Group of eight unidentified men standing or seated on the marker indicating the First Settlement in Lancaster County. Monument erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society in 1910 at the Brick Mennonite Church, founded in 1719 near the Hans Herr House.
Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
Pilot Jesse Jones at the controls of Ryan Brougham B-5 airplane owned by Howard M. Hersh at leased to Lancaster Airways, Inc. under an agreement dated November 8, 1929. This was the first enclosed cabin airplane available for passenger service at the Manheim Pike airport which had been established by Jones in 1927.
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Gilfillan, advisor from Media, right, and Deb Summerville, Cook Forest Chapter, left at Pennsylvania Rifle Workshop at Junior Historians 17th Life and Culture Institute.
