OLD LANCASTER, This paper makes no pretension to being exhaustive. Most of it is only a "twice-told tale," familiar to many of you. There is too much of interest in the early history of this fair city of ours—too much of importance—for this to be more than a brief sketch of a few prominent items

LANCASTER TOWNSTEAD. Copyrighted May, 1901, by S. M. Sener. "Out upon Time! It will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before." On February 6, 1729, the settlers in the back districts of Chester county, of the province of Pennsylvania, prayed the Council of the province for a divi

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

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

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

GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series

REPORT OF COMMITTER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT CELE- BRATION OF 200TH ANNIVER- SARY OF FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT WITHIN BORDERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY: Laucaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1910. To the President and Members of the Lancaster Couuty Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to con- duct a