TWO NOTABLE MINING INDUSTRIES OF LANCASTER COUNTY By H. Luther Willig While the bounteous harvests of her fair fields have made Lancaster County as the "Garden Spot of Pennsylvania" her past mining industries have added additional luster to her name through the discovery of the rare minerals

THE SUBSTANCE OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT POOLE FORGE, CAERNARVON, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. By Roberts Appel, Esq. PRAPARED FOR THE RECORDS OF THIS SOCIETY By Mr. Hugh W. Nevin. Midst pretty plains and dells of Caernarvon township, in northeastern Lancaster county, stand two old iron forges, Colonial

/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Title: Petition of sundry citizens of Cocalico presented to the County Commissioners in 1782, reporting their distress from tempest and flood. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Floods--Pennsylvania--Cocalico Township. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--1775-1865

(Lancaster County, Pa.) Stores, Retail--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. General stores--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. East Earl (Pa. : Township)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 21-39 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Seyfert, A. G. Title: History of Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church in East Earl Township / by Hon. A. G. Seyfert. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church (East Earl Township, Pa.) Presbyterian Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Presbyterians--Pennsylvania

): Hamilton, James, 1710-1783. Presbyterian Church Corporation of Pequea (Pa.) Cemeteries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1920 Description: 39-51 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report

situation and nothing was done to prevent the slaughter. 1764 •Samuel Eckerlin of Cocalico Township, Lancaster County and member of the religious society of Dunkers held 187 acres of land in trust for their use and benefit. Henry Miller applied to him for the deed to himself but Ecker- lin refused saying

have such information as will induce them to set a just value upon their shares. By Order of the Directors, William Atlee, Secretary. The library was conducted as the Lancaster Library Company until October 22, 1763. Letters of Incorporation were then granted to it by James Hamilton, Lieutenant

settling in one place, here in Lancaster County. (Votes Assembly 1718). In 1728 the products from the Susquehanna Valley were mov- ing on to Philadelphia in Conestoga's wagons in great quantities and constancy, according to Samuel Blunston (1 Pa. Arch 216). By 1755 it was stated, as we shall see later