most famous hero of the Civil War, General John F. Reynolds, was born in this same year of 1820. John Passmore was then filling the new office of Mayor, the city having been incorporated only two years be- fore. The Court House was in Cen- tre Square; the county jail and work- house within what are now

"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and

NCASTER PA. H ROSE WATER -- Pure. ARTICLES EAS1 lI 11:1 15 .TESTOMONIAL ti HA ica THE HOLIDAYS t Su t LADIES DO YOU WANT TO BUY E.J.ERIS A �Christmas in Lancaster in 1874 Notwithstanding the cry of "hard times," the celebration of Christmas in this community [Lancaster] was more general and ex- tensive

and a garden which extended back of Miss Wolff's house and back of our yard to what is now Lancaster Avenue. Mr. Killeffer made hand-made cigars and he raised de- licious corn. He had a daughter named Alice. Across the street from us, where the Lestz wholesale store now stands, was the James Street

upon any part thereof; and also provided that the said tract of land should be holden of them, their heirs and successors, Pro- prietaries of Pennsylvania, as of their Manor or reputed Manor of Conestoga, in the county of Lancaster, in free and common soccage, by fealty only, in lieu of all other

these were widely known, and most of Iii\� � them were connected with important events in her early history. The names and erection of a few of them may be Iii\� ,trJ, given : Hickory Tree, on East King street, 1722; Cross Keys, 1730; Lancaster County House, 1754; Shober's Iii\� I Hotel, 1757; Fountain

Preservation Trust of Lancaster County 15 June 1995 • Historic Preservation Trust ofLancaster County 123 North Prince Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603 Phone: (717) 291-5861 This project was financed by a grant from the FEDERAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM and THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

, 1802. He d led in �Philadelphia on August 11, 1863. The latter was one of the most distin- guished soldiers from Lancaster coun- ty during the War of the Rebellion. He served actively for forty years in the army, during which time he was in the Florida War, February, 1836, to May, 1838, and in the

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Abner McMichael Eyde, with Miriam Eyde Bixler In 1891, when I was ten years old, my Dad, Eli Eyde, was transferred from his Columbia job as telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad to the tower at Lancaster on North Prince Street between Walnut and Lemon

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Part 2* by Abner McMichael Eyde with Miriam Eyde Bixler A boy really worked for his spending money in my day, none of this allowance business. You got a few pennies for Sunday School and church and mostly that was it, unless your older brothers and sisters