teacher of the school. The centennial was one of the biggest events in the history of Lancaster County schools, and was attended by over six hundred people. Instrumental music was furnished by the Lincoln Military Band. The vocal music was under the direction of S. G. Hipple, a teacher in the township

THE SCHOOL AT BAKER'S CORNER One of the First Public School Buildings in Rapho Township by D. M. BAKER Up in Rapho Township, at the intersection of the Green Pine Hill road with the public road leading from Mount Joy to Mount Hope, stood a log building, which was erected in 1830 as a "temple of

years, the distinction rested upon a school found in the opposite direction of the county, old Sandstone School of Strasburg Township. Since 1815, and continuing at the present time, it holds an unbroken record of one hundred and twenty-one years of service to the children of that community. In the

owners / by Mrs. Mary L. Robinson. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Atkins family. Mills and mill-work--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907 Description: [24]-29 p. ; 23 cm. Series

James Wright home" on Sunday, September 25, 1938, when the Lancaster County Historical Society unveiled a bronze tablet placed on the wall of this old stone mansion during the Sesquicentennial of Columbia, This tablet was designed and worded by Dr, Herbert H, Beck, president of the Lancaster County

: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

AN OLD TILE AND ITS OWNER. The old-fashioned, baked, clay-tile, which I take pleasure in presenting to our Society, was taken from an old bake house in Heidelberg township, Lebanon county, several weeks ago, on property once owned by Leonard Holstoner. The house to which it was attached is a very

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report

Judge Yeates house on South Queen Street had some fine examples doubt- less replacing some mantels of an earlier date. An old house at 132 South Queen Street, razed some years ago, had an early example of this type of mantel that is preserved in a Lancaster home. Num- erous other examples are known to

him of the uses these buildings had been put to more than a hundred years ago that the presence of that straw was accounted for. Of course, the old building underwent great changes during its conversion into dwelling houses, and the latter give no evidence of the earlier uses to which they had been