LITITZ AS AN EARLY MUSICAL CENTRE. THEhistoryofmusicinLancastercountybeginswiththeearlyreligiousmovements. The county of high agricul- tural destiny was in the mak- ing—with axe and plowshare—and there was neither opportunity nor oc- casion for serious or organized effort in the field of music

some of them away, and otherwise cutting up and despoiling many parts of the same." A Visit to Lititz, Lancaster County, in 1799. In his diary, Jacob Peirce, of Long- wood, East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pa., thus describes his visit to the Moravians at Lititz, Lan- caster county: 1 Mo. 19

to. The presence in Washington of Gen. Sutter led ultimately to his choice of Lititz as a place to spend the remain- ing years of his fast-waning life. Hav- ing learned of the excellent education- al facilities offered by the Moravian Church at Bethlehem and Lititz, he sent his two granddaughters to

The Military Hospital at Lititz, 1777-78. During the period under consideration Lititz was a Moravian settlement consisting of eighteen buildings, which included residences and several larger structures. These houses were ranged along Main Street between the eastern extremity of what is no* the