Company was formed; on the same day, 10th December, the Sun Fire Company organized. In 1791-2 the Active Fire Company joined the ranks to volunteer fire companies. Nearly thirty years later, on 4th March 1820, the Washington Fire Company was formed. In January, 1826, the Lancaster Axe, Hook and Ladder

this particular phase of activity. Mrs. William Rote, Jr., and Mr. M. Luther Heisey, members of the Lancaster County Historical Society, advise that Dr. Samuel W. Miller, then recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical College, became superintendent and resident physician in 1895

--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

Pennsylvania (which included Delaware), Virginia (2) Col. Rec., Vol. 4, p. 698. (3) Mombert's History of Lancaster County, Ap., p. 68. (4) Mombert, p. 78, Ap. (5) Mombert, p. 67, Ap. (6) Mombert, p. 81, Ap. �(which included West Virginia) and Maryland to stand by them and their English King against the

perfumery works, Carbon steel casting works, the gas works, and the power plant of the Lancaster County' Rail- way and Light Company. Before reaching the Conestoga creek, we pass the site of the old Conestoga iron fur- nace, located on Hoffman's Run, built by Robert and James Colvin and George Ford, in 1846

: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

of guidance. (6) Adam Diller, who had captained a company of militia, marching in the same regiment as had James Buchanan, to the defense of Baltimore, in 1814, lived in Lancaster, and had served as sheriff of the county from 1828 through 1830. It is unlikely that the one-hundred-and-twenty-foot

Material: Book Subject(s): Music--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Landisville (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: [3]-27 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

THE NEWSPAPERS OF LAN- CASTER COUNTY. In 1896 1 was induced to attempt the compilation of a bibliography of the newspapers, magazines and other pe- riodical issues of the press in the city of Lancaster from 1752 down to that time. Two or three previous attempts, and very successful ones, too, had

, of the United States Sen- ate, a Secretary of State, Minister to England, and the only President of the United States from Pennsylvania, and he, too, was a resident of Lancaster County. At that time we abused him because he didn't stop that great war, but we now concede that no man could have stopped

, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old