The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church by Hiram G. Troop, Sr. Mr. Madison E. McElwain's Faith and Works at Middle Octorara Since 1727 was published in 1956, and there is a copy in the LCHS col- lection. "The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyter- ian

. Kriebel, H.W. Seeing Lancaster County From A Trolley Window (Pamphlet) 1910. Lainhoff, Thomas A. Buildings of Lancaster County, 1815. (Book) 1981. Lancaster Chamber of Commerce Lancaster, Pa., The Red Rose City. (Booklet) 1935. Lancaster City Planning Comm. Certification of the Adams-Musser Towns Area for

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 247-250 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.16 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

AutoNumber Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Vol # Cemetery # Page # 67444 Erisman Catharina 1809 wife of Michael Erisman Abbeville Cemetery Lancaster Township 24 506 1 67442 Erisman Daniel Sr. 1793 August 11, 1858

equality, Lincoln not only saved the Union, but he incarnated the spirit which alone can preserve it. These are but a few of the tributes paid to him by, men of note. FOUR ATTEND THE ENCAMPMENT Only four of the few remaining Civil War veterans of Lancaster County were able to accept the invitation of their

- coln, of Manheim, in the county of Lancaster, yeoman, so desig- nated in a quit claim deed, dated 1769, resided in colonial Lan- caster county. This Thomas Lincoln was a brother of the President's great-grandfather, John Lincoln, and had been a rep- resentative from Berks county in the General Assembly

con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

founded, this leading transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway. Once more, let me heartily commend the Lancaster and York County Branches of the Colonial Dames of America for what they have done here to-day. 1 For an account of Cresap's War, the reader is referred to Vol. XIII,. pp. 237-254, of the