name of George Washington. The greatest of them all is WASHINGTON — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The capital of the United States. The Cornerstone of the capital building was laid in 1793 and built in the Renaissance style. Extensive additions have been made to both wings since 1850. The material used was

, about a mile below Washington Boro. This was the river termination of the famous Long Lane, which passed westward from Chester county through Strasburg. That Blue Rock was used by the white man as the crossing point of this old trail for many years earlier than 1730, was discovered by Albert Cook Myers

above is a picture, consisting of two allegorical representations of Fame, holding a shield between them, over which rests an open book, with these words dis- played: Rights Of Man. Immediately below the picture is the following inscription: PLAN Of the CITY of Washington, In the Territory of Columbia

. Sally Kennedy Alexander (a great-granddaughter of Ellicott), April, 1896, in Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D. C., vol. 2, p. 176. 2 Ibid. 3 A trait of L'Enfant's personality is revealed by the charges he made for his work. It shows the exalted opinion he held of his

its possibilities were brought into mind, by accidentally running across the report of the debate in the United States Senate in 1836, the last year of Jackson's Administration, when the award of a monumental work in front of the Capitol building, in Washington, to a particular Italian sculptor, was

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

location of these churches which, with the exception of Little York and Mount Vernon, were within the boundaries of Lancaster County. Charlestown was one of the two communities that were joined to form Washington Boro. Mount Vernon and the later Russellville were stations in Chester County. In Lancaster

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

mixing. In a series of urban riots that erupted in New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Blacks and their property were subjected to mob violence. Columbia was no exception. William F. Worner has provided a concise and insightful account of the Columbia Race Riots of

, June 23rd, 1931, by State and county officials at the unveiling of a bronze memorial tablet to perpetuate his memory, by The Pennsylvania Society of The Colonial Dames of America. The exercises, held in the armory at Columbia, were attended by approx- imately one hundred and fifty persons