County Community Council exists to promote community team work. Its members may be departments of government, organizations whose members must live largely within the County, and individuals interested in the well-being of the county. Application for membership is made to the executive committee. In

County Antimasonic Party in national and state affairs. Secondly, I shall disclose how the Anti- masonic Party completely dominated local politics in Lancaster County for more than a decade, and why this particular county was so receptive to this "peculiar movement." Lastly, I shall point out many of the

Lancaster County Politics:1799 - 1810 Alan Kreider The preeminent fact of the political history of America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is the decline of the Federalist Party and the ascendancy of Jeffersonian Republicanism. Pennsylvania in many ways epitomized this trend

conceal its historical significance, the reader should understand that 1830 marked the end of Democratic Party control of Lancaster County, and that Caldwell's contentions may have been symbolic of the county mood toward stewardship and in- tegrity of local government officials in 1830. That those strict