Strasburg Historic District

Strasburg is a linear village in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about seven miles southeast of the city of Lancaster, strung out for roughly two miles along the old Conestoga Road, now Route 741. The district covers about 82.5 acres and contains 193 buildings built of log, brick, limestone and sandstone, nearly all still used as homes. Its early streets, East Main, West Main, Miller and South Decatur, make up almost the entire district, and the buildings sit close to the street with little setback. Strasburg developed along the route used by pack-horses and wagons traveling west from Philadelphia, and was bypassed by the Lancaster Turnpike in 1792 before a new route through the town was chartered in 1793. The village retains a high share of its 18th and 19th century buildings, and the district is valued for its early German vernacular, Georgian and Federal houses and for how well its layout reflects its transportation past.