; but this, Anne Ayres states, is a mistake. Muhlenberg wrote: "The legend that it was written upon an occasion of private grief, is a fiction." Augusta M. Longacre, rn "Forges and Furnaces in the Province of Pennsylvania," states, one cannot say how truly, that Mr. Muhlenberg threw into Sarah Coleman's

, William Frederic. Title: The earliest known advertisement of a theatrical performance in Lancaster / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Reitzel's Hall (Lancaster, Pa.) Playbills--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Theater--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Advertising--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

reference to the part the community has played in the advancement of education in the great common- wealth of Pennsylvania. Almost from the beginning, the people of Strasburg manifested an interest in education, and the subject of schools was ever an uppermost topic in their minds. The earliest teachers, we

admission will be only half a dollar a ticket." Shortly after their arrival in Lancaster, Mr. Carusi and his three sons played before the home of Simon Synder. At that time Mr. Snyder was the governor of Pennsylvania, and Lancaster borough was the capital. �The Lancaster Journal of Tuesday, August 8th, 1809

, Chester county, Pennsylvania, a tract of land con- taining 250 acres in the Province of Pennsylvania, subject to a quit rent, described in the document as "yielding and paying therefore during the said terme unto the said James Philips and Elizabeth, his, wife, their heirs and assigns, the rent of one