RockSpringsand Surrounding By HERBERT H. BEM Rock Springs and Indian Bowls Rock Springs, in southern Fulton Township, Lancaster County, are prob- ably unique in America. It is doubtful if their combination of extraordinary geological and archaeological characters exists anywhere else. As one of the

History of St. John's (Center) Reformed Church, &tot Ear/ Township, Lancaster County By GLENN WEAVER Introduction About mid-way between the small towns of Terre Hill and Bowmansville, Pennsylvania, on a small hill overlooking the lovely valley of the Black Creek, stands a small country church—rich

The History of the Gas and electric industries in Lancaster County By HORACE RICHARDS BARNES Introduction STUDENTS of economics and business are familiar with con- solidations and mergers. Indeed integration, either horizontal or vertical, or a combination of the two types of integration, is an

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER IN LANCASTER COUNTY. It will be generally conceded, I think, by those who have given the matter any attention or who are acquainted with the facts, that there is no city of equal size in the country more given to newspaper reading than Lancaster. It is to-day sup- porting

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

deserving of the attention of the Lancaster County Historical Society; and my appreciation is due you, my fellow members of the Society, for giving me the congenial task of preparing the story and telling it at this meeting. But before focussing on Lancaster's own part in the history, we may get a better

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

means for the preservation of records incomplete, and also the turbu- lent and unsettled state of the country,the paucity of data becomes obvious. The aim of the historian should be to present facts, such as can be substantiated by documentary evidence, and such as have been derived from personal

building, which has for a long time been known as "The Old Oil Mill." It was, in its day, one of the busiest places in that section of Lancaster county. This building was built just about the end of the last century, either in 1798 or 1799, by Abram Hoover, for a woolen mill. He also built a good-sized dam

PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLVI 1942 Nos. 2 and 3 By M. LUTHER HEISEY The leading residents of Lancaster, when it was incorporated into a borough, were those who were nominated and appointed in the charter as burgesses and assistants, and a few others. This charter