the bill for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. 4 The Pennsylvania delegation in the House of Representatives split 2-18 on the vote, according to the Intelligencer-Journal (15 March 1932). Lan� caster County Congressman J. Roland Kinzer and a Democratic congressman voted nay, while 16

history have been known to state that the first court house in the center of Penn Square was constructed of logs. Their source was H. M. J. Klein's Lancaster County Pennsylvania: A History, published in 1924 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Examination of page 328 of volume I reveals the

. From 1729 until 1749 the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, the present county of Indiana, the Allegheny River and the Ohio River were the northwestern boundaries of Lancaster Coun- ty. This was the fourth county of Pennsylvania, and from it have come all the counties west of an imaginary diagonal

many generations; indeed, Lancaster County in 1790 was one of the largest slave-holding coun- ties in Pennsylvania. Newspaper accounts during the last century indicate Lancaster's Negroes were fairly well-integrated with the white residents of the southeast quadrant of the city. Census records reveal