--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --History. Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --Antiquities. Manheim Township (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1915 Description: 163-173 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society

was published by the young Sauer in 1770. This book was the first written and published in America on school teaching. �It is pleasant, indeed, to follow these early German-Swiss settlers westward through the fertile valleys and over the pleasant slopes of our own great county of Lancaster, and, in

Earliest Reformed Church in Lancaster County. The early history of Lancaster county gathers around its ancient churches. In colonial days, far more than at pre- sent, the church was the centre of so- cial life; and those who would study that life in its more recent develop- ments should not fail to

Wright; H. F. Eshleman's Map of Early Highways, and Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County. ²²Second Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 7, p. 464. ²³Holms' "New Sweden," Lindstrom's Map, and p. 157. �trade was carried on between the Swedes and the Susquehannas, or Minquas, as they called them thirty years

twenty-five years earlier, which was in 1684. It would he interesting to know how many of the 109 Lancaster county Germans naturalized in 1730, who came to Pennsylvania, as the act says, between 1700 and 1718, did come be- fore 1710. There were, surety, very few. John Rudolph Bundely may have been one of

the pion- eer settlers of Lancaster county. To look back two hundred years is a long vista, suggestive of many changes in the conditions, habits and thoughts of these people and their de- scendants. A parallel between 1710 and 1910 could be drawn and made both inter- esting and instructive, and I have

, blacksmiths, Conestoga wagon builders and nearby fulling mills gave employment to many per- sons, and an air of prosperity was evident to the traveler. The Pennsylvania Gazeteer of 1798 thus describes the town at that date: "A post town in Caernarvon township, Lancaster county, Pa., distant twenty miles from

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American