entries in his Diary From June 27, 1777, To September 24, 1781. Marked By The Lancaster County Historical Society 1927. This was to commemorate for all time the fact that there lived in our City for a period of years Christopher Marshall, the Quaker Patriot of the Revolution who took most active interest

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

soon thereafter. This carried the title and possession of the land up to 1735. All of which will appear from the following deeds and transfers made and the recitals therein. Record Book B. B. page 161. Recorder's office, Lancaster. Record Book A. A. page 502. Recorder's office, Lancaster. Record Book A

village of that name in Civil War times, but as a village is not now functioning. Near by is a pumping station of the Octoraro Water Company. This bridge was built in 1868, and is sixty feet long and being in poor condition is likely to give place to a concrete bridge before many years. The next bridge in

, pioneer and Indian fighter by the use of a "Henry." Andrew Jackson, "Old Hickory" loved as the apple of his eye, a "You- mans" which he owned throughout his life, and his name became immortal when he won the battle of New Orleans and the war of 1812, by arming his soldiers exclusively with Lancaster

much to do with the renown and public recognition which they gained. The subjects of this paper, Doctor Benjamin Franklin Sides and Doctor James A. Peeples of Southern Lancaster County, did not become as well known nor so famous perhaps because both of them confined their work mainly to the section in

man, ready equipped to fulfill the duties of the service required; this truth applies to every stage of our history, and was never more forcefully illustrated than in the life story of the subject of this day's theme—Emanuel Carpenter; " Judge " familiarly and affectionately called " Manny, the law

customs, the methods and the men, have all passed away together, after 100 years of wondrous activity, in which millions and perhaps billions of dollars' worth of lumber was added to our commercial and real wealth. Lancaster County will no longer see the picturesque scene of the rivermen and the

. They assumed high social position, and evinced great activity in the active life of our city immediately preceding the exciting times of the Civil War. Rosina Hubley had succeeded her husband as proprietor of the White Swan after his death in 1830 and bought the hotel from the Coleman estate in 1737