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Lancaster was incorporated by charter as a borough, May 1, 1942. INDIAN TREATIES AT LANCASTER. Governor Thomas held a council with the chiefs of the Delaware Indians and the Six Nations at Lancaster in 1944, where all the disputes between the whites and the Indians were settled by treaty.
Lancaster, city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. Lying in Antelope Valley at the western edge of the Mojave Desert, it is 80 miles (130 km) north of the city of Los Angeles and separated from it by the San Gabriel Mountains. In 1876, when the Southern Pacific Railroad laid tracks through the area on its route between San ...
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1876-1910: The Beginning. Credit for the early research of Lancaster and Antelope Valley history should be given to the first students of Antelope Valley Union High School. These students, eight of them, compiled in 1913 a publication, ''The Heart of the Antelope Valley''. From this booklet we have gleaned much of our 1876-1910 history of ...
Some historians state that the name ''Lancaster'' was bestowed upon the town by Mr. M.L. Wicks, a real estate developer who purchased six sections of land from the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1884 at a price of about $2.50 an acre. Prior to that date, in 1882, Mr. Wicks has started a Scottish settlement of about 150 persons in the Valley ...
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lancaster (population 56,438) was founded in 1730, following Lancaster County’s establishment in 1729. Lancaster was incorporated as a borough in 1742, and by 1760 was the largest inland town in America. On September 27, 1777, Lancaster was the nation’s capital for one day, as the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia.
Lancashire. 54°02′56″N02°48′05″W / 54.04889°N 2.80139°W. Lancaster (/ ˈlæŋkəstər /, / ˈlænkæs -/) [ 2 ] is a city [ 3 ] in Lancashire, England, and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district. The city is on the River Lune, directly inland from Morecambe Bay.
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Lancaster / ˈlæŋ.kæstər / is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 173,516, [ 7 ] making Lancaster the 153rd-most populous city in the United States and the 30th most populous in California.
