south, the Long Swamp to the north, and the Roaring Brook rushing along what is now called Water Street! New Lancaster was on a "detour." The Great Conestoga Road, or Long Lane, passed some miles to the south of it; Old Peter Bezallion's Road and the Paxton Pike passed it many miles to the north. Even

on the first floor of the municipal build- ing on North Duke Street. The tablet was unveiled by Miss Hildegarde Pil- gram, a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Sebastian Graff, who was burgess in Lancaster Borough in 1742. This was a definite linking of the present to the days of old. In

the days of old, and thousands of worshipers, as of yore, Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. — Psalm 100:4. �SOURCES OF MATERIAL Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 438, et seq. Klein's History of Lancaster County, vol. 2, p. 703, et seq. Memorial

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

local photography or photographers in any histories of Lancaster County or in the writings of Robert B. Risk. �1845. One of them is a view of the south side of West King Street, from the present residence of Prof. Wm. B. Hall, to Centre Square. Some of the old buildings are to-day very much as they were

journey into the interior of the Province." Then adds the obvious fact: "it was made on horseback." Surely not a long journey for one not yet thirty-nine years old. The Indian chief Kekelappan of Opasiskunk1 conveyed to Penn on the 10th [of September, 1683], all his rights to lands along the Susquehanna

shillings, "to sell rum by the small." Among them were Christopher Franciscus, John Miller, Samuel Bethel and Casper Loughman. 1 From the ·Charter of the Borough of Lancaster, as printed in Mombert's History of Lancaster County. �46 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY We feel that at times, less scrupulous

. 398. 2 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 36, p. 226. 3 Tradition tells us that this youthful post rider, Christian Wolf, while in Philadelphia in 1777, awaiting the mail for the journey to Lancaster, learned of the adoption by Congress of an American flag. He hastened on the return

driving the old redware out of the market." 6 The Gasts Coming as immigrants to America through the port of Balti- more, the Conrad Gast family finally settled in Lancaster, finding a haven in a log cabin at Prince and James streets. Starting in the pottery business the pioneer Conrad prospered, and