: The Temperance Collection includes convention programs of the Lancaster County Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.); a history of the group from 1884-1959; Pennsylvania State W.C.T.U. function programs; and a minute book from the Bart Chapter. Included are handwritten notes on some of the

hadn't subscribed to the oath could �get a pass. No oath; no travel! For a merchant or any man of business that was an insupportable blow. Especially if one's business had previously been in the direction of Lancaster, Philadelphia, Chester, or Newport. During the summer of 1777 Lancaster County was in a

several days over primitive roads or trails to Lancaster Borough, the county seat. People living in the northern and western parts of Chester County, which before 1729 included all of the Conestoga and Pequea Valley settlements that became Lancaster County, were loath to travel all the way down to Chester