A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

RockSpringsand Surrounding By HERBERT H. BEM Rock Springs and Indian Bowls Rock Springs, in southern Fulton Township, Lancaster County, are prob- ably unique in America. It is doubtful if their combination of extraordinary geological and archaeological characters exists anywhere else. As one of the

awards: The Cloister Chapter, advised by Mrs. Shirley Bischoff, won the third annual Twin Region Alumni Historians history fair "Best of Show" for its project entitled: "Death is a Way of Life." This chapter also was presented with the Lancaster County Historical Society Award given to the outstanding

History of St. John's (Center) Reformed Church, &tot Ear/ Township, Lancaster County By GLENN WEAVER Introduction About mid-way between the small towns of Terre Hill and Bowmansville, Pennsylvania, on a small hill overlooking the lovely valley of the Black Creek, stands a small country church—rich

LANCASTER TOWNSTEAD. Copyrighted May, 1901, by S. M. Sener. "Out upon Time! It will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before." On February 6, 1729, the settlers in the back districts of Chester county, of the province of Pennsylvania, prayed the Council of the province for a divi

THE FEMALE SUNDAY-SCHOOL SOCIETY OF SAINT JAMES'S CHURCH, LANCASTER William Frederic Worner Mr. William A. B. Halbach, a member of one of Lancaster's oldest fami- lies, has kindly presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society a pam- phlet, 4 by 5 inches in size, that contains much of local

Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

of that width northward a like distance. This conveyance was in trust "for erecting, keeping or holding a market within the Town of Lancaster for the ease and conveniency of the inhabitants thereof and others having oc- casion to resort thither." Just when a market house was first built upon this

TWO NOTABLE MINING INDUSTRIES OF LANCASTER COUNTY By H. Luther Willig While the bounteous harvests of her fair fields have made Lancaster County as the "Garden Spot of Pennsylvania" her past mining industries have added additional luster to her name through the discovery of the rare minerals

OLD LANCASTER, This paper makes no pretension to being exhaustive. Most of it is only a "twice-told tale," familiar to many of you. There is too much of interest in the early history of this fair city of ours—too much of importance—for this to be more than a brief sketch of a few prominent items