The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

Ferree's on King Street Thos Bull, Roger Kirk and Abiah Taylor at Peter Hoffnagle's on S. Queen Street The Lancaster County assemblymen lodgings: Jacob Strickler and Richard Keys at Mr. Barton's; Alex. Scott on East Orange Street; Daniel Buckley at Peter Hoffnagle's, and Jeremiah Brown and John Hopkins at

amusements that has ever been exhibited in this town will be presented," was satisfactory evidence that theatrical performances were known to the citizens of the staid old borough prior to the year 1800. Recently, while searching the files of an old German newspaper established in Lancaster more than one

grand old Key- stone State. These Germans that came to Penn- sylvania were not an ignorant people. �They were the most learned settlers that came to America. The first Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, F. A. Muhlenberg, and eight Governors of Pennsylvania, had Ger- man blood in their veins

hundred years before they were made in Lancaster county. The clock that is run by a weight and gov- erned by a pendulum is not an ancient invention by any means, and it is really the only enduring and accurate clock in generai use to-day; and that, of course, is the type of the grandfather clock. It is an