Lancaster Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

• Franklin & Marshall College

  Your visit brings you to Franklin & Marshall College, the private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1787 as Franklin College and later merged with Marshall College in 1853, this institution is one of the oldest in the United States.

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  Woodward Hill Cemetery

  James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, rests in Woodward Hill Cemetery, the 32-acre garden cemetery in front of you. In October 1849 leaders of the Trinity Lutheran Church formally decided to begin the process to create a new cemetery for Lancaster County, and on October 3, 1849 they set that plan in motion.

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  Central Market

  Listen for the bustle of vendors at Central Market, also known as Lancaster Central Market, here in Penn Square. Until 2005, when it was transferred to a trust, this was the oldest municipally-operated market in the United States.

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  Fulton Opera House

  Reportedly the oldest working theatre in the United States, the Fulton Opera House, The Fulton, faces you now. This League of Regional Theatres class B regional theater sits in historic downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania and is reportedly the oldest working theatre in the United States.

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  Soldiers and Sailors Monument

  Penn Square, in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, holds the 43-foot Gothic Revival Soldiers and Sailors Monument that rises in front of you. Erected at the northeast intersection of King and Queen Streets and dedicated on July 4, 1874, it was originally meant to honor Lancastrian Union soldiers killed during the American Civil War.

All 21 stops

• Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster)

  Your visit brings you to Franklin & Marshall College, the private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

• Old Main, Goethean Hall, and Diagnothian Hall (Franklin & Marshall College)

  Your eyes meet Old Main, Goethean Hall, and Diagnothian Hall, the original buildings of Franklin & Marshall College here in Lancaster.

• North Museum of Nature and Science (Lancaster)

  Since 1953 the North Museum of Nature and Science has stood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and its facade faces you.

• William Montgomery House (Lancaster)

  Stephen Hills designed the William Montgomery House you face on South Queen Street in Lancaster.

• Demuth Museum (Lancaster Historic District)

  Charles Demuth (1883–1935) lived and worked in this house and studio at 120 East King Street, now the Demuth Museum in front of you.

• St. Mary's Church (Lancaster)

  Gothic Revival brick rises in front of you at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as Historic St. Mary's…

• Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Lancaster)

  Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, in front of you at 31 South Duke Street in Lancaster, was dedicated in 1766.

• Central Market (Penn Square)

  Listen for the bustle of vendors at Central Market, also known as Lancaster Central Market, here in Penn Square.

• Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Penn Square)

  Penn Square, in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, holds the 43-foot Gothic Revival Soldiers and Sailors Monument that rises in front of you.

• Fulton Opera House (historic downtown Lancaster)

  Reportedly the oldest working theatre in the United States, the Fulton Opera House, The Fulton, faces you now.

• Steinman Hardware Store (Lancaster)

  Look at the Steinman Hardware Store, a Lancaster landmark that has anchored this corner for centuries.

• Hager Building (Lancaster)

  Terra cotta clads the Hager Building in front of you, a Lancaster landmark by architect C. Emlen Urban built between 1910 and 1911.

• Reilly Brothers and Raub Building (Lancaster Central Market)

  Brick, pink granite, Indiana limestone and copper face the Reilly Brothers and Raub Building in front of you in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

• Jasper Yeates House (Lancaster)

  Jasper Yeates, lawyer and justice, lived from 1775 to 1817 in the brick townhouse you face, now home to WRKY Radio, in Lancaster.

• Lancaster Arts Hotel (Harrisburg Avenue Tobacco Historic District)

  Arnold Falk raised this tobacco warehouse in 1881, and today it houses the Lancaster Arts Hotel in front of you.

• W. W. Griest Building (Lancaster)

  Fourteen stories of granite, limestone, and terra cotta make up the W.W. Griest Building, known locally as the Lancaster Federal Building and PP&L Building.

• Lancaster City Historic District (Lancaster City Historic District)

  Three square miles of the Lancaster City Historic District spread out from where you are, spanning Lancaster and Manheim Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

• Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum (Lancaster)

  Botanist Louise Arnold Tanger offered to plant trees on these grounds, and the five-acre arboretum that followed in 1959 spreads in front of you at…

• Woodward Hill Cemetery (Lancaster)

  James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, rests in Woodward Hill Cemetery, the 32-acre garden cemetery in front of you.

• Rock Ford Plantation (southeastern Lancaster)

  Historic Rock Ford opens in front of you: the General Edward Hand Mansion and the John J. Snyder, Jr. Gallery of Early Lancaster County Decorative…

• Cork Factory Hotel (New Holland Avenue)

  Cork products were once made in the hotel you face.

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