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Feb 22, 2022 · Lancaster County should have moved to second class A after the 2010 Census, which showed its population surpassing the 500,000 threshold. But the county’s elected leaders at the time resisted.
Feb 17, 2018 · Lancaster County officially became a county May 10, 1729, and the border between the two was established. “We have to go back and try to figure out where that land was on a contemporary map...
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5 days ago · The settlers of the Conestoga region petitioned for the creation of a new county on February 6, 1728/9, citing the impracticality of administering such a densely populated area from a distant county seat in Chester—some eighty to one hundred miles away.
Mar 9, 2022 · Lancaster: Bedford 1771, Northumberland 1772, Franklin 1784, Mifflin 1789, Perry 1820 Dauphin: 1785 Mar 04 Details: Lancaster: Lebanon 1813 Delaware: 1789 Sep 26 Details: Chester: none Elk: 1843 Apr 18 Details: Jefferson, Clearfield, McKean: Cameron 1860 Erie: 1800 Mar 12 Details: Allegheny (Attached to Crawford Co. for several years.) none ...
Lancaster County was part of Chester County, Pennsylvania, until May 10, 1729, when it was organized as the colony's fourth county. It was named after the city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England, the native home of John Wright , an early settler. [18]
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Dec 22, 2021 · Lancaster County did so in late 2011. A decade later, reforms to the county code have resolved those earlier concerns. Still, there would be some mandatory changes if Lancaster County becomes a 2A county, Solicitor Jackie Pfursich told the county commissioners at their Tuesday work session.
The area that was to become Lancaster County began to take shape after the turmoil of the Revolution. A law was passed in 1785 that provided for periodic courts within each of the thirty four newly created counties with in
