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

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

Journal of Monday, March 24th, 1817, con- tained the following: "At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, friendly to the protection and promotion of domestic manufactures, convened at the court house on the 17th inst., pursuant to public notice, the committee appointed for that purpose

, Lancaster County, received £8. During the first two years the schools were visited regularly by Superin- tendent Schlatter and Dr. Smith. Some of the members of the trustees- general also paid them occasional visits on their journeys to the frontier. In March, 1757, Schlatter, who had resigned his

Lancaster, and as for want of powers corporate, we may be subjected to inconvenience in the pursuit of our charitable objects: KNOW YE, that in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act to confer on certain 4 Lancaster Journal, Friday, May 20th, 1831

of the Society, Subscribers' Names, &c. John Reynolds, Pr. West King-Street, Lancaster." In the introductory, which is printed on pages 2 to 8 inclusive, Mrs. Dorothy Brien and Mrs. Ann Hopkins, the directresses, state that at that time (1822) the nature and objects of Sunday-school instruction were

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

the city and county of Lancaster, for the furtherance of the objects of this meeting; and ordered that Robert Coleman, John Passmore, Molton C. Rogers, Adam Reigart and James Humes be said committee. "Resolved, That when this meeting adjourn, it adjourn to meet again at this place on Friday, the 15th