A History Of An Old Frame Grist Mill Converted Into A Schoolhouse and of the Ancient Durlach Schoolhouse by DAVID G. EBERLY It is beginning to be more and more the custom of holding annual reunions at rural schoolhouses in our section of the county. On Sunday afternoon, August 18th, 1935, the

letter is indecipherable. It might be taken for an M or an A. In Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 373, it is stated that Michael Hubley served as Assistant Burgess of Lancaster Borough in 1765. �

proposal being prior to the organization of Conoy and the division of Donegal, would have resulted in having included therein the entire northwestern portion of the county as now constituted. �Another petition, proposing a new county from parts of Lan- caster, Dauphin and Lebanon, to be called Conewago

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

of "A History of Aviation," as it relates to our own Lancaster county. In the newspaper world, with which I am familiar, history is a thing of hours, or a day. Stale news is lost in the limbo of history; and, as history is being made every hour and every day, I believe that I am on safe ground. As a

A VISIT TO HISTORICAL SCENES* (Describing a visit to Lancaster, Pa., in July, 1926) By HARRY PRINGLE FORD It was a rare privilege recently to visit the attractive city of Lancaster, Pa., sixty-eight miles west of Philadelphia, with its wealth of historical asso- ciations and its many evidences of

street, near Front street, with Shawanese Indians as his neighbors. The rising tide of travel and traffic focussed toward Wright's Ferry. We can lend our imaginations to-day to these travel lines of man and beast. We can see herds of cattle wading and swimming after their lead-ox led from a canoe across

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS ALONG LIME STREET, LANCASTER, PA. By M. LUTHER HEISEY The logical starting point of our sketch of Lime street, from its begin- nings, and of some of those who at one time had, or now have, their homes on this thoroughfare, is East King street. There, on the northwest corner

20th, 1818, it was created into a city. However, a number of inhabitants were opposed to the expense of operating a city form of government and desired to return to the status of a borough. Within two years and a half after the incorporation of the city, a public meeting was held, at the house of John