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Lancaster is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania which serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and one of the oldest inland towns in the United States. With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities. The Lancaster metropolitan area population is 507,766, making it the 101st largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and second largest in the South Central Pennsylvania area.The city's primary industries include healthcare, tourism, public administration, manufacturing, and both professional and semi-professional services. Lancaster hosts more electronic public CCTV outdoor cameras per capita than...
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  • 1. Landis Valley Museum Lancaster
    Henry Kinzer Landis was an editor, photographer, collector, and founder of the Landis Valley Museum in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Landis was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Henry Harrison Landis , a farmer, and Emma Caroline Diller , daughter of a prosperous farmer, in 1865. Henry was one of four children—George Diller , Nettie May , and Anna Margaretta, who died early in childhood. The Landis family was historically typical Pennsylvania Dutch, originating as Swiss Mennonite folk with the earliest Landis antecedent living twelve miles south of Zurich, Switzerland in 1438. To escape religious persecution, in 1717, three Landis brothers—John, Jacob, and Felix—fled Switzerland. Jacob and Felix Landis established themselves in Lancaster County, Pennsylvan...
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  • 3. The Lancaster Science Factory Lancaster
    Pennsylvania ( ; PEN-sil-VAYN-yuh, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The Commonwealth is bordered by Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to the northwest, New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east. Pennsylvania is the 33rd-largest state by area, and the 6th-most populous state according to the last official U.S. Census count in 2010. It is the 9th-most densely populated of the 50 states. Pennsylvania's two most populous cities are Philadelphia , and Pittsburgh . The state capital and its 10th largest city is Harrisburg. Pennsylv...
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  • 4. Hands-on House Lancaster
    Lancaster is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, in the south central part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 38,780. The city is located near the Hocking River, approximately 33 miles southeast of Columbus and is the county seat of Fairfield County.
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  • 6. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Lancaster
    Lancaster County locally , sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the south central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 519,445. Its county seat is Lancaster.Lancaster County comprises the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a part of Philadelphia's Designated Media Market. The County of Lancaster is a popular tourist destination, with its Amish community a major attraction. The Dutch of Pennsylvania Dutch is the English form of Düütsch, the Low German cognate of Standard German Deutsch and Pennsylvania Dutch Deitsch. The ancestors of the Amish began to immigrate to colonial Pennsylvania in the early 18th century to take advantage of the religious freedo...
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  • 7. Rough and Tumble Historical Association Lancaster
    The Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association puts on the second- or third-oldest Threshermen’s Reunion in the United States. It is held in the middle of August each year, from Wednesday through Saturday, in Kinzers, Pennsylvania, about eight miles east of the city of Lancaster. The association’s name is taken from the 1890s book Rough and Tumble Engineering: Book of Instructions for Operators of Farm and Traction Engines by James H. Maggard.
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  • 8. Demuth Museum Lancaster
    Charles Henry Buckius Demuth was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism. Search the history of American art, wrote Ken Johnson in The New York Times, and you will discover few watercolors more beautiful than those of Charles Demuth. Combining exacting botanical observation and loosely Cubist abstraction, his watercolors of flowers, fruit and vegetables have a magical liveliness and an almost shocking sensuousness.Demuth was a lifelong resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The home he shared with his mother is now the Demuth Museum, which showcases his work. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall Academy before studying at Drexel University and at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While he was a stu...
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  • 9. The Getty Villa Malibu
    The Getty Villa is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA, the Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD, including the Lansdowne Heracles and the Victorious Youth. The UCLA/Getty Master's Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation is housed on this campus. The collection is documented and presented through the online GettyGuide as well as through audio tours.
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  • 10. Ohio Glass Museum Lancaster Ohio
    Lancaster is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, in the south central part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 38,780. The city is located near the Hocking River, approximately 33 miles southeast of Columbus and is the county seat of Fairfield County.
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  • 12. The Georgian Museum Lancaster Ohio
    This is a list of open-air and living history museums in the United States.
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  • 13. Antelope Valley Indian Museum Lancaster California
    Antelope Valley is located in northern Los Angeles County, California, and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated between the Tehachapi and the San Gabriel Mountains. The valley was named for the pronghorns that roamed there until they were all but eliminated in the 1880s by bad weather and subsequent fur hunting. The principal cities in the Antelope Valley are Palmdale and Lancaster.
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  • 15. The Western Hotel Museum Lancaster California
    This is a list of hotels in the United States, both current and defunct, organized by state. The list includes highly rated luxury hotels, skyscraper rated buildings, and historic hotels. It is not a directory of every chain or independent hotel building in the United States.
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