individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth

one of the commissioners to run the line between that state and Pennsylvania (the exten- sion of the Mason and Dixon Line). With him were Rittenhouse, Peters and Nevill, and as an associate to these commissioners a youth of but nineteen years, Benjamin S. Barton, son of the Rev. Thomas Barton, both of

here we have the germ of an idea, even as Fulton's, which was a forward step in transportation progress. With a seeming touch of pride, Daniel Keller usually gave his address as "of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," but this land- lubber, this builder of ships and arks, was quite a gadabout, traveling

plentiful then as now, and the style was to place them on a string and hang them about the neck as a "lei." Mount Gretna boasted of a narrow-gauge railroad that chugged up to Gov- ernor Dick tower, from which you could view the landscape o'er. Without effort one could easily become lost in the woods at

GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1956 Compiled and Edited by M. Luther Heisey Jan. 1. With the Byrd Expedition to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic are two Lancaster sailors—Russell H. Rineer and Roland M. Campbell. Jan. 4. A loan of $7,670,000 was secured by the City of Lancaster Authority to be used

GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1957 Compiled and Edited by M, Luther Heisey January 3. After ten years of research, development and testing, Hamilton Watch Com- pany placed on the market the world's first electric wrist watch, 15. A wave of arctic air hit Lancaster, sending the thermometers down

"Conestoga" assigned to one of its Ericsson-type iron-clad monitors, then being built at Chester, Pennsylvania by Reaney Son and Archbold in 1861. This 496-ton vessel was renamed "Sangamon" before launching. 4 Pictorial War Record, Jan. 28, 1882, p. 173. �USS Conestoga, sea-going tug, was built in 1903 for