The article describes how congressman Griest , for whom the Griest building in Lancaster is named, advocated for Lancaster County's tobacco industry by arguing against the removal of tariffs on cheap Philippines tobacco and by acquiring federal funding to raise the national profile of Lancaster County's tobacco industry.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 120, number 4 (2020), p. 248-277Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.120 n.4
A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 : In which is sketched a history of that church and congregation from 1741 to the present time
Report of the trial of Castner Hanway for treason, in the resistance of the execution of the Fugitive slave law of September 1850. Before Judges Grier and Kane, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Held at Philadelphia in November and December, 1851. To which is added an Appendix, containing the laws of the United States on the subject of fugitives from labor, the charges of Judge Kane to the grand juries in relation thereto, and a statement of the points of law decided by the court during the trial
The charge was in connection with an attempt to arrest Noah Buley, Nelson Ford, Joshua Hammond, and George Hammond on a warrant issued under the Fugitive slave law, claiming them as slaves of Edward Gorsuch of Maryland.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
The article surveys the following topics: The purchasing of tobacco by agents; warehouse architecture; the sorting and packing that took place in the warehouses; and some of the companies and their owners who built the warehouses.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 120, number 4 (2020), p. 210-245Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.120 n.4
History of the Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church and congregation, of East Earl township, Lancaster county: a colony from the church of Pequea. Read before the congregation on the day their church edifice, as remodelled, was dedicated to the worship of God, August 31, 1853
Boyd's Lancaster county business directory. The names of the citizens of Lancaster: state, county, and city record; and an appendix of much useful information. 1859-60
Essays, read before the Lancaster County teachers' institute, held in Fulton Hall, Lancaster City, January 26th, to January 31st, 1857, inclusive. Together with the names of the members of the institute
