dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted

Society, viz., the relative social, political and commercial importance of Lancaster and Lancaster county in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of our country's history. When there was no "Harrisburg, Altoona, Pittsburg and the West," our good city and our excellent county were "there!" Hence it is