Stevens & Smith Historical Site

The Stevens & Smith Historic Site Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you communicate with us via e-mail or use another site feature that requires your submission of personal information.

We may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, or other information. You may, however, simply visit our site anonymously.

Like many websites, we use “cookies” to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the “Do we use ‘cookies’?” section below for information about cookies and how we use them.

How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, respond to a survey or marketing communication, or browse the website.

How do we protect visitor information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

Do we use “cookies”?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term “outside parties” does not include Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our organization, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

How can you opt-out or remove information you have provided to us?

To delete all of your online account information from our database, use our Contact Us form to send us a message with a subject of “Remove My Information.” Please let us know what your email address is and we will delete all information relating to that address in our online database.

Third-party links
In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).

Changes to our policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on January 15, 2008.

Questions and feedback
We welcome your questions, comments and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issue.

Online policy only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

The Thaddeus Stevens & Smith Historic Project is of the utmost importance for Lancaster. Stevens, one of Lancaster's most noteworthy citizens, has long been neglected, and it is great that this prescient advocate of racial equality is finally being recognized, to say nothing of his great Afro-American friend, Mrs. Lydia Hamilton Smith, whom he always treated with the greatest respect.

- Dr. Hans L. Trefousse, distinguished professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian

Closer to Equality — Capital Campaign

In 2010, LancasterHistory.org assumed responsibility for the future development of the Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Historic Site in Lancaster City.


This project lies at the core of our mission to engage learners of all ages and every walk of life about the history of the people, places, and events that shaped our County, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the United States of America.


Our plan is to proceed thoughtfully and work carefully to ensure that the future development of this site is viable from the start and sustainable over the long haul. In the meantime, we are already hard at work developing public programs to share the legacy of Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith through lectures, school programs, publications, and online resources beginning in 2011.




A Place in History: The Story of Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith

Watch video now (33 minutes)

LancasterHistory.org‎

Lancaster County's Historical Society & President James Buchanan's Wheatland
230 North President Avenue
Lancaster, PA 17603
phone: 717.291.5861
fax: 717.291.2251
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