: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

, especially with regard to the history of Pennsylvania. With the melodious words of Mifflin stilll• lin- gering in the air he was impelled in the first place to also pay a eulogy to the poet. He wondered whether the people of �Lancaster County realized the heights he has attained. By some he has been compared

claim that there were 36 separate printing establishments in Lancaster county during the seventy-eight years between 1752 and 1830, while Philadelphia had only 47 in the 102 years between 1728 and 1730, or eleven more than we had, although she had the advantage of twenty-four more years to her credit

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

Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

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

cO · LED ANON - - ··-··- ~ · · / • • - · · - ! JOY O•# 1,.1;1,r ~ l'IIA..IIW"'"""l"''J' MAP OF .Lapcaster County, Pa. Showing Lines of Conestoga Traction Company Figures Give Population of Townships Scale I inch = 4.61 miles SUPPLEMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN AUGUST, 1909 Courtesy, Conestoga

LANCASTER COUNTY LOYALISTS The idea of preparing an article for our society on the Loyalists of Lancas- ter county during the Revolutionary struggle occurred to me several years ago, and I at once began to gather such material towards that purpose as I could find. As the number of these Loyalists

.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1909 Description: [237]-254 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 9 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.13 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room