How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

): Capitals (Cities) Lancaster (Pa.)--Capital and capitol. United States--Capital and capitol. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [111]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 4 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.1

Chester Valley; and two main lines of the Under­ ground Railroad ran through Lancaster County, close to where the two lines of the great steam railway which tra­ verses it from east to west are now located. A9quiescing in this decision Pennsylvania, in 1847, re- . pealed the provisions of the Act of 1826

. He would vote to authorize the President of the United States to contract for suitable orna- ments to complete the east front of the Capitol, instead of directing the Committee on Finance to inquire, etc." �Persico In Lancaster. It was then the debate attained the point of more immediate local inter

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