is a popular tradition that some railroad company was paid a large bonus to bring the Pennsylvania tracks into the city, and that some obligation was thereby imposed upon the present company in control to run its trains through and stop them in Lancaster, and to maintain a passen- ger station in the

comprised in Lan- caster county, "Heidelberg" was one of the notable centres of the region. To this name its founder, Alexander Shaeffer, persistently adhered, but popular usage and regard for him overcame even his own modesty, and "Shaefferstown" it will remain. The first white footprints that pressed this

the preceding year, and its name given by John Wright, after the county in England, from which (in 1714) he came. Until August, 1730, the courts were held at Postlethwait's tavern, where, on August 5, 1729, the seven- *Rupp says it was on what is now East King street, where Slaymaker's tavern

County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1902-3 Description: [143]-153 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 7, no. 7 & 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.7

appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

more joyous pastoral note that she was amid the green pastures and by the still waters of Donegal; and one poem of this pe- riod proves by its title that she was detained on the further—I dare no longer say the York county—shore of the Susquehanna, February, 1807, by the breaking up of the rce. �It may

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner