back and forth between the Eden paper mill and the Eastern side of Penn (or Centre) Square showing first block of Last King Street, about 1878. Notice wagon behind Monument, and Indian atop Heiss Tobacco Shop. (John Ward Willson Loose Archives) freight depots. The old style ice wagon has melted away

offered by him, "a daguerreotype apparatus, and materials of the best kind, for sale." 5 If he used 4 Ellis and Evans' History o f Lancaster County, p. 593. 5 Advertisement appearing in the Columbia Spy from September 18 to �the outfit, he follows Fahnestock and Damant as the next oldest photographer in

gathering in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, June 29, 1762, at 7 o'clock, Squire Kuhn and Mr. Stiegel, of Lancaster County, arranged an artistic and pleasant program of church music. 2 Stiegel was an accomplished musician, having had a pipe organ in his mansion at Manheim, and was cap- able of leading his

PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLVI 1942 Nos. 2 and 3 By M. LUTHER HEISEY The leading residents of Lancaster, when it was incorporated into a borough, were those who were nominated and appointed in the charter as burgesses and assistants, and a few others. This charter

, dur- ing the trying times when the British overran Chester County and threatened Philadelphia .2 There was no satisfactory post route to Harrisburg, for in March, 1777, Judge Jasper Yeates wrote to Mr. Burd, of Philadelphia, seeking his aid for 1 History of Cumberland County, I. Daniel Rupp, 1846, p

December, 1847, and were buried on the same day. I History of Lancaster County, by Ellis and Evans, 1883, page 374. 2 An Authentic History of Lancaster County, by J. I. Mombert, D.D., 1869, page 426. �Others living in this block were Herman Hirsh, Philip A. Metzger, Susan Carpenter Frazer, Elizabeth B