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

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

LANCASTER BOROUGH. From the founding of Lancaster till 1742, it had been moving along with- out a charter, but, at this time, the in- habitants felt they needed a stronger form of Government. The town now having three hundred houses, and all kinds of manufacturing being repre- sented, the citizens

PAYING OF EAST KING STREET Although Lancaster was laid out in 1730, and a number of streets marked down on the city plan, these thorough- fares were for many years only ordi- nary dirt roads, and no effort seems to have been made to improve them be- yond that condition until 1771, or near- ly

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

ALONG THE STREETS OF OLD LANCASTER Vast changes in customs, manner and mode of living among the people residing along these streets of this colonial inland city of Lancaster have occurred over the passing years. There was music in the air — not from phonograph or radio — but from the street organ

JOHN PEARSON'S DESCRIPTION OF LANCASTER AND COLUMBIA IN 1801 John Pearson believed that the "various abilities and different pursuits of men" should be exerted for "the information and instruction of the whole." He was one of the founders and ardent supporters of "the Friendly Society for diffusing