GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1957 Compiled and Edited by M, Luther Heisey January 3. After ten years of research, development and testing, Hamilton Watch Com- pany placed on the market the world's first electric wrist watch, 15. A wave of arctic air hit Lancaster, sending the thermometers down

that reached almost to the door- step of Lancaster Borough, and gave Thomas Cresap title to the Isles of Promise, there was down below Fisihng Creek an island of seventy-five acres, appearing like a dark sugar loaf, claimed by the County of Cecil in Maryland. Now the permanent abode of a pair of bald

. Whether you can believe it or not, the story is told of a sled going down Dinah's at such speed that it was impossible to stop or turn aside as a freight train approached on the Water Street tracks directly in their path. They lived to tell the tale because their helmsman directed the "modoc" under the

John Harnly (Hernly) of Lancaster County, and he in turn grants the same to John Cryder, of Huntingdon, Pa. Cryder gives to any applicant the right to construct arks of the Keller pattern for the sum of eleven dollars. Article of Agreement with John Harnly "An Article of Agreement, made this twenty

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return

of the place. Here also are the remains of 2 From Eshleman History, as compiled by Mrs. Irene R. Donovan, of York, Pa., in the library of the Lancaster County Historical Society. 3 On the farm once owned by Jacob K. Pickle. ��gallant soldiers of many wars. A large stone marks the resting place of

her as a prize of war. In 1867 she was sold and renamed. In the spring of 1884 the former Harriet Lane was abandoned after grounding off the coast of Brazil. �WARSHIPS NAMED FULTON Robert Fulton, American inventor, was born in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1765. At the age of 13 he