ALONG THE STREETS OF OLD LANCASTER Vast changes in customs, manner and mode of living among the people residing along these streets of this colonial inland city of Lancaster have occurred over the passing years. There was music in the air — not from phonograph or radio — but from the street organ

Anthracite Iron Blast Furnaces in Lancaster County 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Description Unlike the charcoal furnace, the anthracite furnace was a product of the age of steam power; indeed, it was a symbol of a whole new era in which the trinity of coal, iron, and steam

The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: Rolling Mills 1850-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Desciption Although rolling mills had been used early in the nineteenth century for reducing the thickness of bar iron produced at the forges, rolling mills as a separate industry were

The Art o/ Photography in Lancaster By M. LATHER HEISEY W HEN Robert Burns said: "0 wod some Pow'r the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us !" he did not realize that one answer to his observation would be given to the world by the invention of photography. Until that time men saw their

. Lancaster, Pa. York, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. First Continental Congress 5 September 1774 to 24 October 1774 (Under the English Crown) Second Continental Congress 10 May 1775 to 12 December 1776 20 December 1776 to 27 February 1777 4 March 1777 to 18 September 1777 27 September 1777 30 September 1777 to 27

PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLVI 1942 Nos. 2 and 3 By M. LUTHER HEISEY The leading residents of Lancaster, when it was incorporated into a borough, were those who were nominated and appointed in the charter as burgesses and assistants, and a few others. This charter

the post office in King's Street." This is the first known post office in Lancaster proven by documen- tary evidence. This is further substantiated by a bond in possession of the Lancaster County Historical Society, bearing date of August 11, 1753, with an imprint reading, "Printed by S. Holland at

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

gone the way of twelve-course dinners. Indeed, everything about Clio would appear anachro- nistic. Fortunately, as with many human efforts and institutions in Lancaster, appearances are deceiving. Clio is a remarkably youthful and peppery old lady at the age of one hundred. Probably she is healthier

Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly M. Luther Heisey Long before the Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly became famous the art of dancing is mentioned in the early archives of Lancaster County. When Witham Marche attended the Commissioers Treaty gathering in Lancaster he kept an interesting diary