Lewis & Clark Trip 1 C (3/27/2021)

Saturday, March 27, 2021

First a stop at President James Buchanan's Wheatland, the homestead he purchased in 1848.

Wheatland (1828, in Federal style) where
James Buchanan successfully conducted a "front porch"
campaign for United States President in 1856

Two Platanus occidentalis/American Sycamores
frame the home of the bachelor Buchanan
where he lived with a niece and a nephew

Because 19th century lawns were often used for grazing,
Wheatland's lawn has been converted to a blend of fescue
turf varieties that needs mowing once or twice a year,
requires no fertilizer, is drought tolerant, and its
dense root system inhibits weeds

Smokehouse and kitchen garden

The back yard of Wheatland

A double privy

Carriage house (late 1880s, replaced the stable)

Next door is the Lancaster History Museum
Stauffer Wing (2013-2014)

18C corn milling stones (KSS)

The grounds of the museum comprise the Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum.

Dwarf Conifer Garden

Tsuga canadensis 'Cole'/Cole's Prostrate Canadian Hemlock

A structure of branches in the Fagus grandifolia/
American Beech Grove

Quercus palustris 'Pringreen'/Green Pillar Pin Oak

Original building of the Lancaster County
Historical Society (1956) (KSS)

*On 4/19/1803, Meriwether Lewis arrived in Lancaster, PA. He spent two and a half weeks with Andrew Ellicott (a mathematician, astronomer, surveyor and cartographer) to learn navigation and surveying, especially for the plotting of latitude and longitude for mapmaking.*

Sehner-Ellicott-von Hess House (1780, in
Georgian style) was occupied by
Andrew Ellicott from 1801 to 1813

Lancaster Central Market (established in 1730,
Market House built in 1889, by James Warner
in Romanesque Revival style)

Although many market vendors were Amish, we did not
find many of the typical Amish delicacies

Raphanus sativus acanthiformis/Watermelon Radish

Quarts of pork lard!

Pretzels

Amish textiles include Thomas the Tank Engine
and all the local major league sports teams

Shoofly pie, a kind of molasses crumb pie

Instead of schmierkase, we have commercial cream cheese

The Stoltzfus family name is everywhere!

Souse/Head Cheese made with vinegar/
Meat jelly

Another Stoltzfus

Healthy Pannhaas/scrapple?

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1874)
stands on the site of the old Lancaster
Courthouse where the Second Continental
Congress met in 1777

Penn Square with a brass band

A so-called dog wheelchair assists ambulation

*On 5/7/1803, Meriwether Lewis departed from Lancaster, PA by stagecoach, headed to Philadelphia.*

We continued on to Bird-in-Hand, PA.

The once popular Old Village Store and Hardware Store
(supposedly one of the oldest in the US) are permanently closed

Plain and Fancy Farm with an Amish Country Homestead;
note the clothes drying on a line

The adjoining one-room schoolhouse

Plain and Fancy Farm barn, inside of which we had lunch at
the Smokehouse BBQ & Brews Restaurant

Amish buggy

And for tourists: the Amish "omni-buggy"

Buggies and cars wait their turn at the stop sign

Old Leacock Presbyterian Church and Cemetery in Gordonville, PA

Old Leacock Presbyterian Church (established 1740,
church built in 1754 by a dozen young Irish craftsmen
recruited to come to Lancaster, PA) is identical to the
church the young men knew in Northern Ireland

Due to shortage of funds, only one side of the church was
dressed by fashionable stone with five stained glass windows;
this south side faced the road at the time

However, the road was moved to the north side with
less appealing stonework and only two windows

Water pump and trough

A wooden box held a visitor notebook

Kent signed the visitor book and noted that his
Hamilton ancestors helped to found this church

These Hamilton ancestors had a homestead
east of the church just across a creek

The homestead east of the creek

We continued on Old Philadelphia Pike towards Philadelphia, before detouring home.