Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

Continental Congress to the present time, there have been nine places that have hosted the government of the newly-indepen- dent states under the Continental Congress, the Articles of Confederation, and the present Constitution. They are: Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Baltimore, Md. Philadelphia, Pa

school history classes, and co- ordinating the functions of historical groups and places throughout the county. It is not the purpose of this survey, however, to consider the effectiveness of county historical societies in fulfilling their real objectives. Each society knows its reasons for existence

Society's first venture in original publications. The 1883 Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County and the 1875 Everts and Stewart Atlas of Lancaster County have been reprinted by the Society. A. Hunter Rineer's magnum opus, Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pa., published posthumously in