Interior. Saint Michael's Lutheran church, Strasburg. �STRASBURG ACADEMIES By William Frederic Worner The history of Strasburg village and borough, Lancaster county, Pa., is so intimately associated with educational matters that it would not be com- plete, no matter how carefully written, without a

WHEN WAS STRASBURG ERECTED INTO A TOWNSHIP? When I came to arrange some stray notes pertaining to the early settlement of the locality embraced within the limits of Strasburg township as it was bounded one hundred and sixty-five years ago, I found a good many snags in my way. Some of the earliest

THE STRASBURG SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY by William Frederic Worner What cannot art and industry perform When science plans the progress of their toil. Beattie. Not long since Miss Virginia B. Clark, presented the writer with a lit- tle pamphlet, 4x61/2 inches in size, which was found among the papers of

- selves and those whom they saluted. As they passed and repassed the governor's lodgings he appeared and returned their salute. 1 The Intelligencer and Weekly Advertiser, Wednesday, December 18th, 1799. Opposition to Cherry Fairs in Strasburg By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday

stockholders to assemble at the public house of Jacob Hoover in Strasburg to elect seven directors to manage the affairs of the Strasburg Rail Road Company. This meeting was held Monday, June 29, 1835. 22 Public documents do not record election results. It is interesting to note that the names of the

Strasburg Rail Road and the Pennsylvania Rail- road at Leaman Place, Paradise Twp. as it appeared about 1905. Leaman's Hotel, long since gone, is on the left. The station was torn down about 1928. The Penn- sylvania main line (long before electrification) is on the left and the Strasburg track is in the

history.48 The eventual fate of the 1912 Carroll Car is not known. It was never sold and became Carroll Aument's personal property. The one existing photograph, which shows the car with 1916 New Jersey License, presumably was taken when Aument visited Strasburg while an employee of the Simplex Automobile

REMINISCENCES OF STRASBURG. The first settlements were made in 1709 by the Swiss Mennonites on the banks of Pequea creek. The name Strasburg was no doubt brought with them from their native country, but in the organization of Lancaster county in 1729 and the division into townships there seemed to

Saint Michael's Lutheran Church, Strasburg. BY WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER. Strange visions of the storied past From years long gone arise, And bid me tell the quaint old tales They form before mine eyes. Tales of the men of former days Of those who built her walls, The men upon whose peaceful graves

years, the distinction rested upon a school found in the opposite direction of the county, old Sandstone School of Strasburg Township. Since 1815, and continuing at the present time, it holds an unbroken record of one hundred and twenty-one years of service to the children of that community. In the