--Octorara Valley (Pa. and Md.)--History. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--19th century. Octoraro Creek (Pa. and Md.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1898-99 Description: [103]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

, and is one of the finest structures in Eastern Pennsylvania. The Newport road traverses this bridge. This road was originally an Indian trail, afterward appropriated by the early settlers without warrant, but about fifty years ago was regularly ordained by the Lancaster and Chester county courts

EARLY PRESBYTERIANISM IN LANCASTER COUNTY. In conversation with our patient and indefatigable librarian, I inciden- tally remarked that the Rev. Alexan- der Craighead, formerly a pastor of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, deserved more credit for the adoption of the Mecklenburg Declaration, in

are interested in the patriotic and educational work being done by the Lancaster County Histori- cal Society, and who have in their pos- session articles that they can con- tribute, illustrative of the agriculture, the manufactures, the literature and the history of Lancaster county. In fact, anything

Corresponding Secre- tary, second only to our President in historic lore, at our last meeting, the subject of Mason and Dixon's Line was introduced, and although Lancaster county only borders on this celebrated boundary line for about five miles, limited to the southern confine of Ful- ton township, yet I

. Aster residing a short time in Phil- adelphia, Charles removed with his family to Spring Mill, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and here his children supplemented their Irish edu- cation in the parochial schools of that community. After spending two years in school, during which time he made rapid pro