, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1899. Peace to the Brave! They do not need our praising, For in all hearts is treasured every name; Yet for the future we to-day are raising A tablet to their fame. And while the trees put on their fading splendors And trail their banners like to knights of old

that may be, there is no record that �FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF BAILEY'S ALMANAC, FOR 1779. (By courtesy of The North American newspaper.) �the term had even been applied to Washington before, in print, and to Francis Bailey, a Lancaster printer, and a Lancaster county man, must be awarded the credit

to frugality and industry." In accordance with this recommendation, the King dis- approved of the proposed law, and theatrical representations have pre- vailed in Pennsylvania ever since. When theatrical performances, or what purported to be such,were first �given in Lancaster I have not been able to

. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Murdoch, James E. Theater--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: [114]-119 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 4 Call Number

The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster County and City. It is to be regretted that our fathers and grandfathers were so indifferent to the important events of their time, to the many stirring scenes and occur- rences of that early period, as not to have put them on record for the in

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: Electoral vote of Pennsylvania in 1804 / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Elections--Pennsylvania. Presidents--Election. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

. �����������@�@@@��@���������@���������������������������@�@������� I England, Lancashire. Prior to this the land formed part of $ I Chester county, which, with Philadelphia and Bucks composed I i the three original counties of the Province. At the time of its I i erection into a separate county, Lancaster included all the conn- I I try to the north and west, now