A History of Sin and Vice: Lancaster—The Fallen Angel By John W. W. Loose, FLCHS in a community remarkable for its many churches and the reputed piety of its citizenry, the very thought of sin and vice is improbable. In this time of social disintegration and family dysfunction, it is not uncommon

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster

apprenticeship started, and until his twenty-fifth year, Beissel experienced all the fleeting pleasures of reckless youth, becoming somewhat of a violinist during the process. His chroniclers have confided that Beissel was in his glory at any festivity of young men and maidens. Then something happened. Beissel

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

The Mathiot Family of Lancaster County BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE One may wonder why a family named Mathiot is significant enough to merit research beyond the private confines of genealogy. Although the Mathiot family is observing its two hundredth anniversary in America and Lancaster County this

Clio's Century: A History of Lancaster's Cliosophic Society John Ward Willson Loose Few communities in the nation can boast an anomaly quite like the Cliosophic Society. The arts of conversation and genteel discussion, alas, no longer seem to be part of our national culture. Literary societies have

, Lancastrians had begun to think about matters his- torical. Literate Lancaster Countians had on their parlor tables Isaac Daniel Rupp's History of Lancaster County, published in 1844. During the 1850s township and county maps on wooden rods for hanging on walls became popular, especially if the maps depicted