12.30 Christiana 2.32 The speed of the train can be judged by the fact that it took 2 hours and 36 minutes to run the approximate forty miles across Lancaster County, in- cluding a 5-minute stop at the old depot at North Queen and Chestnut Streets. The funeral train was preceded by 10 minutes by a

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CONNECTIONS WITH LANCASTER AND ITS CITIZENS AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELD ON FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9TH, 1934, TO COMMEMORATE THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH BY C. H. MARTIN O N the recognition of the 125th

conceived and well planned inter-county event. And as the official representative of The Lancaster County Historical Society, I cannot too strongly commend the Lancaster and York County Branches of the Colonial Dames of America for erecting this fine bronze tablet to commemorate the first important ferry

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected

that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

Stoner, Christian Forrer. (the Christian Faver article re-written), John Davis, Samuel Quest, Henry William Hall and Jacob Jameson. The paper with these corrections and additions was re-read to the Society at the October meeting, 1939, by Dr. Herbert H. Beck. Of all the publications of the Lancaster

map showed them to be. The cellar was that of a house being built for Jacob Hertzler. It is a one and a half story frame building with a concrete block foundation. It stands on South Locust street, 300 yards from Main street. This house is the actual marker of the graveyard, 325 yards southwest of the

Henry E. Leman, Riflemaker By HERBERT H. BECK, Sc.D. RIFLE MADE BY HENRY E. LEMAN, AND PRESENTED BY HIM IN 1872 TO THE BECK FAMILY SCHOOL. Henry E. Leman is worthy of special record by the Lancaster County Historical Society. William U. Hensel, Frank R. Diffen- derffer and David F. Magee have

, September 19th, 1827. 29 Lancaster Journal, Friday, October 26th and November 2nd, 1827. �Third Day. The sweepstakes were taken by "Flying Childers," in two heats, beating "Mulatto Mary" and "Black Beard." In the summer of 1829, a number of gentlemen residents of the city and county of Lancaster, formed an