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

, Pennsylvania State Archives, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Joy Jay Wisler, Sr. MSS, John Ward Willson Loose Archives (Private Collection), Lancaster, Pennsylvania. B. Newspapers Bethania Palladium, 1830-1837 Columbia (Pa.) Herald, 1903-1905 Columbia (Pa.) Spy and Lancaster and York County Reporter, 1830-1867

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

Lancaster County Politics:1799 - 1810 Alan Kreider The preeminent fact of the political history of America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is the decline of the Federalist Party and the ascendancy of Jeffersonian Republicanism. Pennsylvania in many ways epitomized this trend

a distillery in 1782, Lititz eventually became a distilling cen­ ter in Lancaster County. �Jacob Leman, a French Huguenot, joined the ranks of brewers by 1792. Michael Bernitz, and Krug, Kleiss and Leman were oper­ ating brew houses in 1808.4 Four county breweries existed in 1810; their total

Lancaster County and almost every town and village had a brass band. It was the Local Union No. 294 of the American Federation of Musicians that adopted the following resolution proposed by C. C. Donnelly on Jan- uary 22, 1905: Resolved, that hereafter there shall be one day in the year set apart for the