Lancaster County Historical Society should preserve in its archives a record of this noteworthy event. It is the purpose, therefore, of this paper to attempt to perpetuate the names of soine of those present, to mention the members of the General Committee, to repeat, in whole or in part, the addresses and

Pennsylvania in the 1830's that made pos- sible a broader leaf and a higher quality tobacco. It has been reported that "by 1860 Lancaster County was producing 63% of the total amount of cigar �leaf produced within the state and in the following century the county at- tained a total of over 90% of the state

. Root, Vice- President and Treasurer, of Allentown, Pa.; Mr. L. C. Pursell, Second Vice-President, of Allentown, Pa.; and to Mr. James Huebner, Vice-President, Lancaster Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Most of the material in this study has been secured from data and records owned by the

Paxtang and Conestoga roads cross, Samuel Scott built a grist and saw mill. 2 "Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — A History;" H. M. J. Klein, p. 482. �One of the mills constructed about 1730, namely, that erected by Samuel Blunston and James Wright on Shawnee run, was destined to play a role in subsequent

, George Louis Mayer and 1 See Minute Book of the Conestoga Navigation Company, in the Library of The Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 2 Ibid. Page 1. �Hugh Maxwell, of the city of Lancaster, and John Lintner and George Haver- stick, of the county of Lancaster, "or any two of

REAR ADMIRIAL WILLIAM REYNOLDS A DISTINGUISHED LANCASTRIAN. 1815-1879 By PROFESSOR HORACE R. BARNES William Reynolds, son of John and Lydia Moore Reynolds, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 10th, 1815. The characteristics which marked the lives of both Admiral William Reynolds and his

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

The Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Joint Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States and Franklin College By DR. HORACE R. BARNES The four days, October 14 to 17 inclusive, will go down in the history of Lancaster County as one of the outstanding periods in the long and