weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

, Witmers and Zimmermans all came from eastern Lancaster County and their descendants are many whose homes are now in Waterloo County. Space and time prevents me from going into a detailed history of each. In conclusion I want to say a word of the journey from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada. The distance of

as that dedicated to domestic architecture," said Hallam. How true this is regarding the early architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Here we can find a large part of the history of the days of our forefathers recorded in the walls of the houses they built. From the time of the earliest home

destroyed all the inhabitants and the powerful influences behind the project ought to make us appreciate how nar- rowly the ancestors of many of us here in Lancaster County escaped being sent to another section of the world, from which they never would have reached Pennsylvania. By a similar narrow margin

Westwardly from Northboro, Massachusetts, one hundred and sixty in number. A very significant fact to be remembered in this connec- tion is that in the 18th century the migration of cattle, so far as the County of Lancaster and Province of Pennsylvania is concerned, was from the East to the West. It is often

FEDERAL REVENUES OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PA., FROM ABOUT 1850 to DATE By C. H. Martin, June 1, 1923 The critical period in American History about 1835 to 1840 has been com- memorated in a rather lasting manner by striking coins, known as 'Hard Times Tokens' bearing inscriptions of reference to the

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

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