ground Lime Street would resemble a race course with flying sleighs, jingling their strings of bells, and going like old Jehu. Often, on Saturday nights, an inebriated gentleman from the country would recklessly drive up North Queen Street to display the mettle of his mare, and just as regularly he would

, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and

110 to 119 Penna. Railroad Views 120 to 131 Conestoga River Views 132 Fulton Mill Explosion 133 Exploded Boiler The following stereoscopic views in possession of the Lancaster County Historical Society, were town, Pa., about 1880: View of Marietta from Chickies Rock View from Chickies Rock, looking

, and an upright citizen. The modern novelist who would defame or vilify such a character and would picture him a common philanderer, to make a book salable, deserves the condemnation of such or- ganizations as the Lancaster County Historical Society, and more, deserves a reproof, even a legal one, from

� labor here and became the first missionary priest to establish a mission m this sectio�. He later became Superior of the Conewago Mission in Adams County. �60 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ISAAC WHITELOCK #315, 317, 318, etc. a Quaker, was born on November 12, 1712, and evidently came to Lan­

. & Perry., running on the river road to Port Deposit and Perry- ville, Maryland; and the Lanc. & Fred., running through Columbia and York to Frederick, Maryland. Man, never content with the progress he is making, found the speed of the express train "turtle-like" in comparison with the latest invention

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS ALONG LIME STREET, LANCASTER, PA. By M. LUTHER HEISEY The logical starting point of our sketch of Lime street, from its begin- nings, and of some of those who at one time had, or now have, their homes on this thoroughfare, is East King street. There, on the northwest corner

Washington's soldiers were suffering in the camp at Valley Forge. Among those displeased with the merry-making were Christopher Marshall, the diarist, and two local clergymen. Chris- topher voiced his objections in no uncertain terms. �The observance of General George Washington's birthday was never ignored

leadership of David Zeisberger in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and that part of Ontario along Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. For sixty-two of his eighty-eight years Zeis- berger labored under most extraordinary difficulties with the In- �dians, especially those west of the Allegheny Mountains