County brewery. Our history begins with a tun and ends with a pun; it is the rise and decline of a once large industry in our midst. It seems almost incredible that brewing has never been the subject of a his­ torical essay concerning our industrial development. The authors would like to anticipate the

the history of Co- lumbia and the "Underground Railroad" in the days of the Fugitive Slave Act knows that a tunnel to the Wright Mansion would have been com- pletely unnecessary. Other popular stories include things that were supposed to have hap- pened in Lancaster but which did not actually occur

Penn, Proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, com- menced the organization of his new settlement in 1682 he erected three counties, Bucks, Philadelphia and Chester. Although boundary lines were far from precise it is known these three counties extended inland on a perpendicular line to the Delaware

Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural So- ciety for the period 1866-1905, but later fairs—especially those which became so popular during the early twentieth century—have not come under the scrutiny of the historian. �Yesterday's historians generally preferred their social history to be a