The Wright’s Ferry Mansion was built in 1738 by Susanna Wright’s father, Richard, and brother, John, before being passed down to her. She brought it back into operation as a boarding house at that time. This historic property in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been kept authentic, with all original features intact, including the kitchen where meals were cooked for guests on certain days of week or month, depending on whether they came during off-hours when no one else needed room service.

With Susanna’s fluency in Latin and Italian, she also studied French when she moved to Pennsylvania’s frontier. Literature was always a delight for this intellectual woman. Through London booksellers, though, they brought European civilization into the wilds of America. Versed as an heiress with knowledge about many languages aside from English (which most Americans spoke then), she made sure everyone around them knew there were more ways than survival via learning other tongues.