The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

. County Commissioners, Christian Hershey, Joseph Paxson and John Lan- dis advertised for proposals for building a bridge across the Conestoga at Mr. Abraham Peters' mill. It was to be two hundred and fifty feet in length between the abutments, to consist of two spans with a pier in the center. �Hugh Long

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS ALONG LIME STREET, LANCASTER, PA. By M. LUTHER HEISEY The logical starting point of our sketch of Lime street, from its begin- nings, and of some of those who at one time had, or now have, their homes on this thoroughfare, is East King street. There, on the northwest corner