Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

assistant district attorney 1960-1964, and was elected district attorney for the term 1964-1968, and in 1971 he was elected a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania Second Judicial District (Lancaster County). Judge Bucher declined to seek reelection for a second term, and has served since as a

Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Part II—The Gas Industry in Lancaster County The first gas company to successfully operate in Lancaster County was The Lancaster Gas Company chartered April 7, 1849. A gas plant was built on land purchased in the southwestern part of the city of Lancaster near Hoffman's

, Witmers and Zimmermans all came from eastern Lancaster County and their descendants are many whose homes are now in Waterloo County. Space and time prevents me from going into a detailed history of each. In conclusion I want to say a word of the journey from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada. The distance of

prominent part the Pennsylvania-Germans bore in the Civil War. Many names familiar to Lancaster county, notably Eshleman and Shenk, are found in the records of the Confederacy, where the story of their valor is recited. General �Roller paid a glowing tribute to these brave spirits. But, despite the cir

accused of crimes was the lowest of any county of the ten studied for Pennsylvania in these years, including counties like Westmoreland, Bedford, and Northumberland, with shorter histories and smaller female populations. Twenty-four percent of Lancaster women brought to court as the accused had surnames

reached by that time: At a meeting of delegates of the eighteen Grand Army posts of Lancaster County, resolutions were adopted indorsing Major H. Y Breneman for election to the position of Senior Vice Commander of the Department of Pennsylvania by the next State Encampment. The only survivors of this

as that dedicated to domestic architecture," said Hallam. How true this is regarding the early architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Here we can find a large part of the history of the days of our forefathers recorded in the walls of the houses they built. From the time of the earliest home