Article: ERAS PAST; This week in Lancaster County history

Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by New Era staffer Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at the Lancaster Area Library, 125 N. Duke St.

25 years ago

DIVER DROWNS: A volunteer diver from Montgomery County drowned in the Muddy Run lake in southern Lancaster County while searching for the body of a 22-year-old Lancaster man who drowned six days earlier during a church picnic. (July 11, 1977)

POST OFFICE PLANS: Plans for a new 148,000-square-foot post office were made public by the U.S. Postal Service. The huge one-story facility was to be built along the west side of ...

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