Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Part II—The Gas Industry in Lancaster County The first gas company to successfully operate in Lancaster County was The Lancaster Gas Company chartered April 7, 1849. A gas plant was built on land purchased in the southwestern part of the city of Lancaster near Hoffman's

lines in Lancaster County. This new organization, the Pennsylvania Traction Company, took steps to acquire not only the lines to Columbia, Marietta and the "Belt," but also the city lines in Lancaster and the rural lines running to Millersville and Lititz. Consequently, on February 5, 1894, all of the

absolute historical proof has been found so far that theatre has been played in Lancaster before the War of the Revolution. But we know facts which allow us conclusions. About 1750 our city had already developed some society life. In the first courthouse rooms had been rented to a dancing school and after

Historyof Friends 0/ Friends In Lancaster County By PAUL L. WHITELY Henceforth I call you not servants; for his servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends. (John XV:15) Introduction T HE religious sect, first known as "Children of Light" and later as "Friends in the

conference be held at Lancaster since there were few communities in Pennsylvania wherein George Washington had more close friends and former comrades in arms. In 1788, Pennsylvania had nineteen counties. In the census of 1790, Lancaster County was within a small margin of ranking second in population in the

, 18 boroughs, and a city of the third class, Lancaster. Lancaster County is twelfth in size of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania and comprises one forty-fifth of the area of the state. LANCASTER TOWNSTEAD [ 22 ] James Hamilton laid out "Lancaster Townstead" in 1730 on his 500-acre tract of land, at a

and Addresses of the Lancaster vol. xxxvi (1932), p. 291. 52 Glass: et. al.; op. cit. 53 Minutes of Eastern Synod. 54 Minutes of Lebanon Classis, MS. in Library of the Reformed Church in the United States. Reformed Congregation," County Historical Society, of the Historical Society �for several years

the Delaware Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company at Clayton, Delaware. In December, 1892, he entered the construction department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with offices at Mifflin, Pa. In September, 1893, he returned to Lancaster, and on the following February

deserving of the attention of the Lancaster County Historical Society; and my appreciation is due you, my fellow members of the Society, for giving me the congenial task of preparing the story and telling it at this meeting. But before focussing on Lancaster's own part in the history, we may get a better

the representative from Lancaster County, 1791-1801. The oldest tombstone, under the chapel, is that of David Wells, who died October 15, 1764, aged 55 years. See Pennsylvania Genealogical Society publication for a record of the cemetery under the chapel. In the year 1769 the Rev. John Woodhull was