back of the house, The old double wooden door is still in its place, shaded by a quaint old porch entrance with seats on either side. A hall in the center, running through the house towards the river, has rooms on either side whose broad windows look out like so many blinking eyes, and which seem to

The Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Joint Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States and Franklin College By DR. HORACE R. BARNES The four days, October 14 to 17 inclusive, will go down in the history of Lancaster County as one of the outstanding periods in the long and

Indian Art And Relics On March 4 the Lancaster County Historical Society was ad- dressed by Gerald B. Fenstermaker, editor of the "National Ar- chaeological News," and well-known local archaeologist, who spoke about Indian Art and Craft. The lecture was illustrated with many lantern slides, and

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

of this river long before Wash- ington was born, and which he must have thought of as home. "The name 'Conoy' is inseparably connected with our county, and it is interesting to note, in speaking of 'Peter's Road,' that westward across the Susquehanna from the Indian town ran a road linking up with

, brought greetings on behalf of his society. He referred to the "many noteworthy actors and citizens like Henry William Stiegel, Robert Fulton, Benjamin West, George Ross and Edward Shippen," which Lancaster has given to the country. He also stated that "Baron" Stiegel was interred in Berks county, and

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an