Photograph- Second Oldest Hospital in the United States, built 1799 as the Lancaster County Almshouse. Now the Lancaster Youth Services building, East King Street.
Photograph- Second Oldest Hospital in the United States, built 1799 as the Lancaster County Almshouse. Now the Lancaster Youth Services building, East King Street.
Description
Second Oldest Hospital in the United States, built 1799 as the Lancaster County Almshouse. Now the Lancaster Youth Services building, East King Street.
Photograph- Bronze plaque attached to large native boulder in Lancaster County Central Park. Plaque was dedicated by the Lancaster County Park Board on the site of a Native American burial ground.
Photograph- Bronze plaque attached to large native boulder in Lancaster County Central Park. Plaque was dedicated by the Lancaster County Park Board on the site of a Native American burial ground.
Description
Lancaster County Almshouse, East King Street, Lancaster.
Page 21: View of Conestoga River; Railroad tracks; Man with two buckets on a yoke; View of countryside; Three women sitting under a tree; Two women by a creek; Lancaster County Almshouse.
Provenance
Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
