AN EARLY NEWSPAPER The importance and value of news- papers in the study of local history can not well be overrated. They come next in importance to the original records of State and county. In more recent times they have lost somewhat of their value from the coloring given to public questions as

building in this county, and the country et large. A New Highway Called For. The foregoing brief account of the early road making has been prepared as introductory to an attempt made by the people of this city and county in 1770 to have a new King's highway built between Lancaster and Philadel- phia, by a

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Arthur Armstrong / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Armstrong, Arthur, 1798-1851. Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

Historical Society by H, Frank Eshleman, Esq. �liquor licenses, and the minutes of the County Commissioners, and the records of wills, estates and deeds. All of the assessment lists before 1750 are gone. I think the earliest list preserved of Lancaster town and borough is that of 1754. It is printed among

) Rupp's History of Lancaster County, p. 41. �First Steps Taken By Penn. But a project looking toward a settlement and the organization of a county here on the Susquehanna was inaugurated by Penn as early as the year 1690. What was done towards this end is as follows: In the year 1690 Penn issued pro

' History of Lancaster County that he had probably become addicted to a roving life in consequence of having accompanied the well-known trader and soldier, Colonel George Cro- gan, who, the same authority states, was his uncle, while on the latter's trading excursions into the regions be- yond Ohio. On this

%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank, 1869-1953. Title: Cresap's war : the Lancaster County border struggle / by H. Frank Eshleman, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Cresap, Thomas, 1702-1790. Cresap's War--1735-1737. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Boundaries. Lancaster County (Pa

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Date stones, with examples / by F. R. Diffenderfferk Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Date stones (Building)--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Folk art--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc