THE STORY OF SH ULTZ'S MILL ON BEAVER CREEK By Herbert H. Beck The artificial structure of an inhabited region like Lancaster County is primarily determined by its natural topography and its drainage—by surface conditions chiseled out by the geological hand of long past centuries. Thus it is that

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

THE MEETING OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN LANCASTER By Herbert H. Beck The Sesqui Centennial of the most notable part Lancaster has taken in national affairs is September 27. On that date 1777 the Continental Congress met in the Lancaster Courthouse, which stood in the center of Penn Square

Lancaster to become pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, where he remained in pastoral service until his death, which was on May 23, 1815. From the time of his arrival in Lancaster and throughout thirty-five years of active and efficient service as pastor, scientist and educator, Muhlenberg lived in the stone

I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the