: 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

, especially with regard to the history of Pennsylvania. With the melodious words of Mifflin stilll• lin- gering in the air he was impelled in the first place to also pay a eulogy to the poet. He wondered whether the people of �Lancaster County realized the heights he has attained. By some he has been compared

claim that there were 36 separate printing establishments in Lancaster county during the seventy-eight years between 1752 and 1830, while Philadelphia had only 47 in the 102 years between 1728 and 1730, or eleven more than we had, although she had the advantage of twenty-four more years to her credit

Earliest Reformed Church in Lancaster County. The early history of Lancaster county gathers around its ancient churches. In colonial days, far more than at pre- sent, the church was the centre of so- cial life; and those who would study that life in its more recent develop- ments should not fail to