GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1956 Compiled and Edited by M. Luther Heisey Jan. 1. With the Byrd Expedition to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic are two Lancaster sailors—Russell H. Rineer and Roland M. Campbell. Jan. 4. A loan of $7,670,000 was secured by the City of Lancaster Authority to be used

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

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

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

Surveyor of the Capital of Our Nation By M. LUTHER HEISEY Surveyor of the Capital, Washington, D. C., February, 1791 to July, 1793, A resident of Lancaster, Pa., from October, 1801 to November, 1813. "To this place [Lancaster] I feel more attached than to any other."—A. E. Secretary of the Land

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

frigates Constellation and the Constitution, both con- structed as early as 1797. The Lancaster has now gone into the limbo of missing vessels, while the ancient frigates were put in "full commission" again on August 24, 1940. As new facts have been gathered, and as pictures of the old Lancaster and its