walls of this dining room. The Lancaster was built in the days of "wooden ships and iron men," and served well her country for fifty-seven years. On February 10, 1948, the battleship Pennsylvania, of 33,000 tons, flagship of the U. S. fleet, dear to all hearts in this Commonwealth, was scuttled near

Susquehanna Islands in Lancaster County By M. Luther Heisey There is glamor, romance and even tragedy connected with the story of the many river islands along the Lancaster County shore. Time was when the Indians inhabited the larger islands, farming, hunt- ing, fishing, cooking, and even interring

here we have the germ of an idea, even as Fulton's, which was a forward step in transportation progress. With a seeming touch of pride, Daniel Keller usually gave his address as "of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," but this land- lubber, this builder of ships and arks, was quite a gadabout, traveling

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

, attended a reunion of choir members of St. James' Episcopal Church. Jan. 11. B. Snavely Garber received a Master Farmer medal awarded by the "Pennsylvania Farmer," in recogniton of achievement "in agriculture and citizen- ship." Jan. 13. Riding high as usual, Lancaster County farmers captured 39 cham

pleasant farewell, for his two youngest daughters, Nancy and Rachel, had come from Lancaster to bid him good-bye. �Working For Pennsylvania Ellicott was employed on many occasions by the Keystone State. In 1786, he surveyed the boundary of Pennsylvania and New York from the Delaware River to the ninetieth

individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth