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Lancaster's bid for the national capital

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Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Date of Publication
1898
surveyed in 1786 and 1787 by me, William Reichenbach, in a manner as engineers use to take up special maps of coun- ties, by compass and watch." The original map, of which the above is a reduced fac-simile, is now in the collections of the Linnaean Society of this county. �14 Hatters, 36 Shoemakers, 4
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Responsibility
read by S. M. Sener, Esq.
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1898
Physical Description
238-243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 8
Summary
This journal article contains a letter written by John Hubley, an attorney in Lancaster, PA,in 1789. It is a proposal for Lancaster to be considered as the capital of the new government. It presents details of the geography, the community , industry and what he considers to be the assets Lancaster would have as a capital. It is very detailed and gives an interesting picture of the city.
Subjects
Capitals (Cities)
Lancaster (Pa.) - Capital and capitol.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 2, number 8 (1898), p. 238-243Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.2
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