, in 1820 and 1821. See Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County. Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneer and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1883). 543-544; and the undated clippings of articles written by Francis Xavier Reuss, an old Columbia

The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

Ferree's on King Street Thos Bull, Roger Kirk and Abiah Taylor at Peter Hoffnagle's on S. Queen Street The Lancaster County assemblymen lodgings: Jacob Strickler and Richard Keys at Mr. Barton's; Alex. Scott on East Orange Street; Daniel Buckley at Peter Hoffnagle's, and Jeremiah Brown and John Hopkins at

amusements that has ever been exhibited in this town will be presented," was satisfactory evidence that theatrical performances were known to the citizens of the staid old borough prior to the year 1800. Recently, while searching the files of an old German newspaper established in Lancaster more than one

Handkerchiefs DOW WM.. Y A SCARFS. OLD SANTA CLAUS S itt3IF ., ERISMAN PAF IP o15. E A: account of Christmas in Lancaster in 1874 us older readers ers. The following article is a e of excerpts from the 26 December 1874 issues of The Intelligencer and The Daily Express. Drug I Dry Store Site Northern Market

brewers of Phil­ adelphia published an "Address to the Farmers of Pennsylvania" in which the farmers were urged to raise more barley. At that time 600,000 bushels were used in Philadelphia breweries in a year, and most of it was obtained from New York at prices of seventy-five to ninety cents per bushel

currency which condition was the subject of much correspondence between Adam Hubley of Lancaster and Jos. Reed Pres. of the Supreme Executive Council. As an example of this let me mention the experience of Peter Becker a Revolutionary Soldier who had received $300.00 in gold for his services, which, he

paper, or papers, for each individual sufferer, to afford to each �contributor an opportunity of distributing his or her donation as he or she may think proper, an estimate being first incorporated. by said committee in each paper of the amount of the loss of each sufferer." In the Lancaster Journal of

been received for the sufferers and deposited in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania. Collections for the Sufferers from Fire in Lancaster in 1823 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, July 25th, 1823, near midnight, the inhabitants of Lancaster were awakened by the cry of fire. It originated in the