The Christiana Riot of 1851: A Reappraisal Richard Grau THE MASON-DIXON LINE BECOMES PRONOUNCED The Christiana Riot of September, 1851 epitomized the conflicting in- stitutions which were already threatening the unity of the nation. The tragedy in Christiana, Pennsylvania was an outgrowth of the

, in 1820 and 1821. See Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County. Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneer and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1883). 543-544; and the undated clippings of articles written by Francis Xavier Reuss, an old Columbia

Lancaster County's Present Court House: A History of Its Construction 1852-1855 Fay Follet Kramer ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author is indebted to many people who aided in various ways in making this paper a reality. It is hoped that, in a small way, this paper will serve as a means of saying thank-you to

JAMES D. McMAHON HISTORY OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT IN LANCASTER How a Civil War monument event- ually came to the crossroads of Lan- caster where it has resisted successfully the efforts of anti-traditionists is told by a police officer with an interest in the monument and history. In

print through the years and will not be new to readers of church history �but we believe that this is the first time that an attempt has been made to correlate the work of Francis Asbury and Henry Boehm. In the preparation of this sketch we have extracted data from sev- eral books which tell us much

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