buildings. This site was cleared to permit a shopping and park- ing facility to be constructed. Opposite this site on East King Street are the Lancaster County National Bank and the old Stern Store, both being demolished to make way for a "modern" bank building. Both structures are now gone. New Ern Photo

founded near the present bridge Wright's Ferry, for many years the main gateway into the expanding West, Erected for the Bicentennial of this Historic House and the Sesquicentennial of Colum- bia by the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1938," John Wright was a man who stood out among men in the times

Wheatland's Landscape: 18 4 8-18 6 8 John Shenk Wheatland, the home of President James Buchanan, is a beautiful country estate located a mile and a half west of downtown Lancaster. In- side the vine-covered brick mansion, the rooms and furnishings have been faithfully restored to the minutest

historic Lancaster county, who has painted a scene from a very early incident in the development of the capital town of our county. It represents the arrival of James Hamilton, who laid out this city of ours, in which nearly 70,000 people now reside. �"To create is one of the great satisfactions of life

. Hollow Schoolhouse was one of the first school buildings erected in this portion of Lancaster county. The first building was a humble log structure, which was built by Joseph Rutter on his farm which Conrad Rutter, his father, had taken possession of in 1716. This house was built at the foot of the ridge

year 1819. Esther Cox Clarkson was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Clarkson, who for many years was the rector of St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa. Other Eichholtz portraits now in Reading, Pa., are owned by Miss Marion Douglas Weidman. They consist of a portrait of Mrs. George May