Lightning Strikes Spire of Trinity Lutheran Church By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0 N Tuesday, May 13th, 1823, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the beautiful spire of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, pride of Lancaster, and an ancient land-mark, was struck by lightning

Lancaster, he moved to Philadelphia, where he served as pastor of the Lutheran congregation of Saint Michael's and Zion. Little did Dr. Helmuth dream, when he baptized young Muhlenberg, that the boy was destined to do a great work for the cause of education in Lancaster, the town in which Dr. Helmuth had

children in the congregations at Mill Creek, Pequea, and Beber Creek." This is the first mention of the Strasburg Lutheran Church, for the Beber (Beaver) Creek congregation has always been identified as the one which worshipped, at that time, or sub- sequently, at the " Old Dutch Burying Ground." The Rev

contingent had taken possession of Fort Duquesne on November 25, 1758. Rev. Mr. Barton returned home and 1759 founded St. James Church, Lan- caster, and was the first rector of St. lames Parish, and Missionary for the Congregation of Paquea and Caernarvon. This position he filled for twenty years, and in

, contains an inter- esting description of this incident. One must, however, overlook certain state- ments in this account, as the Lancaster Journal was politically opposed to Governor Snyder, and would, naturally, hold him up to public ridicule when- ever occasion offered. The article referred to is as

THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA, BY THE CONFEDERATES, UNDER GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, AND ITS EFFECT UPON LANCASTER AND YORK COUNTIES. By George R. Prowell. Memorandum. [The author of the paper first sketched, in an interesting talk, the events and activities occurring in the Confederate army under Lee

Lancaster County settlement at Willow Street, was sur- veyed. They are in print, and a reference to them is all that is needed. 1711 The progress of the Pequea settlement in its first st year is described in No. 2796 of the Taylor Papers, dated July 20, 1711. It is as follows: "Philadelphia. 20th of 5th mo

supposed, however, that it was a plainly constructed affair, just sufficient to serve its purpose, a container for the hells. It was the first recorded belfry in the town of Lancaster, that of the Reformed Church having been erected in 1741, and that on the Court House in 1748. As stated heretofore, it was

was licensed to preach by the ministerium of Pennsylvania, and ordained at Reading in 1802. He preached at Easton and Danville, New York, and on September 2, 1815, he was elected to succeed the Rev. G. H. E. Muhlenberg as pastor of the Luth- eran church at Lancaster. He removed to Lancaster October

April, 1849, Rev. John Leaman, M. D., was installed pastor of Cedar Grove. The following year the congregation erected a manse near the church for the use of the pastor. The house was built across the road, east of the church. The lot was purchased from John High and contains one hundred and five