the map founded upon it, lies �before me as I write. It is printed in red on a piece of line woolen cloth, 21 by 25 inches in size. In the left-hand corner, at the top, there is a portrait of Washington, and underneath it the words PRESIDENT Of the United States of AMERICA. In the right-hand corner

, which came along later. The first turnpike in the county and the first one in the United states was what has always been known as the "Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike." That road was built by a company that was charter- ed by the General Assembly of the State on April 9, 1792. It was not a state

' History of Lancaster County that he had probably become addicted to a roving life in consequence of having accompanied the well-known trader and soldier, Colonel George Cro- gan, who, the same authority states, was his uncle, while on the latter's trading excursions into the regions be- yond Ohio. On this

- chanted bow in the Arabian story that took its strength from the arm that �drew it. In a child's hand it was a toy to shoot at birds; in the hand of a war- rior it sent its shaft through shield and cuirass; but when drawn by the arm of a giant sent aloft a shaft that kindled with its swiftness and left a

, making a total for city and county of 275, a rec- ord which, I believe, exceeds that of any community in the United States, �having no larger population than ours, say, 160,000 souls. The more immediate purpose of this paper, however, is to bring into promi- nence the German press of the county, and its

, in fact, that offered suitable accommodations for performers and spectators. While, therefore, the first regular theatre in the United States was built at Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1752. that date must not be taken to mark the appearance of theatrical represen- tations in this country. No doubt

were that united in this scheme to es- tablish a new county. With a single exception, they are unknown to the average reader of our history. It is only when the story of Pennsylvania as it was recorded 200 years ago is d r a g g e d i n t o l i g h t t h a t w e h e a r o f the m. E ach one of them pl

for ours, their descendants, pass down to us in tangible form the story of their lives and times. The student of our early local history is confronted all along the way with un- settled questions, matters merely hinted at and doubts without number, the solving of which will always re- main to vex and

, December 4th and 5th, when the declaration of the vote was made in triplicate, and the copies disposed of according to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and all the other neces- sary accompanying documents pre- pared, signed and delivered. That the copy present to-day is the one