GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

- defined road or combination of roads from Philadelphia to Lancaster county was known, at least in part, as "The Great Conestoga Road." The town of Lancaster had then no existence, and the road to which I refer ran considerably to the south of where that town was afterwards located; but, when Andrew and

, blacksmiths, Conestoga wagon builders and nearby fulling mills gave employment to many per- sons, and an air of prosperity was evident to the traveler. The Pennsylvania Gazeteer of 1798 thus describes the town at that date: "A post town in Caernarvon township, Lancaster county, Pa., distant twenty miles from

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 77-86 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 22

Ferdinand A. Demuth. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Sun Fire Company (Lancaster, Pa.) Fire departments--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Fire fighters--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Fires and fire prevention. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Elser Family. Mills and mill-work--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 51-59 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16

bit of astrology / by R. K. Buehrle. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Astrology. Superstition--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 268-271 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of

the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the