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

profitable crop, and on the basis of the yield in Lancaster County, asserted that an acre of ground would yield 33 to 36 pounds of Saffron. For a picture of the Heinitsh store in the 90's we have this description by Edward Page: I went to the store in 1891. At that time, the store had bulk windows with

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and

Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

grandmother told her, tells us in her "Journal" that the farmers on the Susquehanna about 1730 did not de- pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp and hops to make a living. (See Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,) To tell the number of people who lived here when the county was or- ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter. In