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Excerpts and summaries of news stories from the former Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era and Sunday News that focus on the events in the countyâs past that are noteworthy, newsworthy or just strange.
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For decades, Lancaster County was a fast-growing place to live.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the county grew by a rate of about 13 percent each decade. And in the 1980s, the residential growth rate soared to more than 16 percent, according to United States Census Bureau data. The second half of the 1980s was the peak of that period of growth, at nearly 10 percent over just five years.