land car- riage, which became heavier through the want of suitable roads for car- riages to pass. That there are no public roads leading to Philadelphia yet laid out through their county, and those in Chester county through which they now pass, are in many places incommodious. And therefore praying

, equal to two or three of the present five cent kind. WOODSHEDS AND SPRING HOUSES Woodsheds long ago were the go-between buildings at rural �farm houses and barns. Those sheds sheltered useful things needed daily by male and female family members. Chunks of wood were cut through, by aid of special framed

stated that "written history affords an incomplete history of the past." Without it, however, archaeology would have to depend more upon actual possession of instruments as excavated and recovered from mounds and graves. This plan of procedure has been going on in Lancaster county and elsewhere in

Providence, that lasting prosperity may come to our beloved country. It will be noted that the President, in his address to the people of Lancaster, stated that many years ago his father was secretary to James Buchanan while he was minister to England. Some of the older inhabitants of this community were of

inn, rushed to the workhouse nearby, and massacred all the Indians they found confined there- in. Another ancient hostelry, with quite an interesting history, that stood close by was the Fountain Inn, which was opened in 1758 by Christopher Reigart, who was its landlord through the try- ing times of

matters a bit thin, for only a tiny sliver of Lebanon County was taken from our county in 1813 when it was erected out of Dauphin County. From 1729 until 1749 Lancaster County occupied the lands as far west as the present Ohio border, and as far to the northwest as the western branches of the Susquehanna

strongly: . . . As members of the Grand Jury, after a week's service, we speak from personal experience. On entering the court room to present bills acted upon, it can only be done in single file, and after wedging our way through an opening formed in the crowd, little wider than the diameter of the staff

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preachers In 1830 the following were the clergymen or pastors of the several churches of Lancaster, as correctly as my memory serves me now: Rev. Bernard Keenan, St. Mary's Catholic Church; for more than fifty years he was pastor of St. Mary's, and no minister was more popular inside of his

there were twenty-two miles along the trail, through the Gap, to the easternmost extremity of their 6,400 acre tract. (Now Jackson Street in the borough of Strasburg.) This original trader's trail, the Conestoga road, also called the Long Lane, runs through the 6,400-acre tract past the still famous Big

neighborhood boys were fortunate in having play facilities close to home. One was the old Odd Fellows Hall, now and for many years past, the site of the present Haldy Monument Works. This was in the middle of the •block on S. Queen St. Previous to the time of which I write it had been condemned as unsafe and