The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

CONESTOGA By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 75-113, of the Proceedings of The Lan- Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster." In that paper the author, the late William Uhler Hensel, Esq., de- scribed, in minute

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

is the fourth marker erected in Lancaster county by the Historical Society as a memorial to the American Indians—our earliest inhabitants, presumably. The bronze tablet, from the studio of the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, was placed on the shaft by the Haldy Marble and Granite Works ; and

--Lancaster County. Sunday schools--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Episcopalians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 134-139 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 9 & 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v

confined to Lancaster city. Societies were or- ganized in several towns in the county. There were two organiza- tion in existence in Columbia as early as January, 1833. The one for the white population, held its meetings in the town hall.7 Thomas Lloyd was its secretary. The colored society held its meet

, as the country became developed. It is not known when the first horse-race was run in Lancaster borough and county? Information on the subject is quite meager; and most of the 1 In a paper entitled, "Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lan- caster County," written by Herbert H. Beck and

the site of the village of the Nanticoke Indians, at Indiantown, Clay township, Lancaster county, Pa. A red sandstone boulder had been removed from the hills a short distance from Indiantown, by members of the Eberly and Brubaker families, and on it the commemorative tablet was placed. Owing to the

McCall's Ferry Company By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, pp. 131-144, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled, "Some Early Lancaster County Bridges." In that article the author, the late S. M. Sener, Esq., described the bridge at McCall's