, September 27th, in the court house, which stood in the center of Penn square. For this reason Lancaster claims the distinction of having been the capital of the United States, even though it was but for a day. As Howe was in possession of Philadelphia, then the largest city in America, only 62 miles distant

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Continental Congress. Constitutional history--United States. United States--Politics

, millerite at the Gap mine, and brucite at the Wood mine, dis- covered and operated at these points. Prof. Herbert H. Beck, in his Minerals of Lancaster County, states that these minerals have done more to bring into academic circles of the world the name of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, than any other

our own local Lancaster County ancestors. �II. Our County's Introduction Of Intensive Agriculture Into The United States FROM the very beginning of permanent settlement in Lancaster County intensive agriculture was entered upon, on a large scale. The first settlers' application for land, was for

attitude towards the Revolutionary War. V. 16 p. 253. 1732 Quoting Smith's History of Pennsylvania, which seems to discuss the history of Quakers particularly we find it stated regarding the beginning of the Quaker sect in Lancaster County that "A meeting for worship every first and fifth day was held at