The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part Two —1762- 1980 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE CIVIL WAR YEARS 1862 —1867 Rev. Frederick W. Conrad, D. D. Rev. Samuel Laird. D. D. A successor to Doctor Krotel was selected in the person of Rev. Frederick William Conrad

Lightning Strikes Spire of Trinity Lutheran Church By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0 N Tuesday, May 13th, 1823, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the beautiful spire of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, pride of Lancaster, and an ancient land-mark, was struck by lightning

the weather permitted, "to perform some of his best Italian tunes in the steeple of the [Trinity] Lutheran church." It is to be regretted that no subsequent reference to this concert, if it was held, appears in the local press of that period. "If the weather permitted" this concert to be given, it

, John W. Title: Old Trinity Steeple / by John W. Lippold. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Trinity Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) Spires. Lutherans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lutheran Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Church architecture. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Subject(s): Trinity Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) Cemeteries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lutherans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lutheran Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928 Description: 109-117 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster

affiliated with the Lutheran Ministerium of Penn- sylvania until 1953 when all (excluding the Missouri Synod churches) except Lancaster's Holy Trinity Church became members of the General Pennsylvania Synod during a realignment. Later the Lancaster church joined the CP Synod. Many of the rural congregations