Editing Lancaster, Pennsylvania (section)

===18th century===
{{See also|Pennsylvania in the American Revolution}}
Originally called Hickory Town, Lancaster was renamed after the English city of [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] by native [[John Wright (businessman)|John Wright]]. Its symbol, the [[Red Rose of Lancaster|red rose]], is from the [[House of Lancaster]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vacationsmadeeasy.com/LancasterPA/articles/AHistoryofLancasterPA.cfm|title=A History of Lancaster, PA|access-date=1 July 2016}}</ref> Lancaster was part of the 1681 Penn's Woods Charter of [[William Penn]], and was laid out by [[James Hamilton (Pennsylvania)|James Hamilton]] in 1734. It was incorporated as a borough in 1742 and incorporated as a city in 1818.<ref>{{cite web | title=Lancaster County History | work=PHMC | url=http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/BAH/dam/counties/browse.asp?catid=36 | access-date=August 1, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908093030/http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/counties/browse.asp?catid=36 | archive-date=September 8, 2006 }}</ref>

In the summer of 1744 the Lancaster courthouse was the venue for an important colonial treaty between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Provinces of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.  Conrad Weiser served as interpreter, and the text of the treaty was soon after published by Benjamin Franklin.<ref>''A Treaty, Held at the Town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, By the Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, And the Honourable the Commissioners for the Provinces of Virginia and Maryland, With the Indians of the Six Nations, In June, 1744''.  Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1744.</ref>

During the [[American Revolution]], Lancaster served for one day as the temporary [[List of capitals in the United States|capital of the United States]], seated at the Court House (built 1739, destroyed by fire in 1784 and rebuilt before relocating to current Lancaster County Courthouse in 1852; original site is now the [[Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)|Soldiers & Sailors Monument]] at Penn Square c. 1874),<ref name="unchartedlancaster.com">{{Cite web|url=https://unchartedlancaster.com/2020/06/12/lancasters-old-courthouse-witness-to-great-moments-in-american-history/|title = Lancaster's old Courthouse: Witness to Great Moments in American History|date = June 12, 2020}}</ref> on September 27, 1777, after the [[Continental Congress]] fled [[Philadelphia]], which had been captured by the British. The revolutionary government then moved still farther away to [[York, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="capital">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityoflancasterpa.com/lancastercity/cwp/browse.asp?a=3&bc=0&c=42722|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708160949/http://www.cityoflancasterpa.com/lancastercity/cwp/browse.asp?a=3&bc=0&c=42722|url-status=dead|title=City of Lancaster, PA|archivedate=July 8, 2011}}</ref>