. He had a for- tunate combination of qualities: Religious zeal, business enterprise and energy, administrative judgment and leadership. We like to think of John Wright, who named the county, started its first great business enterprise, governed its people and took active measures against encroachments

Capitol (Washington, D.C.) Capitals (Cities) Washington (D.C.) United States--Capital and capitol. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900-1901. Description: [57]-67 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 3 and 4 Call Number: 974.9

the convention. The purpose was to con- sider making the Susquehanna river navigable from the mouth of the Jun- iata to Wright's Ferry. Committees were appointed to receive subscrip tions and use their best endeavors to advance the cause. The delegates present at the convention srom Lan- caster county

parts of the said County, especially, from the Borough of Lancaster, to Philadelphia, is by the constant use of it with heavy Loaded Carriages, and by its being laid in many places on very bad ground, now rendered al- most impassable, and is attended in many parts of it with such Danger and Difficulty

city is left to conjecture. How long he remained in the river town and when he came to Lancaster is unknown. The first contemporary notice we have of Mr. Armstrong dates back to December, 1849, which reads as fol- lows: "We were very much gratified with a recent visit we paid to the gal- lery of Mr

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

house is the oldest building in Strasburg to- day. The Pfoutz family later, in 1754, settled in the Pfoutz Valley, Perry County.8 The lives of Charles and Martha Pfoutz Cameron were a continuous struggle against poverty. The tailor trade which Charles established at Maytown was not sufficiently

." Hambletonian was foaled in 1849 and died in 1876. 11 Henry White, a former employee at the Speedwell Farms. A ravine immediately south of the race-track plateau, where the common carcasses were thrown, is known as the Luderloch (Carrion Valley). 12 Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lancaster County by