an impressive expression of a people's belief in a government organized on the basis of the Common Law. We celebrate tonight the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the granting of a Charter to the borough of Lancaster. What is a Charter? It is an instru- ment for permitting and encouraging the free

The Art o/ Photography in Lancaster By M. LATHER HEISEY W HEN Robert Burns said: "0 wod some Pow'r the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us !" he did not realize that one answer to his observation would be given to the world by the invention of photography. Until that time men saw their

Railroad and Bridge Builders of Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY "They Builded Better Than They Knew" Transportation, ever a prime problem of the human race, received a mighty impetus in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. It was then steam was introduced as a motive power, and

How Lancaster Grew and What People Thought of It By M. LUTHER HEISEY Approaching the bi-centennial year of the establishing of Lancaster as a borough, it is well for us to turn in retrospective thought and consider what manner of town Lancaster was, how it grew, and what people visiting it for a

— the airplane. So Lancaster, in marking the twentieth anniversary of the first air-mail flight in the United States, celebrated the event on Thursday, May 19, 1938, by dispatching by plane the first air mail ever flown from a Lan- caster airport. At 3:14 P. M., five planes, bearing as many pouches of

The Makers of Pottery in Lancaster County By M. LUTHER HEISEY "The wheel goes round and round, And where it stops nobody knows." S 0 RUNS a radio couplet, but the wheel of the old potter has stopped, and mechanized methods have stolen the romance from the mystic makings of forms in clay. The art of

William Frederic Worner. L. Co. Hist. Soc., vol. 37, p. 137. Handbook of the Moravian Congregation, 1923. Early Jewish Colony in Lancaster County, by Monroe B. Hirsh. L. Co. Hist. Soc., vol. 5, p. 91. Shaarai Shomayim Congregation, Program of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary, 1941. History of the First

Locomotives—Made in Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY As stated in the constitution of this Society, its object is, among other ramifications, to mark the growth and progress of population, wealth, educa- tion, agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce in the city and county. "Peace hath her

PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLVI 1942 Nos. 2 and 3 By M. LUTHER HEISEY The leading residents of Lancaster, when it was incorporated into a borough, were those who were nominated and appointed in the charter as burgesses and assistants, and a few others. This charter