, made a pilgrim- age to places of historic interest in Lancaster city and county as the guests of The Lancaster County Historical Society, under the guidance of Dr. Frederick Willson, chairman of the Pilgrimage �

Cape Hinlopen to the Falls of the Delaware and thence westward to the Great Falls in the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Conewago Creek." 1 The Lancaster County Historical Society held a meeting on April 1 with a program commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Found- ing of Pennsylvania

as the guests of The Lancaster County Historical Society, under the guidance of Dr. Frederick Willson, chairman of the Pilgrimage �committee. The tourists traveled in automobiles and were met at Grand View Heights, a suburb north of the city, by two policemen on motorcycles, who escorted the visitors

Count Zinzendorf's native country, and as guests of the Historical Society, Dr. Hans Luther, the German ambassador to the United States, directed the two German envoys, Dr. J. von Rantzau, vice consul in New York city, and Arno Mowitz, consul in Philadelphia, to attend the exercises. The Society was

- other letter, on file with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson, writing from Annapolis to George Washington, under date of April 16, 1784, refers to objections raised to the Society. An original member was required to pay a membership fee equivalent to three months' pay of his rank

adopted. 2 It was as fol- lows : CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER FOR THE PROMO- TION OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES AND NATIONAL INDUSTRY. ARTICLE I. This society is formed under the name and description of "The American Society of the County of Lancaster for the Promotion of

--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930 Description: [31]-37 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.34 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

formal memorial plot. Called to the scene, the writer beheld an impressive sight. There lay the men who had rammed home the charge, aimed and fired under Washington at Brandywine! From the loosened earth there seemed to arise the life and times of the Revolution with their patriotic enthusiasm and

paintings.? That they are citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and mem- bers, officers and managers of the Society for the Promotion of Industry and Prevention of Pauperism, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of said Commonwealth on the fifth day of June, 1832, the charter thereof being

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and