, September 27th, in the court house, which stood in the center of Penn square. For this reason Lancaster claims the distinction of having been the capital of the United States, even though it was but for a day. As Howe was in possession of Philadelphia, then the largest city in America, only 62 miles distant

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Continental Congress. Constitutional history--United States. United States--Politics

article gives the religious facts and history. V. 5 p. 331. 1730 Lancaster Town Laid Out In an article signed "Investigator" the origin and the laying out of Lan- caster Town is detailed. V. 8 p. 60. The writer states, "Governor Hamilton made an offer of two places one known as the "high plain" also by

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

of the United States, having been nominated by the Whig conventions in Indiana, Ohio and Maryland, and by the Anti-Masonic convention at Harrisburg, Pa. In less than one month after he visited Lancaster, he was defeated at the polls by Martin Van Buren, who was elected President of the United States

Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Joseph Bonaparte, 1768-1844. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--19th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1923 Description: 161-163 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 9 Call