. Documents "It's a Big Job." Welfare Federation of Lancaster County. Lancaster, PA, 1 October 1932. Walter F. Hallowell. Veteran's Compensation Application. #38339-149. Adjutant General's Office. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 13 March 1934. (Pennsylvania State Archives. PHMC. Harrisburg PA). Walter Franklin

southeastern Pennsylvania, the inexorable flood of German migration soon dwarfed the tiny Huguenot settlements within the present boundaries of Lancaster County.' By 1718, the earliest tax assessment list for Conestoga in the present Lancaster County listed 43 English surnames, 78 Swiss-German surnames, and

and the railroad would have to invest considerable amounts of capital for relief in strategic areas. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was one such critical region. PRR trains headed east from Harrisburg had two routes through the western part of Lancaster County. The first, the Columbia Branch

"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and

persons from throughout the eastern third of Lancaster County, and portions of Berks and Chester counties. The seventh office was opened in Leola in 1990. The author wishes to thank Raymond Baxter, Linda Shirk, William Sprecher, Craig Styer, Helen Weaver, and Ruth Weidner for providing information. Of

. Vondersmith, associate judge of the Lancaster County Courts, delivered an essay on "Civilization and Its Effects Upon Mankind." About ten years later Judge Vondersmith fled from Lancaster civilization ahead of the United States marshal who held a warrant for his arrest. The civilized judge, it was alleged

Paxton Boys: Murderers of the Conestoga Indians." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 87, no. 3 (1983), p. 324; J.I. Mombert, An Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania. (Lancaster, PA: J.E. Barr and Company, 1869), pp. 188-189; Joseph P. Kelley

The Colonial Theatre of Lancaster: 1912-1965 By James Henke, Ph.D. Howard E. Doan had come to Lancaster in 1906, to manage the Electric Theatre, an early motion picture house on West King Street. After establishing a strong following of audience members, H.E. Doan built another motion picture house

Scottish Ulstermen who founded Donegal Presbyterian Church in the 1720s were the second most numerous of the early colonists in Lancaster County. LCHS Photo by Martin J. Heisey. to move in 1965. This is a typical and final chapter in the white man's dealings with the Pennsylvania Indians. With respect to

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Lancaster, Pa.: I.E. Barr & Co., 1869), Appendix Division X, See First, Second, Third Frames of Government by William Penn, and The Charter of Privileges, 1-50. 7. Laws of Pennsylvania (P.L. 169, 1722) republished by Carey & Bioren, 1803, vol. 1. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. H