"A Landscape of Incalculable Advantage"

  • August 17, 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Historic Rock Ford

    881 Rockford Road
    Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602
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Description

Historic Rock Ford's 2025 Lecture Series presents "A Landscape of 'Incalculable Advantage': How the Lime Industry Shaped Everyday Life in 18th and 19th Century Southeastern Pennsylvania." Presenter Peter Glogovsky's lecture will explore how the limestone and lime industries in southeastern Pennsylvania were critical in shaping everyday life in the 18th and early 19th Century. This program highlights some of the people who quarried stone, burned lime, and used these commodities in an effort to demonstrate the extent to which this industry contributed to Pennsylvania’s rural and urban cultural landscapes and industrial development. This lecture will begin at 6 PM in the Langmuir Education Room located on the first floor of the Rock Ford Barn.

Prior to the lecture, the Snyder Gallery will be open from 5 PM to 6 PM so that attendees may visit the Gallery which includes our 2025 Focus Exhibit “1825: Lafayette in Lancaster.”

About the Presenter: Peter Glogovsky is a public historian and museum professional whose work focuses on Pennsylvania industrial history, cultural landscapes, and public memory. Peter received his Doctorate in 2022 in American Studies from Penn State University. His dissertation examined the people, cultural landscapes, and business networks that shaped the 19th century limestone and lime industries in southeastern Pennsylvania. He earned his M.A. in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and his B.A. in Art History and Anthropology from Franklin and Marshall College. Peter first discovered his interest in historic landscapes while growing up in rural Berks County where he explored old farmsteads, fields, and woodlands.

 

Date & Time

Sun, Aug 17, 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Venue Details

Historic Rock Ford

881 Rockford Road
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17602 Historic Rock Ford
Rock Ford Foundation

Historic Rock Ford is comprised of the circa 1794 General Edward Hand Mansion and the John J. Snyder, Jr. Gallery of Early Lancaster County Decorative Arts. Our historic site is situated on 33 acres of gardens, woods and grounds surrounded by Lancaster County Central Park located in the southeast corner of Lancaster City.  This remarkable estate offers visitors the opportunity to encounter the outstanding original late-Georgian style architecture of the Hand Mansion, to experience its rooms furnished in exquisite period style while, in the Snyder Gallery, to explore a nationally recognized collection of Lancaster County decorative arts dating from circa 1760 to 1820 including furniture, portraiture, long rifles, tall case clocks, silver, and much more. 


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