Twenty Feet High and Ten Years Wide: AHistory of Prison Escapes From The Lancaster County Jail By Patrick M. McSherry The Lancaster Prison—What a lovely place. Why would anyone want to leave? One would think that the walls were to keep people out, not in! Well, believe it or not, many people have

A History of Aeronautics In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania By William E. Krantz The history of aeronautics, the operation of aircraft, in Lancaster Coun- ty covers a span of one hundred and fifty years. Lancaster has long been an air-minded community. Certainly, the feats of our famous native, John

********************** Transcribed from six volumes Of daily entries while in The field with the U. S. ARMY of the WEST During the CIVIL WAR, And three volumes of Miscellaneous entries, By William G. Davis And Janet B. Davis For the Lancaster County Historical Society Lancaster, Pennsylvania Winter, 1988-89 �( ( �The following may

, The Pennsylvania State Marker, a cast iron mold engraved sign, which stood along the old road (now inside of the Farm Museum land) was re-located to a site on the corner of route 272 & Valley Road, a major intersection. It reads: Issac Long Barn. The United Brethren in Christ and The Evangelical

Washington County, Pennsylvania. During their four years of active duty in the Civil War, 1861-1865, the regiment fought in ten major battles and participated in five campaigns. Their contribution to the Union war effort is impressive but heretofore they have received little recognition for their efforts

Met in Philadelphia on the 30th of December, 1849 (Philadelphia, Pa.: The General Committee, 1850), pp. 1-8. 3. Louis Hartz, Economic Policy and Democratic Thought: Pennsylvania, 1776-1860 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948), p. 15; Victor S. Clark, History of Manufactures in the United

under the auspices of the provincial government? Lancaster County was not 300 years old — it was a mere 253 years old! Nevertheless, the importance of Lancaster County's founding in the history of Pennsyl- vania cannot be underestimated. The first three counties were established — on paper, at least

combined membership of its sister institutions along the Susquehanna would be reason enough to scrutinize its historical development. A glimpse in the most comprehensive local history underscores the need to study Bethel. Ellis & Evans" History of Lancaster County (1883) 3 , although over 100 years old

, died when John was only six years old, so he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Magdalena (Kohl) Hantch. John had an older sister, Mary Ann, who married David Hantch, an engineer for the Fulton Cotton Mills, who was killed instantly when a three ton boiler exploded at Mill #5 on Duke and Lemon

accused of crimes was the lowest of any county of the ten studied for Pennsylvania in these years, including counties like Westmoreland, Bedford, and Northumberland, with shorter histories and smaller female populations. Twenty-four percent of Lancaster women brought to court as the accused had surnames