Ghosts of Businesses Past

Walking around the city, there are clues to Lancaster’s history in some interesting places. The names of certain businesses are deeply intertwined with Lancaster’s past:
Steinman Hardware (founded 1744),
Miesse Candies (founded in 1875),
Watt & Shand (circa 1880),
Hamilton Watch Company (founded in 1892),
Dodge Cork (founded in 1926 – later connected with Armstrong) . . .
just to name a few. Some of the buildings where these businesses were started have been restored and re-purposed. But countless other less-well-known businesses have existed here for a while, then slipped away. I spent most of Saturday afternoon walking around some of the alleys of the city and found clues to some of those businesses.

Here’s a photo tour of some of the “ghosts of businesses past” that I’ve discovered walking around the city.

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