Lancaster Gas and Fuel Company was merged into the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. In 1935, the Columbia Gas Company merged into the Pennsyl- vania Power and Light Company, the outstanding stock of the Columbia Company amounting to $60,000 and outstanding bonds to $155,000. Prior to 1935 the

Schools and education in the &rough 01 Lancaster By P. M. HARBOLD An Act of the Provincial Council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, passed February 6, 1730, permitted "any religious society of Protestants . . . to purchase or establish houses for schools, etc." In the spirit of this Act, the

reorganization ; out of it all came a new corporation, The Lancaster, Pa., Watch Company, which started the factory again in September, 1877. The payroll included only 45 names ; this grew in nine months to 63. Financial troubles persisted ; frequent changes were made in ownership of bonds and notes, and in

Early Photography in Lancaster By Rosemary A. Patterson Lancaster County! How the imagination is fired by the mere mention of the name! An eminent citizen has aptly described it as a State within itself. Many of the showy principalities of the old world may well envy its wealth, its position and

, at the "Flying Field — Lancaster Gun Club." This field was at Oregon Manor on the Oregon Pike just north of the city. Among the pilots performing was Jesse P. Jones. The promoter failed to carry out his contract, and left town without checking out of his hotel, eluding three constables. The Shriners

Libraries in Lancaster By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In 1760, when Lancaster was one of the most thriving inland cities of the colonies, and a point of interest to travellers who wished to understand America, a group of leading citizens met to form the "Lancaster Library Company." 1 This first board

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster: Prolegomenon to a Social History by Leroy Hopkins, Ph.D. in Lancaster City"s southeastern quadrant, at the juncture of North and Strawberry Streets, stands a structure which has long been connected with Lancaster"s Afro-American community: Bethel Africa

PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLVI 1942 Nos. 2 and 3 By M. LUTHER HEISEY The leading residents of Lancaster, when it was incorporated into a borough, were those who were nominated and appointed in the charter as burgesses and assistants, and a few others. This charter

Tinkerers, Mechanics and Inventors of Lancaster County By John Ward Willson Loose A few caveats are in order. My essay is not an "in depth" study of each and every tinkerer, mechanic and inventor that ever worked in Lancaster County, nor does it attempt to single out every person who contributed in

Railroad and Bridge Builders of Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY "They Builded Better Than They Knew" Transportation, ever a prime problem of the human race, received a mighty impetus in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. It was then steam was introduced as a motive power, and