there some 71 years ago and its childhood memories are still etched in my mind. This three story brick building was built in 1848 by Joseph Dickinson and was one of the first in that area to be electrified. Richard Marshall became its first landlord, followed by "Hope" Herschberger. In the spring of

" were known, ironmasters formed in- dustrial dynasties through the marriages of their children.) Robert Cole- man"s daughter, Ann, became engaged to James Buchanan, then a promis- �14 JOURNAL Robert Coleman ing young attorney in Lancaster, later to become President of the United States. The marriage

the outbreak of the Revolution, the state decided to use these facilities as prisons for the captured British and Hessian soldiers. The Hessians were mer- cenary soldiers from Hesse, Germany, hired to fight for the British. The non-commissioned prisoners were confined in the barracks, which was

two dozen staterooms, no pas- sengers dared make the trip, and only a few crewmen were aboard." As the steam engine became improved, the sailing vessels gradually disappeared. Professor J. Olney, in his 1836 History of the United States, related that the amount of tonnage in the U.S. reckoning the

0 r) �Sons of Rest: 1899-1971 By Melvern R. Evans, Jr. The Sons of Rest probably was the most unique organization in Lancaster history. It all started in 1899 when a group of aspiring young football players, many of them from the Lancaster Boys' High School, banded together and com- peted against

. Bottom Row—Annie W. Evans 1861-1873, Erminia Evans 1865-1892 and David Evans 1868-1933. and later succeeded him. Clifton married Annie Weaver and they had a son, Melvern R. Evans Sr., who represented the third generation of architects in the Evans family. We shall now take each one in turn and learn more