: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

-Irish--Pennsylvania. Historical markers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Donegal (Pa.)--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1899-1900 Description: [44]-62 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

documents--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Tax assessment--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History --18th century. Land grants--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Deeds--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th

creation of the county it is herein purposed to set forth the relations of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to the Province and later to the State of Pennsylvania and also to the Nation. We shall be able to show the remarkable service which this county contributed to province, state and nation, in our

no more inter- esting chapter in our local history than that which shall fully go into the details of the newspaper history of Lancaster county. There cannot be a more fruitful or interesting field. Has any one here any idea of the number of newspapers and other publications that have been born in

tract sur- veyed by Amos Strettle, in Strasburg township, and by him subdivided. That purchase grew out of a 5,000- acre tract based upon a bargain (Re- corder's office—U., 108, and Rupp's Lancaster County, p. 77) with Penn. In his list in the same book (Appen- dix III., p. 436), Rupp mentions thirty

important facts connected with the ten historic buildings, which, as you see, the artist has brought into special prominence. They were the most conspicuous structures in the then borough. With the history of most of these buildings you are all more or less familiar, but there are several not so well known

MARSHALL'S DIARY IN ITS RELATION TO LANCASTER CITY AND COUNTY. Of the many names associated with the Revolutionary annals of Lancaster county, few deserve to be held in greater respect, or are better entitled to remembrance, than that of Chris- topher Marshall. At the same time I feel I am quite