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

Lancaster was founded this year. 2 Henry Slay- 1 Because of the tree, the early Indians located here were known as the Hickory Tribe; the town became known as Hickory Town. Other names for it were Gibson's Pasture, Indian Town, Spring Town and Waving Hills. See Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 135. 2

. The issuance of this special stamp was suggested and urged by Congressman William Walton Griest, to honor Robert Fulton be- cause of his nativity in Lancaster County. Another stamp, which was printed by the Post Office Department at the suggestion of local men, was the two-cent "Valley Forge" issue

Downingtown and Oakland, on the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, near Valley Creek bridge, the locomotive "Gover- nor" stalled, and a freight train, drawn by the locomotive "James Buchanan," crashed into it. One fireman, a Mr. Houston, Gap, Pa., son of Jos. H. Hous- ton, was killed. (Oakland was a station

track of the Hanover and York Railroad was laid in 1873 by REHIll AND MCTAGUE, contractors, the latter of Columbia, Pa. This firm also worked on sections 12 and 13 of the Bennett's Branch extension of the Allegheny Valley Railroad. Peter S. MCTAGUE, with a son, Harry P. (d. January, 1910,) did con

CATHOLIC CHURCH Excluding the French, Spanish and Maryland settlements, St. Mary's Parish was the fourth Catholic congregation in chronological order in what now constitutes the United States. St. Joseph's Chapel, Philadelphia, the chapels in Conewago, in what is now Adams County, and Goshenhoppen, Berks