Society, viz., the relative social, political and commercial importance of Lancaster and Lancaster county in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of our country's history. When there was no "Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburg and the West," our good city and our excellent county were "there!" Hence it is

that rather gloomy period of our national history there were two very distinct elements in Lancaster society—the one pro-Eng- lish, sympathizing rather with the British cause, and the other, less notable socially, in accord with the Revolutionary movement (scarcely then more than a rebellion). While it

the county until the War of the Re- bellion. 5. The history of the county since 1861. This, however, is only the chrono- logical order in which events must be marshalled, cause and essect analyzed, sorces dissected and results traced to their genesis. The whole scheme must be "cross-sectioned" by an

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

Lancaster, sixty miles from Philadelphia, on the way to Fort Duquesne, was "near as large as the City of New York." A Lancastrian at Quebec. The first historical coincidence of local note to which I shall ask your attention is that about the time emo- tions were stirring in the breast of John Andre which

dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted