Letters Relating to Colonial Military Hospitals in Lancaster County By GEORGE L. HEIGES I N THE archives of the Pennsylvania Historical Society there are several collections in which may be found letters which give us some very definite information about military hospitals in Lancaster County

Cape Hinlopen to the Falls of the Delaware and thence westward to the Great Falls in the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Conewago Creek." 1 The Lancaster County Historical Society held a meeting on April 1 with a program commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Found- ing of Pennsylvania

written by his hand. Not a great deal is known of this early religious leader as the period of his activity in Pennsylvania was quite brief. Asserting that he had been ordained in Germany, he was accepted as a clergyman in Philadelphia, at Trappe, at Muddy Creek and �at Lancaster. He returned to Germany

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part Two —1762- 1980 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE CIVIL WAR YEARS 1862 —1867 Rev. Frederick W. Conrad, D. D. Rev. Samuel Laird. D. D. A successor to Doctor Krotel was selected in the person of Rev. Frederick William Conrad

given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven heads of families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He had landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township,3 Soon afterward he married a Miss

. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

, which after countless "trials and tribula- tions" is now firmly established as one of the most important adjuncts to the physi- cal well-being of the citizens of Lancaster County.1 THE BEGINNING Sixty-five years have gone by since June 15, 1893, when fifty people met in the old Y.M.C.A. building on

Grant to Lancaster was not included in the 1954 list of Presidential Visits to Lancaster so it must not have been known at that time. (L.C.H.S. Vol. 58, p. 84). On June 24, 1876 President Grant made a more extended visit to Lan- caster County when he was the guest of the Cameron family at Donegal

very important freight line; although from 1970 to 1975 the Pennsylvania Railroad ran a deluxe express daily from Harrisburg to Baltimore, using this route. This train is now routed through Lancaster and Philadelphia. "MILLS - One of the most noted Lancaster County mills of the olden times was the