of the same era. At the six- �90/4,1986 215 teenth "American Convention for promoting Abolition of Slavery and im- proving the condition of the African Race" which met on October 5, 1819 in Philadelphia the report presented by the Columbia, Pennsylvania Society is quite informative. After apologizing

manuscript by Mrs. Maude Wilson Ball, "History of Bethel A.M.E. Pennsy 1976. o. 1. Hereafter citations will be made in the text. �91/4,1987/88 183 6. Compare Leroy Hopkins, "Black Eldorado on the Susquehanna: The Emergence of Black Columbia, 1726-1861," in Journal of LCHS, Vol. 88. 7. This bit of speculation

the 1843 Lancaster City Directory and in the 1864 Atlas of Lancaster County. The 1843 Directory lists two African churches in Lancaster City: St. James African on Regart's Lane near South Queen Street (today's Bethel A. M. E. Church, North and Strawberry Streets) and Isaac Gilmore's African Church

The Lancaster County Judiciary: Reflections on Tradition By Wilson Bucher In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with gener- ations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. —JOHN DOS PASSOS For, backward

Historical Notes on the Construction Industry in Lancaster, Pa. By Robert S. Wohlsen in comparing the building procedures and practices of the 17th and 18th centuries in and around Lancaster County and relate them to today's methods, unbelievably they turn out to be the same. I am glad to have had

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and

Historical Markers of the Heritage of the United Methodist Church in Lancaster County by The Reverend Abram W. Sangray The following Roadside Markers were put in place in Lancaster County, in the summer of 1984, as a bicentennial project of the United Methodist Church of Lancaster. Each description

the line of the Susquehanna, in Lancaster County, and make such dispositions as will effec- tively secure these crossings." Colonel Frick was to replace Colonel Emlen Franklin and Major Charles C. Haldeman.14 Col. Frick left Harrisburg on the morning of the 24th of June, and arrived in Columbia that

received a summons requiring them to appear in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas on the third Tuesday in January, 1869. �57 The date of the settlement of the suit is in the Appearance Docket for January, 1869. These dockets are housed in the Lancaster County Court House. 58 This strategy

State of the Arts in Lancaster County 1989 By Gerald S. and Margaret G. Lestz These essays were presented before a capacity audience of tbe Cliosophic Society of Lancaster on 5 January 1990. We are reminded of the man who listened to a large seashell and heard the whispering that seemed to suggest