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

Lancaster Gas and Fuel Company was merged into the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. In 1935, the Columbia Gas Company merged into the Pennsyl- vania Power and Light Company, the outstanding stock of the Columbia Company amounting to $60,000 and outstanding bonds to $155,000. Prior to 1935 the

Libraries in Lancaster By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In 1760, when Lancaster was one of the most thriving inland cities of the colonies, and a point of interest to travellers who wished to understand America, a group of leading citizens met to form the "Lancaster Library Company." 1 This first board

Schools and education in the &rough 01 Lancaster By P. M. HARBOLD An Act of the Provincial Council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, passed February 6, 1730, permitted "any religious society of Protestants . . . to purchase or establish houses for schools, etc." In the spirit of this Act, the

reorganization ; out of it all came a new corporation, The Lancaster, Pa., Watch Company, which started the factory again in September, 1877. The payroll included only 45 names ; this grew in nine months to 63. Financial troubles persisted ; frequent changes were made in ownership of bonds and notes, and in

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

THE STORY OF CAERNARVON, The township of Caernarvon is the most easterly of the townships that collectively make Lancaster county the keystone in agricultural wealth in the United States. Settled in Colonial days, peopled in the beginning by a sturdy race of men, its history in the almost 200 years

on the new trolley line was commenced in the early fall of 1892 when the first surveys were made. The company hired fifty Hungarians as laborers. The contract for building the line was awarded to Edward McGovern of Lancaster, and called for completion of the line by December 31, 1892. Actual