a $500 mortgage bond, a blank stock certificate, and a requisition for high- tension lines. [18__]-1912. Folder 8 Conestoga Traction Co. Booklet of early histories, “Lancaster Co., Pa.,” which describes the company’s history, its routes, and sights along the way. 1 August 1908. Booklet by H. W

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

, noting that Great Britain continued its policy of violating American neutral rights, and French policy was spoken of in language far from friend- ly. The President urged Congress to put the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and

foundation of a round-house on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Columbia, Pa. They came across the skeleton of a human body which had been buried a long time. Buried with the remains were an old French flint-lock musket with brass mountings; a tinder box; an iron tomahawk; a knife blade; twenty or more opaque

successful, both economically and socially. In relating events leading to the building of these two churches, a history of the Gap Nickel Mines must be given. The Gap Nickel Mines, located thirteen miles east of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in Bart Township, date back as early as 1718. 1 William Penn, because of

An Identity of the Massawomekes: Five Nations Iroquois Lawrence Van Horn The term Massawomeke seems peculiar to the literature of Captain John Smith (1612). In 1608, he came upon separate parties of Susquehannocks and Massawomekes on his trip up Chesapeake Bay (1612:53), 376). And these

properly made out, certified and sworn to, before a justice of the peace, or one of the commissioners, as the law directs. 9th. The management of the public school in the city of Lancaster should be investigated, to ascertain whether it might not do more towards its own support. 10th. An account of the

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Abner McMichael Eyde, with Miriam Eyde Bixler In 1891, when I was ten years old, my Dad, Eli Eyde, was transferred from his Columbia job as telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad to the tower at Lancaster on North Prince Street between Walnut and Lemon