Selection Highlights HDUSA’s First U.S. Navy Shipbuilding ContractARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hanwha Defense USA (HDUSA) is the first shipbuilder selected by TOTE Services, a leading maritime services company specializing in vessel construction management, to build a…
Dan Keller, co-owner of Keller Bros. Ford in Lititz, took the controls of the L-39 Albatros jet “Vandy-1” during Community Days at Lancaster Airport in August 2015, flying rolls and spins with Warrior Aviation, a charity that helps wounded veterans build aviation careers.
Lititz amateur and 2009 Warwick graduate Alli Weaver got an early-morning text that put her in the field as a non-competing marker for the final two rounds of the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open at Lancaster Country Club, her home course.
Jessica Butzer bought Bruno’s of Lititz in March 2020, days before the pandemic shutdown, kept it running on takeout and trays, added a food truck, then bought a second Bruno’s in Lancaster.
Frank W. Woolworth’s first store failed. His second, in Lancaster in 1879, worked, and it launched a retail empire.
Moravian leader Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf visited Pennsylvania in 1742. The town he helped inspire took its name from a Bohemian castle.
Robert Fulton was born in Little Britain Township in 1765. His Clermont steamboat ran on the Hudson in 1807.
The man whose sawmill set off the California Gold Rush spent his final years on Main Street in Lititz and is buried in the Moravian cemetery.
Irish-born doctor Edward Hand settled in Lancaster and rose to general in the Revolution. His Rock Ford home is a museum.
Charles Demuth spent most of his life in Lancaster, painting its factories and rooftops. His home is now a museum on East King Street.
Thaddeus Stevens practiced law in Lancaster and led the Radical Republicans in Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Mennonite bishop Hans Herr led one of the first groups of settlers to Lancaster County. The stone house built by his son in 1719 is a museum.