east of the river, through the gaps in the South Mountains, coming close to Lancas- ter County at Paxtang, near Harrisburg; Quitipihilla and Swatara, near Lebanon ; and Tulpehocken, near Reading. The only direct invasion of Lancaster County (as at present constituted) occurred in Donegal Township

been said, is worth a thousand words. Often it tells its story better than words ever could. One of the first publica- tions in Lancaster to use pictures—that is, the photo-engraving- was the booklet, "Resources and Industries of the City of Lancas- ter," published by W. U. Hensel in 1887. In a few

gathering in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, June 29, 1762, at 7 o'clock, Squire Kuhn and Mr. Stiegel, of Lancaster County, arranged an artistic and pleasant program of church music. 2 Stiegel was an accomplished musician, having had a pipe organ in his mansion at Manheim, and was cap- able of leading his

shillings, "to sell rum by the small." Among them were Christopher Franciscus, John Miller, Samuel Bethel and Casper Loughman. 1 From the ·Charter of the Borough of Lancaster, as printed in Mombert's History of Lancaster County. �46 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY We feel that at times, less scrupulous

first great highway from the coastal cities. Naturally, Lancaster was among the first towns to secure postal facilities. In this section the first and nearest available postal facilities were in far-off Philadelphia, at which point letters for settlers in the "back country" �The Pennsylvania Gazette of

had established the Juliana Library, it being one of the five libraries then in Pennsylvania. In another two years (1752), Henry Miller and Samuel Holland were printing newspapers in the old town—the Lancaster Gazette, a bi-lingual paper. The population had grown to 1500. Another two years pass and

proprietary med- icine on which the tax was required to be paid. Here is the interesting story of the men, the medicine and the stamps they used. BENJAMIN MISHLER was born in Reamstown, Pennsylvania, sixteen miles northeast of Lancaster on the Reading Pike. He first saw the light of day on August 12, 1814

hours and five minutes—an astounding feat for that day. He was the trusted engineer of the "Clearfield," one of the fastest locomotives of the line. His fireman, William F. Lockard, later became a high official of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1850, Mr. Franciscus was employed by the New York and Erie

Lancaster, April 5, 1858. Leaving school when thirteen years of age, he started at the bottom round as water boy in 1871, and kept climbing until 1898 when he retired as a successful railroad contractor. From 1884 to 1889 he was master stonemason for the Frederick Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad