(Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1903/1904 Description: [230]-236 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 8, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.8 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

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

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

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

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

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

local history that take deep root in the Revolutionary period; and to point out some remarkable coinci- dences arising from the circumstance that Andre resided for a time as a paroled prisoner of war in the Town of Lancaster. Some Local History-1744-1765. You must indulge me in another digression if I

appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

fugitive's shotgun as the avenging weapon of the bondsman stains the soil of lower Lancaster county with the first blood spilled in attempted en- forcement of a law, later to be wiped out in the crimson conflagration of civil war.* *With characteristic literary and historical thrift, that most accurate

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner