A CENTURY OF PROGRESS ALONG LIME STREET, LANCASTER, PA. By M. LUTHER HEISEY The logical starting point of our sketch of Lime street, from its begin- nings, and of some of those who at one time had, or now have, their homes on this thoroughfare, is East King street. There, on the northwest corner

leadership of David Zeisberger in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and that part of Ontario along Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. For sixty-two of his eighty-eight years Zeis- berger labored under most extraordinary difficulties with the In- �dians, especially those west of the Allegheny Mountains

, and his enthusiasm *The year is not given in the original paper. Probably, it should be 1785. f In 1763 Richard McAllister founded McAllister's Town, later known as Hanover, York County, Pa. ‡Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, 1883, p. 187. §Ibid, p. 225. �for the enterprise spread

County Historical Society none has been in such general demand, from all over the country, as this. It was first read before the Historical Society on April 6, 1917. New paragraphs added to Mr. Magee's story are marked with this symbol-0, and were con- tributed by Dr. Herbert H. Beck, Mrs. Charles M

were permitted to ride. The black smoke, rising from the burning embers of the long bridge at Columbia, hung like a pall over the county, in- creasing the anxiety and perplexity of the people. And then in a few days followed the thunderous roar of distant cannonading, distinctly heard through- out the

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an

form of tea or coffee, and even these are rendered unpalatable by the properti,es of the water. We do not know whether any plan of supplying the city with pure water is practicable. If it be so, we would hold up the example of other cities, all situated, like Lan- �18 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL