. Incidentally, whenever I come to Columbia I remember much else. I remember Columbia as a center, for a long century, of another picturesque interest,—rafting; I remember the town as the center of a great canal sys- tem; then as an early railroad center; I remember it happily for its past mem- ories of shad

was made from a species of grass never before used for that purpose. Soon women, and a great number of children at the public school in the city, mastered the art of plaiting the straw. The grass from which the hat was made grew abundantly, at that time, in Lancaster county. Joel Lightner, Jr., was

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

County, free Black communities tended to emerge where slaves had been held. Further references to Bethel in Payne"s history are sparse. For 1841 it was reported that the Columbia circuit had 1 school, 3 teachers, and 30 scholars. The Lancaster circuit, by comparison, had 1 school, 3 teachers, and 20

literacy. While outlining their plans for a school, the Columbia delegation also revealed that a sabbath school for Blacks had been opened in Columbia in January 1819.13 This school had 85 registrants consisting of almost equal numbers of adults and children. Of these, about 40 attended regularly with what

. Bohring. April 21, 1866. Agreed to that the Hospital be 125 feet in length instead of 140 feet 6 inches, as was designated in the original resolution. May 5, 1866. Moved by Mr. Gast, that the County Commissioners be notified that the Directors of the Poor expect to draw on them for $5,000.00 in the month

, June 23rd, 1931, by State and county officials at the unveiling of a bronze memorial tablet to perpetuate his memory, by The Pennsylvania Society of The Colonial Dames of America. The exercises, held in the armory at Columbia, were attended by approx- imately one hundred and fifty persons

Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

. Collections in Aid of the Poor By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Lancaster Journal of Friday, January 8th, 1830, stated that the committee appointed in the south-east ward of Lancaster during the winter for the purchase and distribution of wood among the poor, had left an account at the office of that paper of

Lancaster Journal of Friday, January 15th, 1830, contained a statement of donations received by Mayor Michael Carpen- ter from October 7th, 1847, to January 13th, 1849, for dis- tribution among the poor of the city of Lancaster. The statement is as follows : RECEIPTS. Received from Hon. James Buchanan, in