Bronze tablet on the house at 215 East Orange Street in Lancaster. This was the home of Christopher Marshall (born 1709, died 1795). He resided here from 1777 to 1781. He was a celebrated Philadelphia apothecary and famous for his diary which he kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the Revolutionary War. Monument erected in 1927.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
The Shober House, one of Lancaster's historic taverns built in 1765 at northwest corner of North Queen and Orange Streets. It was demolished in 1897 to make way for YMCA building built in 1901. This building in turn was razed in 1968 to become site of what was later the Hamilton Bank.
First Reformed Church, 40 East Orange Street at Christian Street, taken before 1866. St. Paul's Reformed Church at the white steeple in the background was then on the South side of Orange at Duke Street, now the location of the County Court House.
Walter A. Buckius, left, proprietor, stands with city police officer, Ike Rittenhouse, center, and a bartender in front of Buckius Cafe. The cafe was located on corner of West Orange and North Water Streets. Now the Tally Ho.
