making the apparatus needed. It is said on good authority that Dr. Fahnestock ground the lenses for his camera and made the boxes, slides, and other apparatus necessary to take a picture." The earliest photograph existing in Lancaster today was taken by Dr. Fahnestock in 1845. It is a view of West King

make ascensions in Philadelphia, Lebanon, Reading, and Lancaster. The John Wise Era John Wise, America"s most famous aeronaut, was born in Lancaster in 1808, and was a resident of Lancaster for many of his seventy-one years. As a boy, he experimented with kites and tissue paper parachutes, and Mont

freedom was Penn's prime motive for obtaining that right in the New World and throwing it open to all who were oppressed in their European homelands. Agriculture always has been an important part of the Lancaster County economy, and early settlers sent glowing letters to their homeland describing the

The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform

The Lancaster County Judiciary: Reflections on Tradition By Wilson Bucher In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with gener- ations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. —JOHN DOS PASSOS For, backward

The Washington House Inn By Jean Miller DeChant The Washington House Inn, currently the home of the Lancaster Storage Company, can speak imaginatively about the Inn's history from its inception for use as a hostelry in approximately 1887-1892, through a recent owner's extensive description of the

Lancaster was the last civilized outpost on the western frontier during the French and Indian wars its workshops already were turning out wagons, guns, clothing and numerous items for the protection of the Pennsylvania hinterland. Who can say how many of those artisans and mechanics "invented" day-by-day

- distinguishable from the many churches that populate Lancaster City and County. The following essay is an attempt to correct this situation by enumerating readily available facts, analyzing recently discovered informa- tion, and indicating problem areas for future research. Currently it is not possible to

fondly known by Bethel's older members, recorded her reminiscences of Bethel from her earliest memories of the church as a girl of seven years up to that date. Her account has frequent lapses because of her absence from Lancaster for several decades but she does provide factual information from the

accused of crimes was the lowest of any county of the ten studied for Pennsylvania in these years, including counties like Westmoreland, Bedford, and Northumberland, with shorter histories and smaller female populations. Twenty-four percent of Lancaster women brought to court as the accused had surnames