230 North President Avenue. The tablet honors Mrs. Louise Tanger, an active member of the Society as well as a recognized naturalist. It was she who founded the arboretum on the grounds. Erected in 1981.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.