this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Sener, Samuel Miller, 1855-1911. Title: Anderson's ferry / by S. M. Sener, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Marietta (Pa.)--History. Anderson's Ferry (Lancaster County

much of the printing for the Ephrata community besore it procured its own press, and for the other religious sects in the State. Lancaster county was the home of these people. He wished to retain �their patronage, and, not caring to wait until it came to him at Philadel- phia, he resolved to go to It

, 1730, a petition was presented by "the magis- trates, grand jury and other inhabit- ants of Lancaster county,setting forth that not having the conveniences of any navigable water for bringing the produce of their labors to Philadel- phia, they were obliged, at a great ex- pense, to transport them by