Lancaster County's Literary Tastes Of The Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries By John Ward Willson Loose Modern historians have focused much of their attention on intellectual history, that is to say, what did our progenitors think about, what influenced their thoughts, and how did they

Continental Congress to the present time, there have been nine places that have hosted the government of the newly-indepen- dent states under the Continental Congress, the Articles of Confederation, and the present Constitution. They are: Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Baltimore, Md. Philadelphia, Pa

progeny - Bob, Charles and Tom having predeceased their Aunt Madeleine. Holly and her three sons, Spencer, John and Dan Silverthorne, were present, as were Sandy's wife, Susan, and John's wife, Faith. Jack and Marian's children, Kenny and Lydia, were also present for much of the time. My sister, Eleanor

gentlemen. The seats are divided into two sections by three four-foot-wide aisles, and there are three wide emergency exits to the fire escape on West Chestnut Street, which is regarded by architectural experts as the safest and most substantial of its kind to be found. Here, too, no posts are in evidence

symbolic of children in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. and Marshall College. David Longenecker, first president of Lancaster Cem- etery, was also a director of the Conestoga mills and president of the Lancaster Bank. Together with other prominent individuals with surnames such as Lane

permanent organization, and the Society adopted principles that have guided it through a century of service during which its contributions to historical scholarship have been many and of the highest calibre. We may wonder what would have happened had there not been a nine-year hiatus. On 20 April 1896

seemed to offer an opportunity, but after struggling unsuccessfully for three years, Mr. Burkholder gave up on it. He rented a portion of the building to Lottie Hess, who tried to run a restaurant, but she gave up after a year and Mr. Burkholder sold the building to John Schreck. Mr. Schreck found a new

organized the previous month in Washington, D.C. Baer was a delegate (recorded in the Proceedings as "Lieutenant Colonel Bear, of Pa.") to the organizing convention held Jan. 22 through 24, 1866. The Grand Army of the Republic was not organized until April 6 of that year in Decatur, Ill. and on Jan 16, the

early surveyors "raked" the two-mile square three degrees to the west, resulting in Queen Street being three degrees off perpendicular. The two-mile square divided Lancaster Township and cut off a wedge from the bottom of Manheim Township. Post- World War II annexations to the city have created numerous

Three Nineteenth-Century Lancaster Theatres By James Henke, Ph.D. Landis Beitler's "Circus" Sometime prior to 1818, Landis Beitler converted a building that stood on the southeast corner of Prince and Orange Streets into a theatre. As the building was sometimes referred to as the "Circus," it is