of that width northward a like distance. This conveyance was in trust "for erecting, keeping or holding a market within the Town of Lancaster for the ease and conveniency of the inhabitants thereof and others having oc- casion to resort thither." Just when a market house was first built upon this

The Lancaster Stage Dispatch Lancaster, in the early days, was one of the busiest, if not the very busiest, stage town in the United States, and, as the old geographies tell us, it was also the largest inland city. As far back as 1754, Governor Pownall, in describing the main roads around

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

Abraham Witmer' s Bridge At the period immediately succeed- ing the RevolutionaryWar, there was no bridge along the King's Highway over the Conestoga River. There was, how- ever, a public fording. A fording still exists, though now partly cover- ed over by the tracks of the Lancaster and Eastern

A LIST OF THE ORIGINAL LANCASTER SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND LANCASTER TURNPIKE. When I wrote my article on "The First Long Turnpike in the United States," I was convinced that somewhere among the almost forgotten records of the State there must be a list of the

competent legal attainments for each district. In pursuance of this author- ity, and at the instance of the Bar of Lancaster county, Governor George Wolf, on May 1, 1833, commissioned Judge Hayes as President Judge of this Court, to serve until the first day of May, 1840. By the Act of March 11, 1840, P. L

MADAME MARY FERREE AND THE HUGUENOTS OF LANCASTER COUNTY As we gaze over the beautiful landscape which surrounds this spot, memory unconsciously turns back to a far-off time, when a handful of French emigrants took up their abode upon it. To this land they came to better their condition and in