Edison Electric Company embarked on a real expansion pro- gram throughout the county. Volt lines which always ran co- linear with those of the Conestoga Traction Company were ex- �tended to such communities as Christiana, Elizabethtown, and Mount Joy. It would not serve our purpose to mention every

The First Columbia &i4 By Robert H. GOODELL On March 28, 1809, an act of Assembly was approved, which authorized the Governor of Pennsylvania to incorporate a company for the purpose of making and erecting a bridge over the Susquehanna. River in Lancaster County, at or near the town of Columbia

-story brick �The ancestry of Adam Diller as recorded by Ellis and Evans in their History of Lancaster County, page 535, is as follows: Ancestry of Adam Diller, the Founder Casper Diller of Huguenot descent, 1675-1775, settled one mile south of New Holland, Lancaster County. Philip Adam Diller, 1723-1777

Keller and others, and for a period of over forty years did efficient building and con- tracting, retiring in 1892. Mr. Reilly built many of the trolley lines in Lancaster. His railroad work included the Reading and Columbia, the East Pennsylvania Road between �Allentown and Reading, and many other lines

, Stiegel named the township for his wife. See the Names of the Townships, by Joseph H. Dubbs, Vol. I, No. 3, Lancaster County Historical Society. F. A. God- charles, in his Pennsylvania History, says the township was named for Queen Elizabeth. 2 The Horseshoe Pike, which was laid out from Downingtown to

of Miss Montgomery, died on the hill. He was one of the most active of the ironmasters, and was generally esteemed according to Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County as a "genial, kind-hearted, and enterprising gentleman." Abram Musselman's children were all educated in private schools. His