TWO NOTABLE MINING INDUSTRIES OF LANCASTER COUNTY By H. Luther Willig While the bounteous harvests of her fair fields have made Lancaster County as the "Garden Spot of Pennsylvania" her past mining industries have added additional luster to her name through the discovery of the rare minerals

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

STEPHEN GIRARD'S CONNECTIONS WITH LANCASTER COUNTY By W. Frank Gorrecht Living in Lancaster county, mostly in Washington Borough, Manor and Conestoga townships, in Columbia, Lancaster and scattered far and wide elsewhere are a large number of people in the aggregate, who cherish the hope that they

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Paper money--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Coinage--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1926 Description: 19-27 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 30, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9

/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Title: Petition of sundry citizens of Cocalico presented to the County Commissioners in 1782, reporting their distress from tempest and flood. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Floods--Pennsylvania--Cocalico Township. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--1775-1865

- monwealth against the continuance of the speaking of German which threat- ened to make of the settlement a German colony? In 1741 the German and Swiss Mennonites of Lancaster County were represented to the provincial government of Pennsylvania as being " determined not to obey the lawful authority of

. Petition of Ross and Caroll that Pennsylvania oppresses them. 1 A., 333 More border trouble. - 1 A., 335. Indian deed for land-it may effect Lancaster County. - 1 A., 344. The boundary troubles with Maryland. - 1 A., 347. The above found also -- 1 A. 394. When Lancaster County was organized; no one lived