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Lancaster County was named after the city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England, the native home of John Wright, one of the early settlers.
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In 1824, Jackson wrote a letter saying that he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, South Carolina.
Lancaster was cremated and his ashes were buried under a large oak tree in Westwood Memorial Park located in Westwood Village, Los Angeles County, California.
He was born on November 24, 1818 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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* Establishment of Wright's Ferry under the authority of the Province of Pennsylvania triggers Cresap's War – a nine year long conflict also known as the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute – the conflict mainly centered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and York County, Pennsylvania on either banks of the Susquehanna River.
* Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war.
* 4-H Embryology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Lancaster County
He later resided in Lancaster County, Virginia and was on staff in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Category: People from Lancaster County, Virginia
Lancaster ( local pronunciation is ( or even ), rather than the wider American pronunciation-kast-ər ) is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States.
Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.
* The 1948 20th Century Fox movie Green Grass of Wyoming was filmed at the Fairfield County Fairground in Lancaster, making it the first community in Ohio to act as the setting for a feature length Hollywood movie.
* Lancaster is home to the Fairfield County Fair, a week-long fair and the last ( 88th ) county fair in Ohio each year, always on the second week of October.
Once one has reached the top, there is a lookout area from which one can see over great distances, and take in not just a panoramic view of the nearby Fairfield County fairgrounds and much of the city of Lancaster, but the changing landscape of Central Ohio as well — from the relatively flat farmlands north of Lancaster to the wooded hills lying south of the city.
Opened in 2002, the Ohio Glass Museum is located in historic downtown Lancaster and dedicated to recording the history of the glass industry, which for over 100 years has been one of the mainstays of the economy of Fairfield County.
The River Brethren owe their origins to the combined labors of Reformed pastor Philip William Otterbein and Mennonite Martin Boehm, beginning in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the latter half of the 18th century.
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* Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ( north )
* Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ( northeast )
Lancaster County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.
Lancaster County is part of the Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Lancaster County was represented by the prefix 2 ( it had the second-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).
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Backman was formerly manager of the Class A California League Lancaster JetHawks, one of the Diamondbacks ' minor-league affiliates.
The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.
The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.
Burton Stephen " Burt " Lancaster ( November 2, 1913-October 20, 1994 ) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile ( which he called " The Grin ").
Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960.
Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents ' home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza.
Lancaster was the son of Elizabeth ( née Roberts ) and James Henry Lancaster, who was a postman.
Lancaster grew up in East Harlem and spent much of his time on the streets, where he developed great interest and skill in gymnastics while attending the DeWitt Clinton High School, where he was a basketball star.
Lancaster was accepted into New York University with an athletic scholarship but subsequently dropped out.
Lancaster sought demanding roles, and if he liked a part or a director, he was prepared to work for much lower pay than he might have earned elsewhere.
Lancaster was an early and successful actor / producer.
The Midnight Man was in fact starred in, co-written, produced, and directed by Lancaster.
The connection was firmly cemented by the time Lancaster and Douglas reteamed for their final movie, Tough Guys.
Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.
Lancaster was a vocal supporter of liberal political causes, and frequently spoke out in support of racial minorities, including at the March on Washington in 1963.
The 120-page book, first published in the United States and then in Britain, was illustrated by Osbert Lancaster and became an instant best seller.
Attlee was given Mosley's post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.
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In 1999, the American Film Institute named Lancaster 19th among the greatest male stars of all time.
He also has a building named after him at Lancaster University.
* June 6 – Franklin College, named for Benjamin Franklin, opens in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Fulton Hall, named after Robert Fulton, Lancaster County's steam engine pioneer, was built on the foundation of Lancaster's pre-Revolutionary jail.
This station was formerly named Lancaster Castle railway station in order to differentiate it from Lancaster Green Ayre railway station on the Leeds – Morecambe line, which closed in 1966.
Lancaster is home to SMARTAC Gym Club, http :// smartac. co. uk, specialising in acro and with a trampoline subsidiary named SMARTAC Trampoline Club.
Edmund Mortimer was the son of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, who had been named heir presumptive of Richard II, prior to the usurpation of the House of Lancaster, in the person of Henry Bolingbroke, in 1399.
They had named their county for the House of Lancaster which had opposed the House of York in the struggles of 1455-85, known as the War of the Roses.
York County was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England.
It was formed in 1772 from parts of Lancaster, Berks, Bedford, Cumberland, and Northampton Counties and named for the county of Northumberland in northern England.
Originally part of Lancaster County ( 1729 ), then Cumberland County ( 1750 ), Franklin County became an independent jurisdiction on September 9, 1784, named in honor of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
Dauphin County was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County and was named after Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France the first son of Louis XVI.
This road is still named Lancaster Avenue in most of the Chester county towns it runs through.
Lancaster was named after an official of the Soo Line, believed to have come from Lancashire County in England.
Until it was cut down due to safety concerns, Lancaster boasted the largest oak tree in the state, called the Beaman Oak, named after settler Gamaliel Beaman ( 1623 – 1677 ).
It is named after the intersection of State Street and Lancaster Drive.
The township is named for the descendants of Charles Grogan later written as " Grugan ", an Irish immigrant and American Revolution veteran from Lancaster County.
Hellam Township was named after Hallamshire, the township in England where Samuel Blunston, the magistrate of Lancaster County, was born.
The city was named after the famous House of Lancaster.
The following year, Baffin again sailed as pilot of the Discovery, sailing to the west of Greenland and north up through the Davis Strait, where he discovered the large bay to the north which now bears his name, together with the series of straits which radiate from its head and were named by him Lancaster, Smith and Jones Sounds, in honour of the patrons of his voyages.
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