materials relating to the history of Lancaster county, and that the time has come for the organization of a County Historical Soci- ety, herewith take the liberty of inviting you, as one known to be interested in the subject, to meet with them on Tuesday, November 16th, 1886, at 10 o'clock, a. m. in the

from view. After these ceremonies, the exercises were adjourned to the historic church of Donegal, a few yards distant, where the Hon. Marriott Brosius, M. C., and a member of the Lancaster County Historical Society, delivered the elo- quent and valuable historical address herewith printed; a noble

the hotel. In the only fragment of the minutes which still exists I find the following: �"At a special meeting of the Stock- holders of 'The Wabank House on the banks of the Conestoga, in the county of Lancaster,' held at the office of the Company in the city of Lancas- ter, on the 24th day of March

. 1829. Boquet, or Ladies' Library Portfolio Keepsake. Anti-Masonic Opponent. 1830. Lancaster Examiner. Lancaster Beobachter. 1831. Lancaster Republican. Standard of Liberty, and Lancaster County Democrat and Public Advertiser. 1833. The Inciter. 1834. The Lancaster Register. Lancaster Union. 1835. The

--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

County Historical Society, 1901-02 Description: [103]-113 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.6 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

accompanying cut- The legend carved in the prominent oak lintel over the front door tells the story; here it is: It was built by the Rev- Christian Herr, a minister of the Mennonite per- suasion, and one of the earliest set- tlers in the county, having come hither from the Palatinate in 1709. The house stands

something about the last one of its kind still in active operation in Lancaster county, and which was visited by the writer one day this week. The First One. Before I speak of this mill, a glance at these mills a century ago and more will not be out of place. So far as the writer knows, the first fulling

recorded, after an illness of eight or ten days. He says preparations were �made at the Court House for a grand burial in the afternoon of the 24th, at the Lutheran Church. The vestry gave an invitation and permission for him the Oath of Allegiance. Among the on the day mentioned. Under the same date he