, The Pennsylvania State Marker, a cast iron mold engraved sign, which stood along the old road (now inside of the Farm Museum land) was re-located to a site on the corner of route 272 & Valley Road, a major intersection. It reads: Issac Long Barn. The United Brethren in Christ and The Evangelical

, "whose influence has carried on through the years in the splendid public school system we now have in Pennsylvania and the fine old coloniaI College of Franklin and Marshall." Dr. Schaeffer related how Rev. Mel- sheimer personally raised funds for the school building, which was erected on a plot of

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

seventh of August, will unanimously present my name as their candidate to the people of Pennsylvania. This powerful appeal, proceeding as it does from 'Old Democratic York,' would, if any circumstance could, shake my resolution. Before its receipt, however, I had fully determined not to become a candidate

being welcomed by Washington F. Hambright, ad- jutant general of the national Grand Army of the Republic and past depart- ment commander of Pennsylvania, both were presented to the audience, and delivered brief addresses. The building was tastefully decorated with flowers and American flags. The

, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

mark the anniversaries of the Paoli massacre and the adoption of the Federal Constitution. will go down in the chronicles of the Society as a worthy chapter in the series of its illustrious records that now em- brace the Fulton, the Hans Herr, the Christiana riot and the Hand celebra- tion, all of

became, next to Judge Yeates, its most popular member. He was one of Lancaster county's delegates to the Philadelphia convention which met to adopt a State Constitution on July 15, 1776, and on August 5 became a member of the General Pennsylvania Council for Safety, created by the State Constitution. He