patients were shackled to these pillars and slept on beds of loose straw. Planning Enlarged Hospital Facilities June 20th, 1840. At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Poor and House of Employment of Lancaster County: Present, J. Peters, Pres't, Dr. John Witmer, John Rohrer & T. Rodgers

Street.) 4 The County The County of Lancaster is the fourth oldest in the State, having been formed from Chester County in 1729. In size it is now twelfth of the sixty-sev- en counties in Pennsylvania and comprises l -45th of the area of the State. The population being 234,717, it is now classed as a

The Along the Conoy creep BY JACOB N. OLWEILER Editor's Note. As a correspondent of the old Lancaster Examiner, over thirty-two years ago, Mr. Olweiler wrote about the Conoy mills. This story, in practically the original form, was read by him before the Lancaster County Historical Society, April 10

greatest number of members is situated in a sparsely populated rural county containing a few boroughs and no institutions of higher learning. This county has only a fifth of the population Lancaster County boasts. Our study would tend to show the "older" counties of eastern Pennsylvania—those which

Ages Britten—Old Clocks and Watches, 7th Edition Dreppard—American Clocks and Clockmakers Eckhardt—Early Pennsylvania Clocks Eckhardt—Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers Magee—Grandfather Clocks, Their Making and Makers in Lancaster County Moore—The Old Clock Book Nutting—The Clock Book Palmer—The Book

seniority only to George F. K. Erisman, who has been a member for 49 years. Mr. Villee has served in the Pennsylvania State Firemen's Associa- tion since 1915, and has been vice president from Franklin County. His memberships include: Lancaster County Firemen's Association (since 1924), Firemen's

Lancaster County place name, it was given to the first packet built in Lancaster (and in fact in Pennsylvania) in 1828. This vessel was used on the Conestoga Navigation between Lancaster and Safe Harbor until 1833. There was a steamer, plying between New York City and Albany, called Robert Fulton, owned by

Lancaster County in 1776. Dele- gate from Lancaster County to Constitutional Convention of 1787. Commissioned Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1791. Died at Lancaster, March 14, 1817. �THE LAW IN JUDGE JASPER YEATES'S LIBRARY Jasper Yeates' law library consists of one thousand and forty-three

?" I have the answer right here: What Lancaster County might well do is encourage the formation of a corporate association to consolidate what our Com- monwealth has done, and plans to do, under the direction of the non-partisan, non-political, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Our

-ordinators of traffic, of their times. �BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 Achievements of Americans, Henry Howe, 1858. 2 Annals of Old Harrisburg, George Morgan, 1858. 3 History of Lancaster County, Rev. J. I. Mombert, 1868. 4 The Pennsylvania Railroad, William B. Sipes, 1875. 5 History of Lancaster County, Ellis and Evans