Books, Papers, etc., belonging to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia to the Borough of Lancaster as follows." 6 From Scharff and Westcott's "History of Philadelphia." Washington, D. C., became the capital of the nation in 1800. See also "Andrew Ellicott, Surveyor of the Capital of Our

. To make a towing path for horses; . . . From the mouth of Conestoga to Turkey Hill, From the foot of Bear's Islands to Fulton's Ferry, From Columbia to Chickisalunga Rocks, From the Maryland line to the foot of Bear Islands, from Fulton's Ferry to the mouth of Conestoga, and from Turkeyhill to the

the Lancaster General Hospital at 322 North Queen Street. This structure was the hospital from December 1893 until April 1896. Photo courtesy Lancaster General Hospital Department of Public Relations ��(Left) Hon. David McMullen, first president of the hospital. Born in Penn Township, 1844. Died in

Wh en Lancaster Was Pennsylvania's Capital BY GEORGE L. HEIGES Continued from Vol. LVII, p. 108 In the late fall of 1807 politically-minded Pennsylvanians were looking forward again with anxiety to the approaching session of the State Assembly. It would be the last gathering of the Commonwealth's

November 30, 1805, took on the nature of a triumphal procession; and according to one news report brought out the biggest crowd of curious citizens that the borough had witnessed any time in its history. 23 John Dickinson was a Philadelphia lawyer and member of Continental Congress, author of "Letters from