Bloody Dawn A play by John W. W. Loose During Lancaster County's observance of the Republic's bicentennial of the American Revolution, the Quarryville Chamber of Commerce with the enthusiastic approval of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee decided to stage a gala event on Saturday, 26 June

affiliated with the Lutheran Ministerium of Penn- sylvania until 1953 when all (excluding the Missouri Synod churches) except Lancaster's Holy Trinity Church became members of the General Pennsylvania Synod during a realignment. Later the Lancaster church joined the CP Synod. Many of the rural congregations

Lead and Zinc Industry in Lancaster County by John W. W. Loose Lancaster's role in the lead and zinc industry is another piece of hidden history. Persons travelling the Old Harrisburg Pike or the newer highway (Route 283) between McGovernville and Landisville would never recognize the quiet little

Secretary of Highways informed Mr. Worner the date of 1721 had come from Colonel Henry Shoemaker, at that time of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission. This was the same Col. Shoemaker who decided that Henry William Stiegel of late eigh- teenth century glass and iron fame at Manheim was really a Hol