, "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

CONTINENTAL STABLES IN LANCASTER By JACOB HILL BYRNE, ESQ. T HE lot of ground on which the building of The Lancaster County His- torical Society stands, 307 North Duke street, Lancaster, was part of an original tract of 500 acres. William Penn, Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, by deeds

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

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

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

The Memorial Marker to General John Augustus Sutter By M. LUTHER HEISEY Not the magnet of gold—but respect for the character of the man that gold, rather the discovery of gold, ruined—General John Augustus Sutter— drew hundreds to the staid, quiet old town of Lititz, Pennsylvania, for the occasion

was, after all, the domestic hearthstone that these folks sought along the banks of our life- giving river. "Peter Bezaillion, the trader, came to Pennsylvania while Wil- liam Penn was in the midst of his activities ; and the Conoy Indians brought their teepees from the Potomac while Anne was queen

Stiegel, was dedicated in the graveyard of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church, Manheim, Pennsylvania, the erection of which attracted an unusual amount of interest, due, no doubt, to the traditions and sentiinents which have gathered about the name of "Baron" Stiegel. It is highly fitting that The

Danish West Indies in 1739, and Pennsylvania where he arrived in 1741, after landing in New York. A good part of the two years in America he resided in Philadelphia, from which point he visited or estab- lished many, if not all, of the well known Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania ; and it was during