authorized to call on citizens for the pur- pose of receiving contributions, and all monies collected were to be deposited in the Farmers Bank. and transmitted by the mayor or cashier to the persons authorized to receive contributions for the benefit of the sufferers. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, July

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �The objects of the

church building, but in this Miss Ayres was mistaken, for he was still in deacon's orders when the ceremony of consecration was performed. On December 2nd, 1820, the Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg, then in his twenty- fourth year, entered upon the cure of Saint James's, Lancaster. On Christmas Day, following, there

controlled, the tavern and the dwellings of John Gonter, Jr. and Mr. Briggs, were destroyed. A committee was appointed in Lancaster to receive donations for the unfortunate individuals whose property was thus destroyed. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 22nd, 1822, stated that a total of $400.75 had

Comprehensive Plan preserve and develop the individuality of for the Greater Lancaster will serve to the city. create a wider vision of the future, to stimu- This plan is published in order to give the late an ever-increasing spirit of civic progress, citizens an opportunity to familiarize them- and to furnish