Report of the Committee which Con- ducted the General Hand Cele- bration. Lancaster, Pa., October 2, 1912. To the Lancaster County Historical Society. Your committee to arrange and con- duct the public ceremonies comprising a celebration of "Lancaster County in the "War of the Revolution," with

REPORT OF COMMITTER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT CELE- BRATION OF 200TH ANNIVER- SARY OF FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT WITHIN BORDERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY: Laucaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1910. To the President and Members of the Lancaster Couuty Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to con- duct a

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE Having in Charge the Marking of the Site of the Postlethwaite Tavern Where the First Courts of Justice in Lancaster County Were Held To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to com- memorate, in a suitable manner

. Diffenderffer Presides. Mr. F. R. Diffenderffer, one of the vice presidents of the society and Chairman of the Committee of Ar- rangements, called the assemblage to order, making a few remarks as fol- lows: "Fellow members of the Lancaster County Historical Society; Ladies and Gentlemen: We have met here to

REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

Secre- tary of the Lancaster County Agricultural Society, which had disbanded. Volume XVI, in 1912, is the most notable volume the society has issued. In that year the portrait exhibition was held in the Woolworth Building, from November 23 to December 13. It attracted wide attention and has, perhaps

, blacksmiths, Conestoga wagon builders and nearby fulling mills gave employment to many per- sons, and an air of prosperity was evident to the traveler. The Pennsylvania Gazeteer of 1798 thus describes the town at that date: "A post town in Caernarvon township, Lancaster county, Pa., distant twenty miles from

. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Title: First social function of the Society. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Postlethwaite, John--Will. Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County