wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

Lancaster to Chambersburg daily 84 61,320 9,500 Lancaster to Gettysburg thrice 50 15,600 West Chester to McCall's Ferry ... (circuit) once 86 4,472 250 Mount Joy to Marietta thrice 8 2,496 150 Elkton, Md., to Lancaster once 50 5,200 260 Lancaster to Bristol once 106 11,024 600 Lancaster to Columbia once 12

Penn- sylvania Railroad passed from our midst. He started as a fireman on the state-owned Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad in 1846, and then years later became an engineer. When the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in 1857, took over the Columbia and Philadelphia line, it acquired Mr. Jefferies also

gathering in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, June 29, 1762, at 7 o'clock, Squire Kuhn and Mr. Stiegel, of Lancaster County, arranged an artistic and pleasant program of church music. 2 Stiegel was an accomplished musician, having had a pipe organ in his mansion at Manheim, and was cap- able of leading his

afternoon, May 3, 1766, the church-officers, together with Rev. John S. Gerock, and Dr. Henry M. Muhlenburg met, and agreed upon the following programme: 1. To-morrow, at 9 A. M., May 4, being the Sunday Rogate, the invited ministers and deputies of the united congregations will meet in the School- house. 2

clays and shales.”24 From the United States Census of 1860 we learn that Lan­ caster County had seventeen brickmaking establishments, with a capital investment of $35,325, employing ninety-six persons. The annual cost of labor was $23,028, and the annual value of products was $41,575.25 In 1887, there

East King Street;" in 1870, "Elias Barr, publisher, home Lime near Church Street." Mishler's 4c and 6c Internal Revenue Stamps The debts incurred because of the War Between the States were respon- sible for the inception of an organized revenue system in the United States. On July 2, 1862, President

, 1845. Shepherd, William Robert. History of Proprietary Government in Pennsyl- vania. Columbia University Press, New York, 1896. Proceedings Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 2, pp. 3-27, 223-237, vol. 11, p. 118. NOTE. This paper, abridged, was issued to the city and county schools as a service

, two views Bridge and stream Glen and Pavilion at Wild Cat Falls Columbia Bridge and Wrightsville, from Chestnut Hill A Bit of Lancaster County, view 65 A Country Home "Ferndale," Columbia and Donegal Railroad Scene west of Columbia, vieW 5-3 Mount Gretna, view 7 Collier's Cabin at Mount Gretna, vieW 7