the Conestoga Indians, of the visit of their dis- tinguished patron, William Penn, and of their ultimate destruction by the Paxton Boys. The details of this legend will presently be furnished by per- sons amply qualified, but the theme itself suggests a personal incident and a personal sentiment

, Wright as your dis- tinguished guest speaker will, no doubt, give you a detailed history of this famous Quaker, This town of Columbia has a rich historical background, It was first named Shawnee Town by the Indians, later Wright's Ferry, then on September 25, 1788, one hundred and fifty years ago today

Count Nicholaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXERCISES INCIDENT TO THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLET IN HIS MEMORY By M. LUTHER HEISEY The clear skies and crisp atmosphere of a delightful October day brought together an assembly of several hundred people to the celebration incident to the

Historical Markers of the Heritage of the United Methodist Church in Lancaster County by The Reverend Abram W. Sangray The following Roadside Markers were put in place in Lancaster County, in the summer of 1984, as a bicentennial project of the United Methodist Church of Lancaster. Each description

. About the circular edge of the raised bronze work surrounding the head of Ful- ton is a fitting legend. It was the work of Tiffany's artists in New York. The other tablet is in the form of a conventional shield and is of bronze, of about the same dimensions as the one just mentioned. The accompanying

Signers And Ratifiers Of The Constitution Of The United States By MRS. CHARLES M. COLDREN Of the eight Pennsylvanians who attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and became signers of that immortal document, seven are shown on the plate opposite page 178. The upper four bear a direct

of Lancaster for assistance. It was also stated in this paper that a meeting would be held at the house of George Fisher, "for the purpose of adopting such measures as may afford assistance to the distressed sufferers by the late fire at Portsmouth." Committees were appointed to solicit subscriptions

crossing the Delaware, that awful and icy Christmas night, his portraits were always in profile. Exactly how and when Gen. Hand acquired "Rockford" the records in the Lancaster county Court House fully tell. It seems that on Septem- be- 14, 1785, the executors of James Davis, of Lancaster, for a considera

PAYING OF EAST KING STREET Although Lancaster was laid out in 1730, and a number of streets marked down on the city plan, these thorough- fares were for many years only ordi- nary dirt roads, and no effort seems to have been made to improve them be- yond that condition until 1771, or near- ly

steeds, elephants and clowns, and at the end a calliope whose wail is no longer heard in the land. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West of cowboys and Indians is now part of a Passing America. Even the wooden Indian no longer blows smoke rings before Kasper's Cigar Store. He is reposing somewhere in a museum