During the American Revolution, the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Served as the United States’ Capital for Just One Day
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The nascent nation’s leaders fled to the inland city as the British advanced on Philadelphia in September 1777. They held one meeting at the local courthouse before moving on to York