visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

statutes then current should be incorporated into Pennsylvania statutes. This library, now at the Lancaster County Historical Society, is considered the fourth most important library of its kind in the nation. Lancaster Countians not only have been readers; they have been authors. The first history of the

nearby Mill- ersville. It, too, had a pair of debating societies: Page and Normal. In those �50 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY days teachers' minds were expected to be cultivated and suitably embellished with thoughts so elevated that their pupils would develop an insatiable love for

Lancaster County, Wright having served since 1717. Cornish and Hendricks had been appointed in Chester County in 1724. All were Quakers, or members of the Religious Society of Friends. At the November session of 1729, Andrew Galbraith and Thomas Edwards were added as justices. Edwards was appointed a

JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1985. Janice C. stork, a Democrat and Lancaster's first female mayor, was elected in 1989, defeating the Rev. Mary Lou Broucht, Republican. Lancaster's borough and city officials conducted their business in at least six buildings during the past 250 years

also to erect the Broad Street Opera House and a mansion for the superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In Lancaster his projects included the Southern, Eastern, Western, and Central Market buildings; the Stevens House Hotel, eight school houses, two banks, two churches, and many commercial

Philadelphia and meet at Lancaster, which they did on 27 September 1777. Their paths thither took a northern route, arching through Berks and Northampton counties to avoid any British patrols that might be lurking in central Chester County. Upon reaching Lancaster, members of the Congress discovered the town

A Henry J. Kauffman Sampler of Antiques Professor Henry J. Kauffman is well-known to most students and antiquarians of Pennsylvania German culture. This busy octogenarian continues to produce books on the arts, crafts, and architecture of southeastern Pennsylvania — especially the Pennsylvania