local photography or photographers in any histories of Lancaster County or in the writings of Robert B. Risk. �1845. One of them is a view of the south side of West King Street, from the present residence of Prof. Wm. B. Hall, to Centre Square. Some of the old buildings are to-day very much as they were

Baron " Stiegel and the Muhlenbergs By M. LUTHER HEISEY In February, 1762, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg visited Heidelberg, Tulpe- hocken, Lebanon (in dreadfully cold weather), Ephrata and Canestoge; all points within the early bounds of Lancaster County. He was engaged in visiting and consoling the

Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 10, p. 203. 4 Rupp's History of Lancaster and Y ork Counties, 1845, pp. 412, 413, 419. �11, �eminent property, and that officer was Captain Paul Zantzinger. A company of the Flying Camp was commanded by him in the Fall of 1777. He was a soldier in Captain John

shillings, "to sell rum by the small." Among them were Christopher Franciscus, John Miller, Samuel Bethel and Casper Loughman. 1 From the ·Charter of the Borough of Lancaster, as printed in Mombert's History of Lancaster County. �46 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY We feel that at times, less scrupulous

. 398. 2 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 36, p. 226. 3 Tradition tells us that this youthful post rider, Christian Wolf, while in Philadelphia in 1777, awaiting the mail for the journey to Lancaster, learned of the adoption by Congress of an American flag. He hastened on the return

south, the Long Swamp to the north, and the Roaring Brook rushing along what is now called Water Street! New Lancaster was on a "detour." The Great Conestoga Road, or Long Lane, passed some miles to the south of it; Old Peter Bezallion's Road and the Paxton Pike passed it many miles to the north. Even

The Indian Treaty 0/ 1744 By M. LUTHER HEISEY Turn back the pages of history two hundred years, and we find here in this two-year old borough of eleven hundred souls a gathering fraught with importance and anxiety. To this inland town, rapidly growing in influence, gathered a notable group of

"Proprietors of —Mishler's—Herb Bitters—Lancaster, Pa." To this 6c black perforated stamp the United States Stamp Catalogue as- signs the number RS 100 (former No. 5375). The first printing on thin old paper was delivered sometime in January, 1868. Measuring 100 by 24 mm., the stamps were printed in sheets of

. James Buchanan: Dear Sir: The Democrat Club of the Lancaster Locomotive Works, sen- sible of your liberality and sympathy with its efforts in the gift of the very fine old hickory pole from Wheatland, desires to express its gratitude and thanks for same. Hoping ever to merit the good opinions of our