Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

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

from the upper reaches of the Conestoga. ANALYSES AND CRITICISMS Critics of the clarity and palatability of the water supply are by no means of a modern order. In 1744, Witham Marshe was in Lancaster as secretary of the Maryland Commissioners, who, with those of Virginia and Pennsylvania, held the

unveiling of the tablet to the memory of Count Zinzendorf, at the home of D. Paul Hershey, located on the old Newport Road, one mile north of Lititz, Pa., on Sunday, Oc- tober 11th, 1936. The actual unveiling was done by Mary Jane Hershey, the ten- year-old daughter of Mrs. Sue Snyder Hershey, whose family

Clockmaker's Company of London, and advertised this clock extensively �in "Commonwealth Mercury," a newspaper of London, on November 25, 1661. A picture of a Fromanteel clock in appearance is almost an exact counterpart of most of our Lancaster County grandfather clocks, which were first made in this county

, August 29, 1937, at 3 P. M. (DST). After the sounding of a bugle call, Dr. Herbert H. Beck called the meeting to order, and the act of unveiling was assigned to Mrs. C. Fisher Ehrehart, a great-great-grand- daughter of Melsheimer. Due to the proximity of state highway route No. 23, with the attendant

owned by John H. Musselman, of Lancaster, Pa. �Capitol of the State at Sacramento was adorned with his life-size portrait, and so while his whole purpose in coming to California was to advance his personal fortune, it is as a public and political figure, whose influence is being recognized more and more

accomplishments! There is no mention of his scholastic ability and appointments, or of his labors in scientific fields. As A PASTOR After his resignation in 1779 as chaplain of the Dragoons, Rev. Mel- sheimer visited Lancaster County. Several writers tell us he preached in Dauphin County until 1784, but that