GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1957 Compiled and Edited by M, Luther Heisey January 3. After ten years of research, development and testing, Hamilton Watch Com- pany placed on the market the world's first electric wrist watch, 15. A wave of arctic air hit Lancaster, sending the thermometers down

GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1956 Compiled and Edited by M. Luther Heisey Jan. 1. With the Byrd Expedition to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic are two Lancaster sailors—Russell H. Rineer and Roland M. Campbell. Jan. 4. A loan of $7,670,000 was secured by the City of Lancaster Authority to be used

of the place. Here also are the remains of 2 From Eshleman History, as compiled by Mrs. Irene R. Donovan, of York, Pa., in the library of the Lancaster County Historical Society. 3 On the farm once owned by Jacob K. Pickle. ��gallant soldiers of many wars. A large stone marks the resting place of

John Harnly (Hernly) of Lancaster County, and he in turn grants the same to John Cryder, of Huntingdon, Pa. Cryder gives to any applicant the right to construct arks of the Keller pattern for the sum of eleven dollars. Article of Agreement with John Harnly "An Article of Agreement, made this twenty

Surveyor of the Capital of Our Nation By M. LUTHER HEISEY Surveyor of the Capital, Washington, D. C., February, 1791 to July, 1793, A resident of Lancaster, Pa., from October, 1801 to November, 1813. "To this place [Lancaster] I feel more attached than to any other."—A. E. Secretary of the Land