MURAL PRESENTED TO CITY OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WARNER On Friday evening, December 28th, 1934, a mural painted on one of the walls of the council chamber of the municipal building, (depicting "The Arrival of James Hamilton," in 1729, who came for the purpose of establishing Hickory town as

CONTINENTAL STABLES IN LANCASTER By JACOB HILL BYRNE, ESQ. T HE lot of ground on which the building of The Lancaster County His- torical Society stands, 307 North Duke street, Lancaster, was part of an original tract of 500 acres. William Penn, Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, by deeds

Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Bicentennial of the James Wright House and the Sesquicentennial of the Borough of Columbia, Pennsylvania By ELIZABETH F, G, HIESTAND a Five Great Granddaughter of John Wright Paraphrasing the words of the old familiar song, "The sun shone bright on the old

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

. Herbert H. Beck and C. H. Martin of the Lancaster County Historical Society; Rev. Arlington Gerhard of Philadelphia ; Rev. John B. Bucher of Ephrata, and the writer. Talks were also given by teachers who served at the old and the new Clay Schoolhouses. On such occasions, it is customary to give a history

with Pennsylvania. The petition was copied from Bishop Perry's work which accounts for the error creeping into the pages of the Journal of The Lancaster County His- torical Society. A photostat copy of the original petition now in the archives of the S. P. G., in London, reveals that its correct date

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS ALONG LIME STREET, LANCASTER, PA. By M. LUTHER HEISEY The logical starting point of our sketch of Lime street, from its begin- nings, and of some of those who at one time had, or now have, their homes on this thoroughfare, is East King street. There, on the northwest corner

Bergstrasse Lutheran Churchyard. ALBRIGHT, Conrad: d. Oct. 7, 1823, in 30th year. Pvt. in Capt. Thomas R. Buchanan's Co. of Rangers. L. C. H. S. Pub., Vol. 37, p. 179; Ellis and Evans' Hist. of Lanc. Co., p. 82. Buried in Maytown Reformed Churchyard. ALBRIGHT, Jacob (Mayor of Lancaster, Pa., 1855) : b. June

THE SCHOOL AT BAKER'S CORNER One of the First Public School Buildings in Rapho Township by D. M. BAKER Up in Rapho Township, at the intersection of the Green Pine Hill road with the public road leading from Mount Joy to Mount Hope, stood a log building, which was erected in 1830 as a "temple of