Your Guide to Pennsylvania
Freedom is woven into our region like so many threads in an Amish quilt. In the stories of people whose longing to worship freely led them here. And of those who fought to create and preserve these United States. And of a people whose ticket to liberty was on an Underground Railroad. And it’s in the stories of people who come here to this day to live as free as those who arrived three centuries before them.
Welsh immigrants settled Churchtown and Bangor Episcopal Church was named for a church in Wales. The original log church was …
Fleeing religious persecution in Europe, Hans Herr and his family arrived in Lancaster County in the early 1700s. Although Herr’s …
