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one here present knows, is the richest agricultural county in the United States. The value of its agricultural products in a single year has reached the great sum of $7,657,790. During the past half century three purely agricultural publications have been started for their instruction and

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house was built / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Schools--Pennsylvania--New Holland--History. New Holland (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1897-98 Description: [181]-212 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

secure the permission of his pa- rents, he went away without their consent, for which act of disobe- dience he was promptly disowned. He crossed the Atlantic and made his way to Philadelphia. His age at that time I have been unable to learn, but he must have been quite a young man, �because he at once

I Who, that is at all acquainted with the school history of Pennsylvania, has not heard of Thomas Henry I I Burrowes ? No man was more energetic in engrafting the free school system on Pennsylvania than he. He gave I • � :: the subject the devotion of a life time. From 1836 until his death in 1871

Philadelphia, in 1816. It is found on page 47: "In the town of Lancaster, a place at that time (circa A. D., 1750) remark- able for its wealth, and which had the reputation of possessing the best and most intelligent Society to be then found in America. It was chiefly in- habited by Germans, who, of all people

were that united in this scheme to es- tablish a new county. With a single exception, they are unknown to the average reader of our history. It is only when the story of Pennsylvania as it was recorded 200 years ago is d r a g g e d i n t o l i g h t t h a t w e h e a r o f the m. E ach one of them pl

EPHRATA COMMUNITY 128 YEARS AGO. The writer of the following letters was the celebrated Jacob Duche, D. D., born in Philadelphia in 1737. He was a man of liberal education, and a graduate of the College of Philadel- phia (now the University of Pennsyl- vania), and he also studied at the Uni