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

. D. Spring, 1989 Pequea, PA �THE DIARIES OF WILLIAM T. CLARK (B. 1836 - D. 1911) OF CHESTNUT LEVEL, DRUMORE TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA Dating from his enlistment in: CO. B, 79th PENNSYLVANIA VETERAN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT SEPTEMBER 12th, 1861 To NOVEMBER 30th, 1865

The Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Joint Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States and Franklin College By DR. HORACE R. BARNES The four days, October 14 to 17 inclusive, will go down in the history of Lancaster County as one of the outstanding periods in the long and

Mifflin. Commissioned 1st Lieut. by the Governor, Oct. 10, 1794, Lancaster Co. Troop Light Dragoons. Ellis and Evans' Hist. of Lancaster Co., p. 585. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 4, p. 495. Buried in Mt. Bethel Cemetery, Columbia, Pa. BOWMAN, Henry: b. Feb. 8, 1763; d. Sept. 21, 1841. Pvt. in Capt. Robert

EXTRACTS FROM THE EARLY COURT RECORDS OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. By H. WILSON EARLY APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS TO SERVE IN WHAT IS NOW LANCASTER COUNTY W ILLIAM PENN, proprietary and governor, made the first appointments of justices for the Province of Pennsylvania. Succeeding governors continued to

A History Of An Old Frame Grist Mill Converted Into A Schoolhouse and of the Ancient Durlach Schoolhouse by DAVID G. EBERLY It is beginning to be more and more the custom of holding annual reunions at rural schoolhouses in our section of the county. On Sunday afternoon, August 18th, 1935, the

Cape Hinlopen to the Falls of the Delaware and thence westward to the Great Falls in the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Conewago Creek." 1 The Lancaster County Historical Society held a meeting on April 1 with a program commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Found- ing of Pennsylvania

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

and perfect quiet maintained in the Camp. 7Capt. John H. Druckemiller diary, Lancaster County Historical Society, October 18, 1861. 8 Capt. John H. Druekemiller diary, Lancaster County Historical Society, November 30, 1861. 9 Major General Alexander MeDowell MeCook, the highest ranking of the fourteen