village. Just below the southern boundary of Lancaster County, on the Susquehanna River Shore, stands a bold promontory of rocks called "Bald Friars." Why they were so called no one knows definitely, but the name "Friars" indicates that the known visits of Catholic missionary priests to that vicinity in

. Brosius. At the time Father Brosius was in Lancaster, he was working on a book for publication entitled: "Reply of a Roman Catholic Priest to a Peace-loving Preacher of the Lutheran Church." It was a volume of 196 pages and was printed in Lancaster by John Al- brecht & Co. and published in 1796. The

also responsible for effectively organizing the Columbia blacks in opposition to the Columbia Colonization Society.21 The African Methodist Episcopal and African Baptist Churches dominated the religious life of the four black communities. The African Methodist meeting houses in Fulton township were the

church-believing people cannot be sup- pressed. The building of the 'two original churches, though changed through the years, stand today as a memorial to a once-great mining community. NOTE'S 1. Jack Locher, ed. "A History of Mining in Lancaster 'County: 1700-1900" in Journal of the Lancaster County