a considerable dis- tance, and who has been familiar with the land for miles around from boy- hood, told me that within a mile of the rise of the Conestoga, half a dozen springs empty into the main stream, which, as I traced it, crosses the county line into Caernarvon township, Perks county, at a

Thornberg. Subsequently Mar- shall bought the Thornberg property also,and then owned five-eighth of the entire front on Orange street. His house was the third from the Lime street corner. It was a stately brick mansion, three stories high, with base- ment. It is still standing, but is now much changed. An

County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--19th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [72]-84 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 3 Call Number

wondrous birth was developed, that are the con- cern of history and philosophy. That the Quaker and German wave of settlement halted for a time at least at the Conestoga Creek, while the Scotch-Irish pressed forward and pre- empted the fair country lying between the Conestoga on the east and the Sus

. September 19, 1887. The regular monthly meeting was held Messrs. Hiller and Zahm, from the Archæological Committee, reported the sites of several Indian villages and graves they had visited during the summer. Adjourned. October 17, 1887. Dr. Dubbs read and presented to the society a manuscript history of

HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, An Act of Vandalism. The following is an excerpt read by S. M. Sener, Esq., from "The Oracle of Dauphin," Harrisburg, Pa., under date of 6th of January, 1820: "The Lancaster Free Press contains an advertisement of the Trustees and Elders of the German Reformed Church in the

been a score or more of them. But this is diverging from my theme. The Lancaster borough of 1797, like the Lancaster city of 1899, was not burdened with an overflowing treasury. The gap of bad streets between the Conestoga on the east and the Lancas- ter and Susquehanna Turnpike at the west end could

early as 1811. In all : I I fully 150 journals have from time to time been published in this city. There are at present four daily evening pa- · i • ·1 • lf./J� pers, one of which is in the German language, and one morning da1 y. iflil t.11, i{/// 40� Among the public institutions may be mentioned : two

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Debt--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1901-1902 Description: [3]-7 p. ; 23 cm. Series