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

. A. Hambright of the 79th Regiment, Captain Pratt of the Carlisle Indian School, and members of the School Board. Interment was in the Lancaster Cemetery. Four children survived him: Herbert M., who was employed by the Philadelphia Record; Percy, of the Philadelphia Press;Edith, and Mrs. W. P

others. James Hamilton laid out the town of Lancaster at the request of the proprietaries, but there is no record of a petition direct from the citizens for establishing a borough. Perhaps Hamilton's influence shows here. In and about Lancaster, as early as 1730, we find some licensed, at a tax of twenty

, February 28, 1776: At the printing and Post Office in King Street (near the market), "Common Sense" printed and offered for sale by Francis Bailey. Apparently there is no record extant giving the names of Lancaster post- masters prior to 1790. From the two references to printers, Samuel Holland and Francis

cut away part of the Lancaster cemetery, which was first used about 1850, in the straightening process. The following are petitions of proponents and opponents of the change in the line of this street: "To the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County: A petition of the city of

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

religious awakening, and Klein spent a night of restless remorse. The next day he followed Zinzendorf to Lancaster to hear him preach in the courthouse there. Klein was now deeply impressed and moved. Zinzendorf's powerful influence upon Klein determined the destiny of this part of Warwick Township. When in

Daniel Keller - Lancaster County Boat Builder &at Rudder BY M. LUTHER HEISEY The name and fame of Robert Fulton, the Lancaster County boy who successfully applied steam to navigation, is known throughout the length and breadth of the nation. Before the launching of the Clermont in the Hudson in

M. LUTHER HEISEY EARLY SURVEYS IN LANCASTER COUNTY Recently-purchased copies of Taylor's surveys provide a mine of data for the research worker in the Society's library. The extent of lands is listed in this article. In Manuscript Book No. 76213, Chester County Historical Society, made by Isaac

flying beetle. Both were men of highest scholastic attainments, both were devout and devoted pastors of Lutheran parishes. The Rev. Henry Ernst Muhlenberg, of Lancaster, was a botanist; the Rev. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, an entomologist. There were times in those early days when Muhlenberg walked