History of the Lancaster County Historical Society John Ward Willson Loose As the Lancaster County Historical Society begins its second century of service to the community—to the residents, young and old, of Lancaster County—and to the many visitors, scholars, and researchers that come to our

Society weighed in on Lancaster's morality, it became apparent the task required more than the sharp eyes of a handful of public-spirited citizens. An agent was employed to keep an eye on what was going on in Lancaster. He checked magazine stands and motion picture houses and dance halls. He kept an

brick residences that came to line the streets of Columbia at the end of the eighteenth century. Originally the home had a very steeply gabled roof that was covered with wooden shingles �94 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY and flanked by end chimneys. A few surviving windows reveal

Languages and Literature from Harvard University in 1974. Now a professor of German at Millersville University he was previously Executive Director of the Urban League of Lancaster County. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and is president of the Lancaster County Historical Society. This