Materials £.322. 13. 4. a mile, and the Labour of farming, placing and banking, &c., is about 9 d. per yard, which will be £.66 more, amounting in the whole, for Materials and Labour, to £.388. 13. 4., Sterling, for every mile of finished Road. But when we are speaking of Roads in Pennsylvania, I know it

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Transportation Collection, 1819-1977 Object ID: MG0123 2 boxes 32 folders 1 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7 Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 4 Scope and Content

The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life

Early Manufacturing In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1710 - 1840 Part I Carlton 0. Wittlinger Messiah Co.Jlege Grantham, Pa. Published as Volume 58, No. 6, of the Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society �Table Of Contents l:E Chapter I The Natural Environment. Chapter II The People and

The Lancaster Stage Dispatch Lancaster, in the early days, was one of the busiest, if not the very busiest, stage town in the United States, and, as the old geographies tell us, it was also the largest inland city. As far back as 1754, Governor Pownall, in describing the main roads around

I. EXTRACTS FROM MORAVIAN DIARIES AT BETHLEHEM (Relating to Early Events in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) Made by Dr. John W. Jordan and Sent by Him to Hon. Charles I. Landis, at Lancaster, Pa. DIARY I. 1768 Feby. 12 Hopson & Henry with 2 other citizens settled a dispute with Mel- choir Schneieder and

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

; thence along said creek 12 perches; thence 354 perches to Robert Ellis' land; thence 85 perches to Moses Martin's land; thence 334 perches to the division line between Lancaster and Chester Counties."* Frank R. Diffenderffer writing of roads and highways mentioned three prominent highways in Earl

THE FAMOUS SPEECHOF HON. THADDEUS STEVENS OF PENNSYLVANIA IN OPPOSITION TO THE REPEAL OF THE COMMON SCHOOL LAW OF 1834, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 11, 1835 PUBLISHED BY THE THADDEUS STEVENS MEMORIAL ASS0CIAT10N OF PHILADELPHIA 1904 �" I will be satisfied if my epitaph