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Lancaster Stock Yards

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Late 19th century. 1147 Lititz Pike (U.S. 222 N)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

The Lancaster Stock Yards linked livestock to regional transportation in this weathered wood complex, complete with its old drovers’ hotel and the yards. Still in use, it is a leftover from another age, but worth seeing.

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Author: 
George E. Thomas
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George E. Thomas, "Lancaster Stock Yards", [Lancaster, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-LA23.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 319-319.

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