Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

Brethren's Church or Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church) . He came to Pennsylvania in 1741, preached at Germantown for some time, established congregations at Beth- lehem, Nazareth and Lititz, promoted Christian communistic set- tlements, and preached at different points in Lancaster County, Pa. Zinzendorf

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an

Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

of the place. Here also are the remains of 2 From Eshleman History, as compiled by Mrs. Irene R. Donovan, of York, Pa., in the library of the Lancaster County Historical Society. 3 On the farm once owned by Jacob K. Pickle. ��gallant soldiers of many wars. A large stone marks the resting place of

were taught gratuitously, and its doors were open to all. By an Act of Assembly it was required that the laws should be read in the schools." William Penn in the Conestoga Valley On the tablet erected in Manor Township by the Lancaster County His- torical Society, marking the site of Conestoga

the gift of the Lancaster County Historical Society, spoke as follows: "Mayor Cary, fellow citizens, honored guests: The tablet, which it is my honor to present to the City of Lancaster, bears this inscription: In Rededi- cation to the Spirit of / Liberty, Independence and Democracy / of which

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a