Boehm's Chapel was erected on the old Boehm farmstead, at the time oper- ated by Jacob, a son of Martin Boehm. Henry Boehm wrote the following history of the building of the chapel. Boehm's Chapel is distinguished for its antiquity, It was the first Methodist house of worship in Lancaster County. The plan

South Queen Street and began a series of discussions which led to the formation of the Lancaster General Hospital. Various patriotic and fraternal orders had been invited to send representatives to this meeting and responding to the call were members of the Junior American Mechanics, Red Men, Knights of

. �Alexander Hood who introduced Douglass came to Lancaster in 1839 to be the editor of the "Lancaster Union". He continued as the owner and editor of that newspaper until 1842. Then having been admitted to the Lancaster Bar in 1844, for the rest of his life until death in 1875 he practiced law and held

there in a big barn of a structure dubbed the "Wigwam," Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was nominated for the office of President and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for the office of Vice-president. From Lancaster newspaper items of 1860 we have attempted in this paper to piece together the campaign of that year

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

Lancaster Daily Express commented: The meeting will be a very important one and no doubt a very interest- ing one. The delegates are arriving and though there will hardly be so full an attendance as would have been the case but for the national difficulties yet there will be a strong delegation. We

alley and on the east by another fourteen foot alley." Hamilton asked no cash payment for these two choice lots in the very center of the town, only requiring that "the said Society pay �unto the said James Hamilton His Heirs & Assigns at the Town of Lancaster on the first day of May yearly hereafter