Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

Union League of Philadelphia without raising a soli- tary eyebrow on the well-scrubbed countenances of Philadelphia's Republican gentry. Colonel Duffy was said to have been a million- aire, and he knew how to use his money. The Farmers' Club of Pennsylvania was not exactly an agricul- tural society

presentations would be staged in Quarryville Memorial Park on a large old flat bed trailer, today's answer to the Conestoga wagon. When the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc, was ap- proached, it decided to portray the Christiana Riot of 1851 as its presentation. Your president and editor

the prospectus follow: The Lancaster Lead Mine is situated at Marticville, Lancaster Co., Pa., and promises to be one of the most valuable mines of the Atlan- tic States. The occurrence of lead ores in almost all of the States has long been known, and most of the lead ores have been tested by Pro

affiliated with the Lutheran Ministerium of Penn- sylvania until 1953 when all (excluding the Missouri Synod churches) except Lancaster's Holy Trinity Church became members of the General Pennsylvania Synod during a realignment. Later the Lancaster church joined the CP Synod. Many of the rural congregations