Lancaster: Fairfield County Seat and Sherman's Birthplace
Lancaster sits along the Hocking River in Fairfield County, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus. The city was platted in 1800 by Ebenezer Zane, who was cutting Zane's Trace through the Ohio wilderness to connect Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky. The settlement grew around the trace and incorporated as a town in 1803, the same year Ohio achieved statehood. The city takes its name from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general who led the March to the Sea during the Civil War, was born in Lancaster in 1820. His childhood home on East Main Street is now the Sherman House Museum. His brother, Senator John Sherman, author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, also grew up in the house. Sherman attended the school on the corner of Main and Broad before entering West Point.
Anchor Hocking, the glass manufacturer founded in Lancaster in 1905, still operates its main factory in the city and maintains corporate offices here. The company has changed ownership multiple times through bankruptcies and acquisitions but continues producing consumer glassware. The Ohio Glass Museum on Main Street preserves examples of Anchor Hocking production and related glass manufacturing history.
Mount Pleasant, a sandstone outcropping on the east side of the city, rises about 250 feet above the surrounding valley and was a gathering place for Shawnee and other Native Americans before European settlement. Rising Park surrounds the outcropping and provides walking trails to the summit.
In Lancaster, escort websites with local availability appear in the Escortservice.com directory. As a directory-only service, Escortservice.com makes no arrangements between users and the websites it lists. Only visitors who are at least 21 may use the directory.
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Lancaster sits along the Hocking River in Fairfield County, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus. The city was platted in 1800 by Ebenezer Zane, who was cutting Zane's Trace through the Ohio wilderness to connect Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky. The settlement grew around the trace and incorporated as a town in 1803, the same year Ohio achieved statehood. The city takes its name from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general who led the March to the Sea during the Civil War, was born in Lancaster in 1820. His childhood home on East Main Street is now the Sherman House Museum. His brother, Senator John Sherman, author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, also grew up in the house. Sherman attended the school on the corner of Main and Broad before entering West Point.
Anchor Hocking, the glass manufacturer founded in Lancaster in 1905, still operates its main factory in the city and maintains corporate offices here. The company has changed ownership multiple times through bankruptcies and acquisitions but continues producing consumer glassware. The Ohio Glass Museum on Main Street preserves examples of Anchor Hocking production and related glass manufacturing history.
Mount Pleasant, a sandstone outcropping on the east side of the city, rises about 250 feet above the surrounding valley and was a gathering place for Shawnee and other Native Americans before European settlement. Rising Park surrounds the outcropping and provides walking trails to the summit.
In Lancaster, escort websites with local availability appear in the Escortservice.com directory. As a directory-only service, Escortservice.com makes no arrangements between users and the websites it lists. Only visitors who are at least 21 may use the directory.
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