persecuted Hussites at his Barony of Lititz. The suggestion to honor Zinzendorf and mark this old house came to The Lancaster County Historical Society from one of its members, Samuel H. Ranck, noted librarian of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doubtless the historical facts and importance of the place were brought

. • THOMAS DICKEY was a clockmaker in Marietta, and later in Harris- burg. He is listed among the taxables in 1812-1814 (see Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 625). One of his clocks ran far afield; it was taken by wagon from Marietta to the Niagara frontier, New York State, in 1828, by

. He was the last of eight color guards to be wounded, and when, he tried to escape was shot and killed by a rebel guard. Among the many men enrolled from New Holland and vicinity was Wil- liam Heller, who gave his life in the battle. The full list of casualties suffered by the Lancaster companies, A

from the upper reaches of the Conestoga. ANALYSES AND CRITICISMS Critics of the clarity and palatability of the water supply are by no means of a modern order. In 1744, Witham Marshe was in Lancaster as secretary of the Maryland Commissioners, who, with those of Virginia and Pennsylvania, held the

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

sheriff's turn, with jurisdiction over affairs of a public nature, and to present offenses and punish offenses below the grade of felony. At one time, the Pennsylvania Historical Commission planned to mark every prominent manor which the Penns established. The first marker in this project was placed on the

, that he spent the prime of his life in Lancaster County and that he gave Pennsylvania two sons who followed closely in his footsteps. While he is also well known as an educator and a clergyman, I am concerned chiefly in his career as a scientist. We must admit that Frederick Valentine Melsheimer was

Lancaster County Academy, by Wil- liam Frederic Worner, see Vol. XXXVI, pp. 83-100, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society. �bridge was a narrow, wooden one, painted red; its successor, built of iron, extended the full width of the street, from house line to house line; the present

in Lancaster County, where on the 13th day of May I preached the first sermon. On June 3rd, 1779 I was married to Maria Agnes Man. The birthplace of my wife was Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her father's name was Samuel Man and her mother's name Anna Catharina. "November 12th, 1784, I removed to Manheim