. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857. Abbeville (Lancaster, Pa.) Lancaster (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [45]-58 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 11, no. 2 Call Number

THE WABANK HOUSE. Lancaster city enjoys almost un- equalled advantages of location in many respects. She sits on an ele- vated limestone ridge, which secures her the advantage of excellent health and satisfactory drainage. Along her eastern and southern borders winds one of the most beautiful

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER IN LANCASTER COUNTY. It will be generally conceded, I think, by those who have given the matter any attention or who are acquainted with the facts, that there is no city of equal size in the country more given to newspaper reading than Lancaster. It is to-day sup- porting

Early German Printers of Lancaster. I regard it as not a little to the credit of Lancaster city that twenty- one years after it was organized into a municipality,in 1751, a German print- ing press was set up within its limits. This contrasts very favorably with what occurred in the city of Philadel

THE NEWSPAPERS OF LAN- CASTER COUNTY. In 1896 1 was induced to attempt the compilation of a bibliography of the newspapers, magazines and other pe- riodical issues of the press in the city of Lancaster from 1752 down to that time. Two or three previous attempts, and very successful ones, too, had

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series

became the County Prothonotary soon after coming here, and held the office until 1778. In early life he laid out and founded Shippensburg, Pa. He was the Chief Burgess of Lancaster at the time of the Indian massacre at the Working House. His son, Edward Shippen (1729-1800). was the father of "Peggy

and believed was in store for them- And their hopes did not, in most cases, go unrealized. In the fulness of time the early difficulties were sur- mounted- The clearings in the for- ests grew larger. Larger barns were required to house their crops. Other buildings were needed to shelter their cattle

its final washing, it was thicker and narrower than before. Then it was colored as the owner had directed, after which it was dried, trimmed and rolled and ready for use by its owner. Home-Made Clothes. Most of the garments in the country were made by the wo- man of the house and her daughters. There

applied to defraying the expense of paving the streets in the borough of Lancaster: Section 1. Be it enacted by the Sen- ate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and it is hereby �enacted by authority of the same, that Edward Hand, Paul Zantzinger