and Winnower GENERAL EDWARD HAND, EXPERIMENTAL FARMER Research undertaken by the Rock Ford Foundation relative to the life and activities of that Revolutionary War personality and his Lancaster mansion reveals General Hand to have been quite interested in agricultural improvements. In 1773 a group

in Pennsylvania, known as Lancaster County, has developed into the "Garden Spot of Amer- ica."' Lancastrians, whether native or adopted, pride themselves on a past steeped on heroic actions and of their forefathers' participa- tion and contributions in the shaping and guiding of not only their county

Fletcher, Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life 1640-1840, p. 229. 12. "Two Wheatlands In County," The Lancaster Sunday News, March 21, 1943, p. 13. 13. Information received in conversation with Mr. H. P. Smith, Jr., chairman of Wheatland grounds committee, Tuesday, March 12, 1963. 14. "New Garden

NCASTER PA. H ROSE WATER -- Pure. ARTICLES EAS1 lI 11:1 15 .TESTOMONIAL ti HA ica THE HOLIDAYS t Su t LADIES DO YOU WANT TO BUY E.J.ERIS A �Christmas in Lancaster in 1874 Notwithstanding the cry of "hard times," the celebration of Christmas in this community [Lancaster] was more general and ex- tensive

professional museum and archives standards. The collection was cataloged using DACS conventions. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Folder 1 Explanation by J. Earl Way and photocopies of photographs Folder 1, Insert 1 “How I Got Started in

a great deal about the eco- nomic and social differences long noted in other historical accounts between this Negro occupational group and the mass of common black laborers. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a particularly representa- tive and appropriate place for a study of this nature. Most

Clement Bates Grubb Builds a House on Lime Street (Editor's Note: We are indebted to James Rawle of Philadelphia for un- covering these notes from Grubb's Account Book in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) Building a house on a square of ground purchased of Ann M. Eveans. At the suggestion of

Old St. Mary's of Lancaster, Pa. : The Jesuit Period,1741-1785 Edgar A. Musser THE BISHOPS WHO GOVERNED THE CHURCH IN COLONIAL AMERICA The Catholic Church throughout the world is—under the Sovereign Pontiff—governed by bishops and archbishops, so that in almost every part of the earth it is under

. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: 1949. Gilbert, Mrs. Margaret. Foster daughter of Uriah Eckert. Interview, April 4, 1964, at her home in Gap, Pa. Houston, R. J. "The Gap Copper Mines" in Lancaster County Historical Society. Pennsylvania: The New Era, 1897. Lancaster Newspaper. No Title. February 21, 1959. Landis

Content Note: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Series 1 includes employee handbooks, a job description, a beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic

St. Mary's Church Lancaster, Pa. 1785 - 1877 Edgar A. Musser FOREWORD Supplementing that which has been related in an earlier Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society on the Jesuit period in St. Mary's Church history [Vol. 71, pp. 69-136], the following items are added to the record

The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County, Pa. :1828-1843 John Edward McNeal PREFACE Political Antimasonry in the United States is a subject which, for the most part, has been neglected by historians. The best single work on the subject is Charles McCarthy's "The Antimasonic Party: A Study of Po