of highways. In practice, Lancaster County's magistrates (or lay justices) were the only local government. With Lancaster being chosen for the county seat as anticipated by James Hamilton, there was no hurry to develop the township government. On 1 May 1742 Lancaster was chartered as a borough. At

Tinkerers, Mechanics and Inventors of Lancaster County By John Ward Willson Loose A few caveats are in order. My essay is not an "in depth" study of each and every tinkerer, mechanic and inventor that ever worked in Lancaster County, nor does it attempt to single out every person who contributed in

cember 1918 that all Lancaster County breweries ceased making beer, Saturday midnight, 30 November 1918. One brewery was said to have had 10,000 barrels of beer on hand. Sales of beer were re­ quired to cease 1 July 1919. By this time, only five breweries were left, the Bube Brewery in Mount Joy, last

greatest number of members is situated in a sparsely populated rural county containing a few boroughs and no institutions of higher learning. This county has only a fifth of the population Lancaster County boasts. Our study would tend to show the "older" counties of eastern Pennsylvania—those which

fathers lived in the country; the re- maining 22 men lived in the city of Lancaster. The rural section was represented with six in the northeastern area, one in the cen- tral eastern sector, four in southern Lancaster County, and one in Columbia in the central western area. The Marietta-Bainbridge- Mount