. Worner supplementary to series of H. Frank Eshleman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser (newspaper) Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description

were unanimously adopted : �"Whereas, the practice of horse-racing in general, and more especially in and about the neighborhood of Lancaster, is highly in- jurious to the morals of the people and introduces a spirit of gam- bling, detrimental to society ; and "Whereas, it is understood that sundry

commenced in June, 1829, and will be completed about Christmas, at an ex- pense of about $30,000. "Mr. Campbell, the contractor, who is an architect of great ingenuity, enterprise and industry, though engaged in several other extensive public works, has pushed forward this operation with great industry and

, and our artist has here executed a mural painting which we hope will be a lasting memorial of an interesting episode in our early history, and, at the same time, a praiseworthy monument to his own artistic skill. "My own contribution has been only that of financial encour- agement; which, when

laid with a flat piece of cast iron about two feet and a-half square. This he ordered removed and relaid with brick. After removing the plate where it had lain probably eighty or a hundred years, as the house is one of the oldest in that part of the city, he had it turned over and the underside cleaned

.)--History--Errors, inventions, etc. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 104-106 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Notes: "Seeing America's Garden Spot, Lancaster: the Red Rose City of Pennsylvania" Call Number