THEATRE ON WEST CHESTNUT STREET, LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER. IN the summer of 1830 a large brick barn, the property of the Reigart estate, I in the first block of West Chestnut street, between Market and Prince, Lancaster, was converted into a theatre. The building was enlarged by the

, John Clement, 1876-1940. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 3-5 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 1

to the George Ross monument, on page 4, it would be better to state that this marks the site of the country home of George Ross. He �had two homes in Lancaster. His town house stood on the site of the present court house, at North Duke and East King Streets; and his country home was on Ross Street

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

brief but colorful ceremony, attended by a group of men and women prominent in business and civic affairs, the painting was dedicated and its historic setting outlined in addresses delivered by the Rev. Dr. H. M. J. Klein, head of the department of history in Franklin and Marshall College, and Pro

East King street and Penn square. 2 George M. Kline was admitted to the Lancaster bar in 1842. See Mom- bert's "Authentic History of Lancaster county," published in 1869, p. 432. �peace, as reflecting honor on your city, they know and feel, should occasion ever require you to leave your peaceful

better able to count the cost " Thomas Ashe in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress is an old and interesting book on travel in the I United States. The work, in three volumes, was printed in 1808, in Lon- don, for Richard Phillips, Bridge street, by John Abraham, Clement's