AN OLD ATLAS By William Frederic Worner Among the treasures preserved in the library and museum of the Lancas- ter County Historical Society, is an old volume entitled: The Life of George Washington Maps and Subscribers' Names 1807 It is a small volume, eleven inches long by nine inches wide; and

DID LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE PRESENT A RUG TO GEORGE WASHINGTON? By William Frederic Worner. At a meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society held in April, 1908, a booklet was received entitled: "An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon; the Home of Washington," issued by the Mount Vernon Ladies

GEORGE WASHINGTON IN LANCASTER. By William Frederic Worner. In the "Proceedings" of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. XXVI, No. 10, for December, 1922, is a description of George Washington's visit to Lancaster borough in 1791, at which time he witnessed the celebra- tion of the

THE INDIAN TOWN SITE AT WASHINGTON BORO Many years ago an Indian Town was located on the fertile slope of the eastern shore of the Susquehanna river now occupied by Washington Boro, where they lived and cultivated their gardens in Indian manner. Their habi- tation extended approximately from

Washington here (with the daily dead and dying all about him and the yellow spots of graves ever in- creasing) often breathed in prayerful devotion the same thoughts that Lincoln later uttered at Gettysburg. We can feel that Washington many times said- "We have brought forth on this continent a new nation

reward a little less than two months before. Tuesday, January 7th, 1800, was observed by the inhabitants of Lancaster borough as a day "of mourning, tribulation and respect for the memory of the illustrious Washington.' A solemn procession moved through the principal streets of the borough to Saint

The Washington Association of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER Among the treasures preserved in the collections of the Lan- caster Lounty Historical Society is a little pamphlet of 16 pages, nve incnes long by three wide, entitled : CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF