Fulton Opera House
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The Fulton Opera House, also known as the Fulton Theatre or simply The Fulton, is a League of Regional Theatres class B regional theater located in historic downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It is rep
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Paxton Boys
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The Paxton Boys, also known as the Paxtang Boys or the Paxton Rangers, were a mob of settlers that murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in December 1763. This group of vigi
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…surviving members of the Conestoga were placed in protective custody at the jail after fourteen Conestoga were murdered by a settler mob known as the Paxton Boys. On December 27, 1763, thirteen days after the first massacre, the Paxton Boys broke past the sheriff and others defending the jail and murdered all…
1841 lithograph depicting the Paxton Boys' massacre of the Conestoga at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in December 1763
A stone memorial stands at the location of the original Conestoga Indian town.
Pennsylvania Associators assemble after news of the Paxton Boys marching on Philadelphia, published 1764.