THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

. Merrill, James, 1790-1841. Merrill, Samuel. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 396-401 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

, formerly a Friend," If I were not restricted by the limi- tations of the present occasion to re- late this most interesting diary to Lancaster county, especially, I could scarcely withstand the temptation to make some extracts of general inter- est. Remembering how recently it is that our great local

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

County Relations. Since the foregoing was written and read, I have had additional evi- dence of the continuing interest of the Ramsays of South Carolina in their Lancaster county relatives. Follow- ing is a copy of a letter written al- most fifty years ago—and yet nearly a-half-century after the one

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

diversions of the towns- people in 1780. Christopher Marshall (who lived on East Orange street, where Miss Hurford now resides), whose "diary" is the most piquant me- morial of men and things in Lancaster of that day,records on page 326 that on January 20, 1780, there was "a splendid Assembly" at the Court