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Uncharted Lancaster

Adam Zurn

Uncharted Lancaster reveals the county’s most fascinating stories—local history with odd twists, forgotten places, and the occasional brush with the supernatural. Each episode explores the hidden histories and long-buried secrets of Lancaster County, where legend, landscape, and local lore collide.

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84 episodes

  1. The Dugout Canoe and the Engineering of the Susquehanna 29:10
  2. The Haunting of Haldeman Mansion 27:23
  3. The Crimson Scarf Ghost of Drytown Road 27:43
  4. Lititz Springs Inn’s Haunted Portrait of General Sutter 28:02
  5. The Haunting of Rock Ford 39:25
  6. Bonus Episode: How Twelve Men Escaped Lancaster Prison...Twice 53:56
  7. Meet Columbia's Little Bigfoot—the Albatwitch 30:28
  8. Doc Zimmerly’s House of Horrors 32:07
  9. Capital Day: Lancaster and the Revolution 55:52
  10. Pawpaw: America’s Lost Tropical Fruit 1:02:04
  11. Brandywine: Defeat on the Road to Victory 1:02:20
  12. Book Review: The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker 48:28
  13. The 1777 British Invasion of Delaware 1:10:14
  14. The Criminal Life of Isaac M. Buzzard 37:38
  15. The Shifter: Lancaster County’s Railroad Sandwich 40:02
  16. American Shad: The Fish That Built America 52:15
  17. Susanna Wright: The Susquehanna Muse and Colonial Polymath 37:30
  18. William Whipper: Weaponizing Capitalism for Freedom 40:57
  19. Wind Cave: Geology, Cave Rats, and Rescue 52:28
  20. How Canals Reshaped Rural America 26:58
  21. The First National Bank of Columbia 22:42
  22. Columbia: The Capital That Almost Was 35:22
  23. Inside the History of Lancaster County Prison (1729-1978) 50:51
  24. Good Shepherd Fireplace: Lancaster’s Hidden Mercer Masterpiece 47:14
  25. Theodore Burr’s Doomed Bridge Across the Susquehanna 49:44
  26. The Robbery That Erased Marietta's Debt 43:55
  27. The Hessian Ditch at Elizabeth Furnace 58:05
  28. June 28, 1863: Burning of the Columbia–Wrightsville Covered Bridge 27:28
  29. How Iroquois Diplomacy Shaped the US Constitution 45:24
  30. The Rise and Fall of the Conestoga Navigation Company 21:37
  31. Lancaster: America’s Capital for a Day 55:19
  32. Mayflies: Susquehanna Bug Blizzard 48:30
  33. The 1906 Shenks Ferry Dynamite Disaster 53:31
  34. Dugout Canoes of the Susquehanna 52:09
  35. Billmeyer and the White Cliffs of Conoy 43:40
  36. The Pawpaw: America’s Forgotten Fruit 1:00:44
  37. Lancaster’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument 44:20
  38. Safe Harbor Dam: Taming the Susquehanna 1:08:17
  39. Jailbreak! Lancaster’s Great Escapes 1:03:08
  40. John Wise and the Birth of American Ballooning 51:35
  41. Columbia Market House Dungeon 52:35
  42. Rails of the Red Rose: The Conestoga Traction Era 51:46
  43. The Border War That Shaped Pennsylvania 44:00
  44. The Man Who Buried Conestoga: The Diaries of Andrew J. Zercher 32:43
  45. How the Conestoga Wagon Put America on the Right Side of the Road 38:46
  46. The Ephrata Cloister: A Legacy of Devotion and Artistry 40:20
  47. Andrew Ellicott and the Hidden Origins of Lewis and Clark 43:47
  48. Frederick Shoff and the Industrial Rise of Pequea 46:20
  49. Bowmansville Roller Mill: The Sound of History 53:31
  50. 1857 Manheim Tragedy: Race and Vengeance in Lancaster County 34:21