Lancaster County's Present Court House: A History of Its Construction 1852-1855 Fay Follet Kramer ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author is indebted to many people who aided in various ways in making this paper a reality. It is hoped that, in a small way, this paper will serve as a means of saying thank-you to

a great deal about the eco- nomic and social differences long noted in other historical accounts between this Negro occupational group and the mass of common black laborers. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a particularly representa- tive and appropriate place for a study of this nature. Most

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

crime and vice stretch. District Attorney Wilson Bucher's opposition to Bingo is directed at preventing a small and innocent-looking crack from appearing in our moral armor, a crack which would admit the van- guard of crime and immorality. The Editor �A History of the Lancaster Law and Order Society

CONESTOGA GIANT 1918 �A History of the Conestoga Motor Truck Company by Donald J. Summar The Conestoga Motor Truck Company was organized in Lancas- ter, Pennsylvania, in the Spring of 1917, to take advantage of the war-time need for trucks. The organizers of the company were: Flet- cher Ployd of New York

JAMES D. McMAHON HISTORY OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT IN LANCASTER How a Civil War monument event- ually came to the crossroads of Lan- caster where it has resisted successfully the efforts of anti-traditionists is told by a police officer with an interest in the monument and history. In

The House of Krupa: A History of the Motion Picture Industry in Lancaster, Pa. Catharine Krupa As told to her daughter, Beatrice Braden Since I was the eldest of the Krupa children and the one most closely associated with my parents, George and Elsie Krupa, in the motion picture industry, I feel

its product and armed with new methods for making use of low grade ores, is showing some interest in the long-deserted iron lands of Lancaster and surrounding counties, Gettysburg College JACK LOChER Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NOTES 1. F. A, Godcharles, Pennsylvania: Political, Governmental, Military

history have been known to state that the first court house in the center of Penn Square was constructed of logs. Their source was H. M. J. Klein's Lancaster County Pennsylvania: A History, published in 1924 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Examination of page 328 of volume I reveals the

: The Temperance Collection includes convention programs of the Lancaster County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.); a history of the group from 1884-1959; Pennsylvania State W.C.T.U. function programs; and a minute book from the Bart Chapter. Included are handwritten notes on some of the