7 When Lancaster Was Pennsylvania's Capita, Capita, BY GEORGE L. HEIGES Continued from Vol. LVI, p. 84 July The Fourth 1804 in Lancaster The Lancaster Intelligencer in the issue of July 3, 1804, gave to its readers the information that "His Excellency, The Governor of Pennsylvania arrived in this

most favor, but the legislators were not ready with their votes to make the final decision. During the discussions, one new location was suggested as a site for a capitol. The suggestion came from two Lancaster county men—William �B. Galbraith and James Galbraith. They dispatched a letter to the Senate

. When Lancaster Was Pennsylvania's Capital By GEORGE L. HEIGES Philadelphia's Loss — Lancaster's Gain The frame of government for William Penn's colony in the new world was published in 1681. At the same time the colony was fittingly named "PENNSYLVANIA" by King Charles II. In October, 1682, the

pleasant farewell, for his two youngest daughters, Nancy and Rachel, had come from Lancaster to bid him good-bye. �Working For Pennsylvania Ellicott was employed on many occasions by the Keystone State. In 1786, he surveyed the boundary of Pennsylvania and New York from the Delaware River to the ninetieth

is now in the vault at City Hall.) Lancaster was made a borough . in 1742, incorporated as a city in 1818. The old charter was discarded in 1926, and a commission form of government was adopted. It is now one of Pennsylvania's forty-seven third clas;; cities, ninth in population in the State. The