this particular portion of East Orange street, near Lime, has wrapped up in its history much that makes it one of the most interesting quarter blocks in our entire residential part of Lancaster. The Barton Gardens on the corner and the home of the Episcopalian Minister who was forced out of his

Col. Archibald Steele By D. F. MAGEE, Esq., LANCASTER. PA. In Archibald Steele, the eldest son of Capt. William Steele, Drumore Town- ship furnished to the Continental Army one of the bravest and one of the most loyal defenders of his country's liberties that went forth from Pennsylvania. A giant

- ing completion the finest and largest hydro-electric plant in this country if not in the world, and at the same time a magnificent concrete bridge and boulevard beautifully finished and lighted crossing the scenic Susquehanna at a height of one hundred and eight feet above the bed of the swift flowing

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

Pennsylvania, is called Woods Bridge, after the leading Quaker family of that section, who have long been promi- nent in Lancaster County history. It is on a road but little travelled and in poor repair, leading from Wrightsville over into Cecil County, Md. The bridge was built in 1890, and is one hundrcd and

. This, of course, was after the building of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, prior to which time Baltimore was the market for all rafts, as I shall hereinafter show. At this point I will return to the earlier history of the navigation of the Susquehanna River, with the dream, the plans, the

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

, probably the most famous sur- geon that United States has produced, whose fame was Nation wide ; of John Musser of Lancaster, Prof. at University of Penn- sylvania; of the two Deavers of the Buck, Harry and John B., sons of the elder Dr. James Deaver of the Buck, all of this County, are familiar names

landlord and hotel held a much more prominent position than they have of later years. We find from reading the history of our County that the landlord of our principal tavern were usually among the most prominent citizens in the community; in fact we often find they were the leaders in business, in social