a $500 mortgage bond, a blank stock certificate, and a requisition for high- tension lines. [18__]-1912. Folder 8 Conestoga Traction Co. Booklet of early histories, “Lancaster Co., Pa.,” which describes the company’s history, its routes, and sights along the way. 1 August 1908. Booklet by H. W

Lehigh Power Securities Corporation. The Pequea was merged in the same year into the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. It is not our intention to forecast or prophesy, but business must plan for the future. Lancaster County is fortunate both from the point-of-view of gas supplies as mentioned in the

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

. The Pennsylvania Archives, Series VI, vols. 12-13, provides the data on the confiscated estates. Those of Lancaster County follow: Jacob Boyer, Donegal Township, 87 acres, sold to Abraham Ream for 225 pounds in 1781. Nicholas Houssecker (Hunsecker?), Lebanon Township, house and lot, sold to William

tried to escape from the various Lancaster prisons, quite a few successfully. Before leaping into the subject of Lancaster jailbreaks proper, let's see a little about the history of Lancaster County jails so that we know who's escaping from what. The whereabouts and whatzits of the first jail are still

, Stiegel named the township for his wife. See the Names of the Townships, by Joseph H. Dubbs, Vol. I, No. 3, Lancaster County Historical Society. F. A. God- charles, in his Pennsylvania History, says the township was named for Queen Elizabeth. 2 The Horseshoe Pike, which was laid out from Downingtown to

-story brick �The ancestry of Adam Diller as recorded by Ellis and Evans in their History of Lancaster County, page 535, is as follows: Ancestry of Adam Diller, the Founder Casper Diller of Huguenot descent, 1675-1775, settled one mile south of New Holland, Lancaster County. Philip Adam Diller, 1723-1777

of Miss Montgomery, died on the hill. He was one of the most active of the ironmasters, and was generally esteemed according to Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County as a "genial, kind-hearted, and enterprising gentleman." Abram Musselman's children were all educated in private schools. His

paper money, to which the private issues of Lancaster County Scrip were somewhat related. BIT See Fip 'n' Bit. CROWNS French coin in rather common use following the American Revo- lution; were also issued by Germany. DERNIER English coin. Benj. Furley—Penn's land agent in the Province of Pennsylvania