Wood would not have allowed Lincoln to leave the train. Dawn of Eventful Day. And now the morning of the 22nd of February dawns. A beautiful picture presents itself in Philadelphia. Lincoln, accustomed to early habits, is on the balcony at the State House at seven o'clock. Fifty thousand people are out

--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [281]-296 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

Govern- ment works and investigations de- clare that these rock pictures were made by the early Algonquin Indians.¹ This makes them much earlier than the time of our Conestoga and other tribes of Indians. These an-, dent rock-carving Indians thus may have been here before Columbus dis- covered America

genealogy and private life to show his public career in its true niche and to give it inter- pretation. I took the advice of a senior mem- ber of this society and inquired of Mr. B. F. Owen, of Reading, who is an authority on Thomas Edwards and on that section of early Lancaster county generally. Mr. Owen

EARLY LANCASTER TAX- ABLES--1754 r A document, entitled "The Return of the Borough of Lancaster, 1754," has just come to my hands. It has never been in print, and its contents are not recorded in any book of record in the Court House or elsewhere. It consists of five sheets of pa per, not bound

road leading from Philadelphia to the West, having the Susquehanna Valley and River as the objective, occupied the same ground as, or a strip of ground closely parallel with, that occupied by the Pennsylva- nia Railroad, at least to the Octoraro Creek. This early road, leaving the little town of

where the present Manheim stands I cannot tell. If so, Manheim is as old as Lancaster as an early village.* Several os the parties litigant ap- pearing in these suits appear promi- nently in the pioneer history of the province and county about this time. Joshua Low, the first Coroner os the county

.)--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

constituting Lancaster county from the Indians to the whites, is to be the subject of this paper. The Earliest Purchase by Swedes. The earliest "white man's" title to Lancaster county, of which we have any knowledge or record, is that nar- rated to us by Campanius and Acrel- ius, the early Swedish historians