source of the material contained in this essay. This essay was presented by the author at the annual meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society on 11 May 1993. Appendix EXCERPTS FROM THE 1934 PROSTITUTION SURVEY Case E-3 About 5:45 p.m. I visited this three-story brick building (36 South Lime

following year, the Department of Pennsylvania, G.A.R. was organized in Philadelphia. The fraternity grew and by the turn of the century was a political and social force with wide power and influence. That influence grew locally, too, as the Lancaster County contingent was the only Pennsylvania county with

statutes then current should be incorporated into Pennsylvania statutes. This library, now at the Lancaster County Historical Society, is considered the fourth most important library of its kind in the nation. Lancaster Countians not only have been readers; they have been authors. The first history of the