History of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster, the Red Rose City, is a city in the South Central Pennsylvania|South Central part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Lancaster County. With a population of 55,351,{{cite web | title=Lancaster (city) QuickFacts | work=Census Bureau | url= http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42/4241216.html | accessdate=June 30 | accessyear=2006}} it is ranked as the 515th-largest city in the United States. (Lancaster County, with its suburbs, boroughs, and townships, is the 99th largest{{cite web | title=Rankings for Metropolitan Statistical Areas | work=Census Bureau | url= http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/metropop/table04.xls | accessdate=June 30 | accessyear=2006}} metropolitan statistical area in the United States, with an estimated population (in as of 2005|2005) of 490,562.{{cite web | title=Lancaster County QuickFacts | work=Census Bureau | url= http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/42/42071.html | accessdate=June 30 | accessyear=2006}})
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Like many of Pennsylvania's cities and boroughs that are at "build-out" stage, there are several townships outside of Lancaster city limits that, although autonomous, use the name Lancaster for postal and name-place designation. Those townships include East Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania|East Hempfield, Manheim Township, Pennsylvania|Manheim, and Lancaster Township, Pennsylvania|Lancaster.
Locally, Lancaster is pronounced as LANK-i-stir, rather than the more common pronunciation LANG-CAS-ter (with the first two syllables more or less equally stressed). {{fact | date=2007-06-20}}
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