teacher of the school. The centennial was one of the biggest events in the history of Lancaster County schools, and was attended by over six hundred people. Instrumental music was furnished by the Lincoln Military Band. The vocal music was under the direction of S. G. Hipple, a teacher in the township

THE SCHOOL AT BAKER'S CORNER One of the First Public School Buildings in Rapho Township by D. M. BAKER Up in Rapho Township, at the intersection of the Green Pine Hill road with the public road leading from Mount Joy to Mount Hope, stood a log building, which was erected in 1830 as a "temple of

years, the distinction rested upon a school found in the opposite direction of the county, old Sandstone School of Strasburg Township. Since 1815, and continuing at the present time, it holds an unbroken record of one hundred and twenty-one years of service to the children of that community. In the

James Wright home" on Sunday, September 25, 1938, when the Lancaster County Historical Society unveiled a bronze tablet placed on the wall of this old stone mansion during the Sesquicentennial of Columbia, This tablet was designed and worded by Dr, Herbert H, Beck, president of the Lancaster County

Pennsylvania, was chosen president, and James Humpreys, a vestryman of Christ church, Philadelphia, secretary of the conven- tion. The church at Lancaster was represented by its indefatigable missionary, the Rev. Thomas Barton, who took an active part in the work of the convention. He seems to have been gifted