Editing Lancaster, Pennsylvania (section)

==Inventions and firsts==
* The [[Conestoga wagon]] was first built in Lancaster, used extensively for migrations before the development of the railroad.
* The first [[long rifle|Pennsylvania Rifle]] was created by Martin Meylin in the 1700s.
* [[Peeps]], an [[Easter]] confection shaped as marshmallow chicks covered with yellow sugar, were invented by the Rodda Candy Company of Lancaster in the 1920s. In 1953, Rodda was purchased by Sam Born, the Russian immigrant who invented ice cream "jimmies", and production was moved to [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania]].
* The first battery-powered [[watch]], the Hamilton Electric 500, was released in 1957 by the Hamilton Watch Company.
* The first fountain soda water dispenser was invented in 1819 by [[Samuel Fahnestock]].
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