Memorial tablet of marble, commemorating visits of Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott Hancock and Theodore Roosevelt to the old Caldwell House. This was a popular hotel on the southeast corner of North Queen Street and East Chestnut Streets. This tablet was placed in the lobby of the first Hotel Brunswick (on the site of the Caldwell House). It was the gift of the Honorable W. U. Hensel, attorney and historian of the Historical Society, of which he was a founding member. Erected in 1915.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Memorial pillar and tablet at 320 East Ross Street, Lancaster, marking the site of the country home of the Honorable George Ross (1730 - 1779), colonial statesman and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Erected 1897.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Memorial tablet at the birthplace of Robert Fulton (1765 - 1815) in Fulton Township, honoring him as the first man to apply steam to navigation successfully.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Boulder and bronze tablet at the Brick Mennonite Church near Willow Street, the first permanent white settlement by Swiss Mennonites within the borders of Lancaster County, in the year 1710. Erected in 1910.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Monument of granite at Christiana in commemoration of the riot of 1851 and the resultant treason trials. The event known as the "Christiana Resistance" was engendered when southern slave owners came to Lancaster County in search of runaway slaves. Erected in 1911.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.