. Abundant evidence proves the use of United States of America to have had currency prior to the flight from Philadelphia. If history is to be accurate and historians are to be intellectually honest, we can say only that Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation while sitting at York, and the Articles

on history, but maps, charts, all manner of records, manuscripts, files of newspapers, and works by Lancaster County authors. 5. The Society should try to obtain as soon as it can a permanent home where materials can be kept in a secure manner. Dr. Dubbs then remarked, "Let each one do what he can

Clio's Century: A History of Lancaster's Cliosophic Society John Ward Willson Loose Few communities in the nation can boast an anomaly quite like the Cliosophic Society. The arts of conversation and genteel discussion, alas, no longer seem to be part of our national culture. Literary societies have

continued to elect the mayors until 1842. The first mayor elected by the voters was Michael Carpenter who took office in April 1842. Terms of office were for one year, and he was reelected on the Democratic ticket until his retirement in 1852 at which time Christian Kieffer, a Whig, defeated Fred Hambright

this essay to explain how the court functioned and the quality of its leadership during those 62 years. When the English colonists arrived here, they brought with them the English system of seeking justice. Evolving over many centuries, the English judicial system, now adapted to American needs and

free from the cancer of vice and sin, the records of the Lancaster County Court state otherwise. Upright gentlemen of Lancaster could visit the towns along the Susquehanna River, but bawdyhouses were to be found scattered throughout the county. During the 1880s an effort was made in Lancaster to form a

Lancaster and the American Centennial Exposition of 1876 By John W. W. Loose To celebrate a century of American Independence, a "world's fair" or Cen- tennial Exposition was held in Philadelphia from May to November 1876. The "birthday party" for the world's largest "democratic Republic" was an