The Washington Association of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER Among the treasures preserved in the collections of the Lan- caster Lounty Historical Society is a little pamphlet of 16 pages, nve incnes long by three wide, entitled : CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF

Lancaster Union, Tuesday, December 22nd, 1835. THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N Vol. XXXIII, pp. 160-7, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster I County Historical Society, is an article on "The Washington Association of Lancaster." Since that paper was published, my

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

: "The anniversary of the birth of our illustrious Washington, was celebrated [Monday, February 22nd] in this city by a very handsome military parade of the Volunteer Battalion, and Captain Ringwalt's company of Washington Grays. A beautiful standard, painted by Lieut. Armstrong, was presented to the

Lancaster in 1773,—eighteen years earlier than the date on which, as is generally supposed, he made his first visit to the town. In the spring of 1773, Washington made a journey to New York for the express purpose of placing Jackie (John Parke) Custis at school in King's College, now Columbia University. He

reward a little less than two months before. Tuesday, January 7th, 1800, was observed by the inhabitants of Lancaster borough as a day "of mourning, tribulation and respect for the memory of the illustrious Washington.' A solemn procession moved through the principal streets of the borough to Saint

DID LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE PRESENT A RUG TO GEORGE WASHINGTON? By William Frederic Worner. At a meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society held in April, 1908, a booklet was received entitled: "An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon; the Home of Washington," issued by the Mount Vernon Ladies

AN OLD ATLAS By William Frederic Worner Among the treasures preserved in the library and museum of the Lancas- ter County Historical Society, is an old volume entitled: The Life of George Washington Maps and Subscribers' Names 1807 It is a small volume, eleven inches long by nine inches wide; and

BISHOP BOWMAN'S POEM* By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In view of the fact that Americans are celebrating, during the I year 1932, the bicentenary anniversary of the birth of General George Washington, the "Father of his Country," especial interest attaches to the publication of a bit of poetry written