such as the infamous "Columbia race riots" of 1834/35. Although the Underground Railroad and the "Christiana Riot" exemplify local resistance to slavery, it would be mistaken to think that the majority of Lancaster Countians were abolitionists or advocated the cause of the people of color. This is

. Hoogenboom 1980. History of Pennsylvania. the Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, 633 pp. Kraybill, D. B. 1989. The Riddle of Amish Culture. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 304 pp. �Lemon, J. T. 1972. The Best Poor Man's Country: AGeographical Study of Early Southeastern

." In addition to the Colonial's resident orchestra, for the grand opening of his theatre, H.E. Doan had gathered a "galaxy of stellar talent from the Keith, Orpheum and William Circuits." These acts included: "Mme. Besson & Company, in The Woman Who Knew; Neff and Starr, The Musician and the Telephone

County Historical Society archives along with the restored second battle flag of the 79th PVI which was reported in the possession of the post. According to History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, the post was chartered with 20 members and during its existence had

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

, but is inherent in the entire ur­ ban landscape. Colonial Lancaster Title to the land now known as Pennsylvania was transferred to William Penn in 1681. Penn conceived his colony as a place of religious toler­ ance, where land would be held by small land­ owners, rather than by a privileged class as

midway, in front of the original market building. �66 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY How The Green Dragon Was Born Most businesses have some interesting history, but the Green Dragon came into being in a sort of trial and error metamorphosis. Some time during the 1920s a Mennonite

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

colonists who had failed to accord them the legal protections that William Penn and his agents promised the native peoples of Pennsylvania more than half a century before. During the years preceding the Revolutionary War, the settlement of Wright's Ferry witnessed a steady flow of emigrants into the western

given by the military or the federal government.10 The United States Army Military Institute in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and the Lancaster County's Veterans Affairs Director, George Worthington, were both helpful in confirming this. I found the five volume history of the 28th Division during the