Lancaster in 1876 Observing the Centennial Year July 1 - September 30, 1876 Annotated by Dr. George L. Heiges "THE HIGH SCHOOL—Last evening on invitation of John I. Hart- man, President of the School Board, the graduating classes of the High Schools, the teachers of all the schools together with

Lancaster in 1876 Observing the Centennial Year Annotated by Dr. George L. Heiges NOTE OF EXPLANATION In selecting these news items of peculiar interest from the Lancaster dailies which appear in this series of articles the annotator found it necessary to use three different newspapers as the

a daily by 1860 under the editorship of J. M. W. Geist. By that time it had become the acknowledged organ of the Re- publican party in Lancaster County. Continuing until 1876, in that year it merged with the Examiner. Looking forward to the Republican Convention scheduled to con- vene on May

Lancaster County and the Swedish Settlement on the Delaware By GEORGE L. HEIGES1 When the Swedish ships, "Kalmar Nyckel" and "Fogel Grip" cast anchor at the present site of Wilmington, Delaware, on the 8th day of April in the year 1638, the formation of Lancaster County was not even being dreamed

Grant to Lancaster was not included in the 1954 list of Presidential Visits to Lancaster so it must not have been known at that time. (L.C.H.S. Vol. 58, p. 84). On June 24, 1876 President Grant made a more extended visit to Lan- caster County when he was the guest of the Cameron family at Donegal

in the same general area of the city of Lancaster where those early Lutherans met, their descendents and successors faithfully assemble Sun- day after Sunday. In 1729 the County of Lancaster was erected and in the following year the Borough of Lancaster had its beginning, and in that same year a

the congregation's founding in 1730. Full credit for the decorative scheme was accorded Mr. Robert Eichholtz, a son of Lancaster's renowned portrait artist, Jacob Eichholtz. Samuel Laird, D.D- 1864-1867 On Sunday morning June 10 at 10:30 the Centennial observance opened according to schedule. The

homestead in the township of Conestoga, Lancaster County, on the 8th day of June 1775. This was imme- diately after the battle of Lexington, and one year before the Declara- tion of Independence. Thus I saw the birth of our nation, and have lived under the first President, and sixteen of his successors. I

, which after countless "trials and tribula- tions" is now firmly established as one of the most important adjuncts to the physi- cal well-being of the citizens of Lancaster County.1 THE BEGINNING Sixty-five years have gone by since June 15, 1893, when fifty people met in the old Y.M.C.A. building on

military hospitals to be established in Lancaster County were at Lancaster and Manheim. In December of the same year, the Director General again reported on hospitals and stated that the hospitals at Burl- ington, Trenton, Buckingham and Skippack had been closed, and new ones had been opened at Ephrata