/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Title: Petition of sundry citizens of Cocalico presented to the County Commissioners in 1782, reporting their distress from tempest and flood. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Floods--Pennsylvania--Cocalico Township. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--1775-1865

of credit and well deserved prominence to Manor Township. He has done something that will permanently place his name on the Historical records of his County and his State. Those who contribute time, thought or money to recording local history are public benefactors who in many ways serve the best

Ode to the United States on its Bicentennial and to the Rededication of its People to the Principles of the Declaration of Independence by Rabbi Samson A. Shain Rabbi Samson Aaron Shain was a good friend of the Lancaster County Historical Society, and was a dear personal friend of the editor. His

the pion- eer settlers of Lancaster county. To look back two hundred years is a long vista, suggestive of many changes in the conditions, habits and thoughts of these people and their de- scendants. A parallel between 1710 and 1910 could be drawn and made both inter- esting and instructive, and I have

REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

period that have come down to us. Indeed, I know of nothing of a similar nature concern- ing Lancaster city and county at the period covered by this diary that is at all comparable with it. He was an educated man, a man of affairs, much concerned and connected with what was going on around him, a person

an impressive expression of a people's belief in a government organized on the basis of the Common Law. We celebrate tonight the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the granting of a Charter to the borough of Lancaster. What is a Charter? It is an instru- ment for permitting and encouraging the free

, referred to by many as the Poor House, but more popularly known as the County Home (designated as Building No. 4) was built on a hill in direct line with Building No. 2, and about a half city square to the eastward. It was authorized and construction began in 1874 and was completed in 1876, at the cost of

chose to study two urban communities and two southern rural townships in the county, since most Lancaster Negroes lived in the �southern part of the county and in these two urban areas.'° The two townships selected, Drumore and Fulton, and the two urban com- munities, Lancaster City and Columbia borough

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The