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LANCASTER , a city and the county-seat of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania
Conestoga river, 68 in. W. of Philadelphia. Pop. (190o) 41,459, of whom 3492 were foreign-born and 777 were negroes; (1910 census) 47,227. It is served by the Pennsylvania
Conestoga Traction Company, which had in 1909 a mileage of 152 M. Lancaster has a fine county court house
earned a high standing
York
Lancaster was settled about 1717 by English Quakers and Germans, was laid out as a town in 1730, incorporated as a borough in 1742, and chartered as a city in 1818. An important treaty with the Iroquois Indians was negotiated here by the governor of Pennsylvania and by commissioners from Maryland and Virginia in June 1744. Some of General Burgoyne's troops, surrendered at Saratoga, were confined here after the autumn of 1780. The Continental Congress sat here on the 27th of September 1777 after being driven from Philadelphia by the British; and subsequently, after the organization of the Federal government, Lancaster was oneof the places seriously considered when a national capital was to be chosen. From 1799 to 1812 Lancaster was the capital of Pennsylvania.End of Article: LANCASTER If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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