D 0 UI LC , 974.8011 C369 eia s E:ut'1 o ... ''\'"�\ P�oios PHASE I ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND PHASE II ARCHEOLOGICAL EVALUATION WABANK ROAD RECONSTRUCTION S.R. 3034, SECTION 001 LANCASTER TOWNSHIP LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA . ' E.R. 94-0039-071-A JohnMilnerAssociates Architects • Archeologists

. When Lancaster became a city in 1818, the same accommodations were used until 1854 when the Lancaster County government left Penn Square and moved to the northwest corner of Duke and King Streets. The former county office building at the corner of West King and Penn Square became the city hall. In 1874

Preservation Trust of Lancaster County 15 June 1995 • Historic Preservation Trust ofLancaster County 123 North Prince Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603 Phone: (717) 291-5861 This project was financed by a grant from the FEDERAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM and THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

free from the cancer of vice and sin, the records of the Lancaster County Court state otherwise. Upright gentlemen of Lancaster could visit the towns along the Susquehanna River, but bawdyhouses were to be found scattered throughout the county. During the 1880s an effort was made in Lancaster to form a

would never be the same. An Editor's Footnote To Abbeville In 1717 William Penn granted Hans Brubaker and Christian Hershey 1000 acres by the Little Conestoga Creek in Lancaster County, PA. On the southern portion Christian Stoneman in 1755 or John Stoner in 1756 built a small home. It measured 20 by 17

yards. The real wild west had long since passed into history, and people were more interested in the exotic, new experience of the motion picture, but as Burke says, "Most Americans it seemed, were willing to spend one more dollar to watch [their hero] fade into the sunset ..." One such American was a

Locksmiths and Locks in Lancaster County By Henry J. Kauffman The focus of this survey will be on the locksmiths and locks of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1780-1890. A review of the publications about Lancaster County reveals that nothing has been published on either of the two subjects. Such an

us a more extended reply to the ancient question "What doest thou here?" and it therefore appears courteous and proper to devote the present occasion to a brief consideration of our field and work. Let it be understood, first of all, that the Lancaster County Historical Society does not propose to