of Distillers By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of distillers of Lancaster county was held at John Whiteside's tavern, in the borough of Lancaster, on Saturday, November 11th, 1815. Jacob Miller was appointed chairman, and John Rohrer secretary.' The distillers met for the purpose of preparing a

The Charity School Movement in Lancaster, 1755 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In a population numbering less than a quarter of a million people in Pennsylvania in 1755, it is estimated that about 80,000 were Germans. In 1749 the number of German immigrants reached its maximum; the records show that

and adopted as the Constitution of the Lancaster County Temperance Society :1 "Whereas, it is now generally known and conceded that the habitual use of ardent spirits is neither necessary to health nor to the successful prosecu- tion of any business, trade or profession; but on the contrary, that it

, as the country became developed. It is not known when the first horse-race was run in Lancaster borough and county? Information on the subject is quite meager; and most of the 1 In a paper entitled, "Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lan- caster County," written by Herbert H. Beck and

SITE OF NANTICOKE INDIAN VILLAGE MARKED. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER On Sunday afternoon, October 16th, 1932, more than four hundred mem- bers and friends of The Lancaster County Historical Society braved the rain to attend the exercises incident to the unveiling of a handsome bronze tablet marking

--Lancaster County. Sunday schools--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Episcopalians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 134-139 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 9 & 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v

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

the James H. Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was erected on that part of the venerable building now owned and occupied by The Lan- caster County Historical Society. The exercises incident to the unveiling of the tablet, were in charge of Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County

is the fourth marker erected in Lancaster county by the Historical Society as a memorial to the American Indians—our earliest inhabitants, presumably. The bronze tablet, from the studio of the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, was placed on the shaft by the Haldy Marble and Granite Works ; and