The Architecture of Historic Marietta, PA By: Brian Schulman - Your Lancaster County, PA Real Estate Professional (Coldwell Banker Select Professionals, Lancaster PA)

I have written a number of posts about Historic Marietta, PA, including the Christmas Candlelight Tour and the scenic Breezy View Overlook. One of the reasons Marietta is such a treasure is its remarkably diverse historic architecture.

This is a log and stone home I restored in the early 1980s. The

Marietta, PA Candlelight Tour of Homes By: Brian Schulman - Your Lancaster County, PA Real Estate Professional (Coldwell Banker Select Professionals, Lancaster PA)

On Sunday, December 2, 2007, the 42nd Annual Marietta Candlelight Tour of Homes took place. All week the Borough of Marietta held its breath for the weather report, which had for the previous four or five days been predicting a wintry mix of snow, sleet, ice andand rain.
The advance purchase tickets

Chickies Rock County Park By: Brian Schulman - Your Lancaster County, PA Real Estate Professional (Coldwell Banker Select Professionals, Lancaster PA)

Located on Chickies Hill between Marietta and Columbia, PA, Chickies Rock County Park offers some of the most spectacular views of the Susquehanna River available anywhere in the Susquehanna Valley.

Located off Route 441, the park starts with a parking area.

Walking trails meander west toward the river...

Although the

Vesta Furnace Office, Marietta, PA By: Brian Schulman - Your Lancaster County, PA Real Estate Professional (Coldwell Banker Select Professionals, Lancaster PA)

Marietta, PA has a long and distinguished history going back to the earliest 1800s, when lumber from the north was floated down the Susquehanna River and sawed in its lumber mills. A good portion of its wealth, reflected even today in its many preserved homes, derived from the iron furnaces that

Rivertownes Fourth Friday in Lancaster County PA - celebrates Marietta, Columbia and Wrightsville By: Jeannie Kontis, Lancaster PA Real Estate & Lancaster County Homes for Sale (Long & Foster Real Estate, Lancaster PA)

Fabulous 4th Fridays in the Rivertownes - Columbia, Marietta, Wrightsville
The Rivertownes of the Susquehanna Valley and Lancaster County PAhave been celebrating their heritages this summer during their FabulousFourth Friday in the Rivertownes events - held every fourth friday of each month through September 28th.
This Friday, July 27th, enjoy a viewing

The Linden House, Marietta, PA By: Brian Schulman - Your Lancaster County, PA Real Estate Professional (Coldwell Banker Select Professionals, Lancaster PA)

In1983 I purchased the Linden Housein Marietta, PA. Builtca. 1805 by lumber magnate Henry Cassel, the 6,000 SF mansion had fallen on hard times. After being unceremoniously chopped up into ten low rent apartments, the roof had been burned off and the house condemned. The mansion had 606 window panes (yes,

Historic Marietta By: Brian Schulman - Your Lancaster County, PA Real Estate Professional (Coldwell Banker Select Professionals, Lancaster PA)

Marietta, PAstarted out in colonial days as Anderson's Ferry after a service established in the late 1720s by James Anderson, crossing the Susquehanna river to York County. Marietta got its name from Anderson's two daughters, Mary and Henrietta. After the Erie Canal was built between 1825 and 1830 along the river,