The Infant School Society of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N September, 1831, the Infant School Society of Lancaster was organized ; and a room for the sessions of the school was secured in the Lancaster County Academy building,' which stood on the east side of North Lime street, near

THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Lancaster Journal of Monday, December 30th, 1816, con- conontained an announcement that those favoring the organization of a German society, for the relief of distressed immigrants, were requested to attend a meeting at John Erben's

CONTINENTAL STABLES IN LANCASTER By JACOB HILL BYRNE, ESQ. T HE lot of ground on which the building of The Lancaster County His- torical Society stands, 307 North Duke street, Lancaster, was part of an original tract of 500 acres. William Penn, Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, by deeds

far as can be learned from its original minute book, which is now lodged in the Lancaster Law Library. The "Purpose of the Society" was for the improvement of its members in legal knowledge and forensic eloquence. It was customary to have the president of the Society, who was called the "Judge," to

Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim