The Birth of Lancaster County The earliest human beings who have left us any evidence of their residence in what is now Lancaster county were those ancient Indians who carved the pictures upon the rocks of the Susquehanna River and on the rocks in and about adjacent streams. The United States

CRESAP'S WAR The Lancaster County Border Struggle. Cresap's War was simply a series of campaigns beginning in 1735, in a struggle which at that time was about fifty years old—the border struggle between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The difficulty began as early as 1684, and was the chief cause which

EARLY LANCASTER TAX- ABLES--1754 r A document, entitled "The Return of the Borough of Lancaster, 1754," has just come to my hands. It has never been in print, and its contents are not recorded in any book of record in the Court House or elsewhere. It consists of five sheets of pa per, not bound

southeastern portion of Lancaster county. August 12, 1725: "Account of a book published by Francis Rawle called 'Ways and Means,' being a discussion of the manner in which we can restore our dwindling trade. This step is very highly complimented by Gov. Keith in his address to the Assembly of August 10th, this

" and Bryn Mawr. (Bryn Mawr is on the Pennsylvania railroad, and one of the stations.) He says, also, at page 368, that what we are accustomed to call Montgomery avenue or Lancaster Road, extending from High street (now Market street) to Lancaster, was formerly known as the old Con- estoga Road, but was

that the events set forth in them ever occurred in modest little Lancaster town; and all of them, when set down on the real stage where the stormy events recorded in them happened, not more than 600 feet from where we stand, in the now busy, surging, centre of our active city, all of them, when thus

Lincoln's Visit to Lancaster in 1861; And The Passing of His Corpse in 1865. In this paper I will endeavor to carry out the request made by this Society of me a month ago. I am by your direction to narrate the events connected with Lincoln's eighteen- minute stop-over in Lancaster on the 22nd of

OUR FIRST CIVIL COURTS The first five terms of the Common Pleas Courts os Lancaster county were held at Conestogoe, at John Postlethwait's Tavern, now the Fehl property, on the Conestogoe and Phil- adelphia Great Road (now at this point called the "Long Lane"), near Rock Hill. This road was