; but this, Anne Ayres states, is a mistake. Muhlenberg wrote: "The legend that it was written upon an occasion of private grief, is a fiction." Augusta M. Longacre, rn "Forges and Furnaces in the Province of Pennsylvania," states, one cannot say how truly, that Mr. Muhlenberg threw into Sarah Coleman's

, William Frederic. Title: The earliest known advertisement of a theatrical performance in Lancaster / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Reitzel's Hall (Lancaster, Pa.) Playbills--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Theater--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Advertising--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

Society of Pennsylvania in Philadel- phia, in the Taylor Papers. They in- clude practically the whole county. Those ante-dating 1729 themselves make a good-sized list. In many cases five or ten, or even twenty-five separate tracts, are found in one con- nected draft. One who had the leisure and

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

give to you the result of my inquiries concerning this subject. I know you will pardon all deficiencies. Dr. Julius F. Sachse, in his inter- esting article, entitled "Wayside Inns on the Lancaster Pike," published in volumes 21 and 22 of the proceedings of the Pennsylvania German Society, says that in

, is still standing in the fifth block of North Queen street, on the west side. It was known originally as "The Store House," and was built by the State of Pennsylvania at an early period of the Revolutionary War, for the housing of military supplies. February 27th, 1788, an act was passed by the