: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

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

the premises as "All that tract of land situate in the County of Lancaster, whereon the court house of said county and sundry other houses and build- ings now stand, containing 500 acres;" and recites that this tract of land was surveyed and laid out in pursuance of the Proprietary's warrant of May 1

Buchanan letters / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Caldwell, James A. Barton, George W., 1807-1851. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [37

Buchanan Made a Mason in Lodge No. 43 December 11, 1816 Worshipful Master 1822-1823 President of the United States 1857-1861 Born, Stony Batter, Franklin Co., Pa. April 23, 1791 Died, Wheatland, Lancaster Co., Pa. June 1, 1868. In the winter of 1816-17, Hon. James Buchanan, then but twenty-five years of

!" exclaimed Mr. Roosevelt, with a pleased smile, as Mrs. Ross presented to him the beautiful cluster of red roses, em- blematic of the house of Lancaster. Publications of The Lancaster County Historical Society, dealing with the life of James Buchanan and an engraving of Pennsylvania's only President, were

the James H. Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was erected on that part of the venerable building now owned and occupied by The Lan- caster County Historical Society. The exercises incident to the unveiling of the tablet, were in charge of Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County

of the Library are cata- logued and arranged on indexed shelves; keeps the Library clean and renders SECOND COURT HOUSE WHICH STOOD IN PENN SQUARE, LANCASTER, PA., FROM 1784 TO 1853. service to the attorneys using the Library. He also enforces the rule of the Association prohibiting books being taken

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

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