con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

. Charles I. Landis. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Roads--Pennsylvania--History. Roads--Pennsylvania--Design and construction. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 99-107 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 23, no. 6

- dent of Lancaster Borough, and this is my excuse for now presenting his almost forgotten name to my hearers. For a long time, he was intimately connected with the Indian trade and Indian traders. These activities, in the early days of the province, radiated from the old borough, and goods were carried

CITY HALL AND ITS HISTORY. I have concluded that the legend of the building now known to us as City Hall and of the lot which it stands upon may have some special interest, at least to those who live in the city; and in view of misstatements which I have heard at times concerning them, I have

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

Jeremiah S. Black. The date of his admission to the Franklin county Bar cannot be ascertained, as the records were de- stroyed during the War of the Rebel- lion, when Chambersburg was burned by the Confederates under Generl Mc- Causland. He died at Chambersburg on August 2, 1848, and was buried in the

give to you the result of my inquiries concerning this subject. I know you will pardon all deficiencies. Dr. Julius F. Sachse, in his inter- esting article, entitled "Wayside Inns on the Lancaster Pike," published in volumes 21 and 22 of the proceedings of the Pennsylvania German Society, says that in

stock of the Philadelphia Turnpike / by Charles I. Landis. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Roads--Pennsylvania--History. Stocks--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 93-100 p. ; 23 cm

itself. A reference to that of two hundred years ago shows marked similarity with the events of the pres- ent day, except that then the French, and not the German, King was the �aggressor. Louis XIV ascended the throne of France in 1643, and in 1648 the "Thirty Years' War" was •terminated by the Peace of