Historic sites

Alan

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I am wondering how many of us like to visit historical sites. I enjoy learning about places and people who helped shape our world. So if you have some shots from historic places please share them here with a little info about them. I will start with The Hans Herr house in Lancaster County PA. This house was built circa 1719. The Herr's were part of the first group of families to settle in Lancaster. Eight families bought 10000 acres from the Penn family. My wife is decedent from two of these families.


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Hans Herr House

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Conestoga Wagon


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Grandson doing blacksmithing
 

Alan

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Gettysburg Civil War Battlefield. Gettysburg was fought July 1-3 1863. Ironic how Lee's army began it's retreat south on July 4th, and many of their Fathers and Grandfathers had fought for the Revolution.

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Monument to Gen Buford, where the first canon shot was fired on July 1st.

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hark

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Alan, is your wife a descendant of William Penn? If so, have you visited Pennsbury Manor? It was William Penn's home at one time.

Pennsbury Manor

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hark

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No Penn's in our tree, but that place is on our list of places to visit.

Oh...sorry! Then I misunderstood what you wrote. When I read "Penn" I thought you meant your wife was related to William Penn. Oops! :eek:
 

Alan

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Oh...sorry! Then I misunderstood what you wrote. When I read "Penn" I thought you meant your wife was related to William Penn. Oops! :eek:

No problem. A little aside Penn would only sell 10000 acres at a time because he wanted to have communities settled. At the time what is now Lancaster County was in Indian territory.
 

hark

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No problem. A little aside Penn would only sell 10000 acres at a time because he wanted to have communities settled. At the time what is now Lancaster County was in Indian territory.

Very interesting! This whole area around here was also Indian territory--Lenape Indians. Part of this area is near the Delaware River so that was important to the Indians. In fact, the photo above of Pennsbury Manor, if you were to see what was behind me, it was the river. Anyway...good luck with identifying historic places to visit. There are so many!
 
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