The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

the committee in charge of the program, spoke briefly of the Conoy Indians whose tents formerly clustered along the Susque- hanna at this point, and expressed his deep appreciation of the efforts of the members of The Lancaster County Historical Society and others who assisted in making this monument

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

, Charles Huston, Jno. Kennedy. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Lancaster District I, Samuel A. Houston, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of said Com- monwealth for said District, do certify, that at a Supreme Court, held at Lancaster for said District on the twenty-eighth day of May, A. D., one thousand

the board of managers may direct. 7. "Any member, by giving a written notice to the secretary, may at any annual meeting withdraw from this society; or any member violating his pledge, may be expelled by the voice of two-thirds of the members present. 8. "Any association within the county of Lancaster

advertised to be run over the course at New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., for a purse of sixty dollars. The race was to consist of two mile heats3 and repeat; it was open for any horse, mare or gelding; and each horse was required to carry 140 pounds. An entrance fee of three dollars was required, if

the site of the village of the Nanticoke Indians, at Indiantown, Clay township, Lancaster county, Pa. A red sandstone boulder had been removed from the hills a short distance from Indiantown, by members of the Eberly and Brubaker families, and on it the commemorative tablet was placed. Owing to the

the James H. Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was erected on that part of the venerable building now owned and occupied by The Lan- caster County Historical Society. The exercises incident to the unveiling of the tablet, were in charge of Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County