OLD LANCASTER, This paper makes no pretension to being exhaustive. Most of it is only a "twice-told tale," familiar to many of you. There is too much of interest in the early history of this fair city of ours—too much of importance—for this to be more than a brief sketch of a few prominent items

INTRODUCTORY. As was to be expected from a popu- lation so conglomerate as that which comprised the early and later set- tlers of Lancaster county and city, German, Scotch-Irish and Quakers, Protestants, Catholics, with a sprink- ling of Jews, and, perhaps, still other nationalities, it was a

/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eby, Simon P. Title: Homes of our fathers : fairest land of Lancaster / by S. P. Eby, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa.)--Poetry. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1907

The Militia Muster, or Battalion Day. Sixty or seventy-five years ago neither legal nor other holidays were as common in Lancaster county as they are to-day. It is true that New Year's Day received some attention at the hands of those who owned firearms; Good Friday was observed by a ma- jority of

672, 60 shillings on each. Many of the Hamilton deeds for lots will be found by consulting Book A, Volume 6 and Book I, in the Re- corder's Office, at Lancaster. Pa. In 1729, when Lancaster county was laid out, John Wright, Caleb Pearce, Thomas Edwards and James Mitchell were the Commissioners to lay

around the system, drawn by The Marley Company, Inc. Drawing number 54-4226. Dated 23 February 1954. Folder 29 Blueprints titled, “Alterations to Heating System in store building for Watt and Shand, Lancaster, PA”. The plan was drawn for the renovations on the first floor of the building. Plans drawn by

"Gleanings From an Old News- paper:" On June 17, 1794, was issued the first number of the Lancaster Journal. Its motto was: "Not too rash. Yet not fearful. Open to all parties; yet influenced by none." The paper was issued weekly. The file for 1794 is missing, but after that the volumes are complete. Only in

Lafayette's Visit to Lancaster in 182b. The following account of Lafayette's visit to Lancaster, on July 27, 1825, is taken from the history of his visit to the United States in 1824 and 1825, written by his secretary, A. Levasseur, and copied for this Society by S. H. Ranck, of the Enoch Pratt

, Maryland, Virginia, as far South as Richmond. Baltimore, Philadelphia and some other places he visited a number of times. His journey. when he visited Lancaster was from Washington, D. C., to Frederick, Md., York , Pa., to Columbia, to Lancaster, to Merion, Radnor and other places. F. R. D. "August 24th