HOLLOW SCHOOL An Old School And A Letter Written By A Teacher 146 Years Ago. (Reprinted from an article in the New Holland Clarion of April 29, 1893.) Over in Leacock township, along what is known as the Ridge Road, stands the Hollow Schoolhouse. Standing, as it does, on the top of a ridge, from

OLD SANDSTONE SCHOOLHOUSE Lancaster County goes unchallenged in the claim of having within its borders, the oldest schoolhouse in continuous service found in any section of Pennsylvania. After the abandonment of Durlach School in 1904, following a service extending through one hundred and four

new school house was erected near the old log building, on land owned by Peter Reist. About 1846, the abandoned log building was occupied by George Peffer and his wife, Mollie. The old school was now transformed into a "church," for Mr. Peffer, being a man of strong religious convictions, secured

- bridge entertained the members of the Historical Society most hospitably within the old mansion, and one more pleasant and important piece of his- torical work of the Lancaster County Historical Society passed into history. �THE JAMES WRIGHT TABLET COMMITTEE MAJOR GENERAL E, C, SHANNON, Chairman C, H

December, 1847, and were buried on the same day. I History of Lancaster County, by Ellis and Evans, 1883, page 374. 2 An Authentic History of Lancaster County, by J. I. Mombert, D.D., 1869, page 426. �Others living in this block were Herman Hirsh, Philip A. Metzger, Susan Carpenter Frazer, Elizabeth B

provide better for them. In the county of Berks there is a number of people of the communion of the Church of England, who have never had an Episcopal minister among them, and I intend to visit them in the spring and shall acquaint you with the result. "I went into the army for the reasons which I gave

its most illustrious benefactor; Dr. John A. Schaeffer, president of this College; Alumni and friends: "The Lancaster County Historical Society, formed to investigate and per- petuate local history and tradition, has in time past marked with substantial tablets places of unusual historical interest

at Franklin & Marshall College and member of the Executive Committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Pro- fessor Barnes, in turn presented as the speaker of the day, Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and an authority on the history

Lemon Mary Mulberry Pearl Prince Reservoir RockIand Strawberry C. Elvin Haupt Thomas Wharton Samuel Dale Thomas Mifflin Jacob Eichholtz James P. Wickersham E. E. Higbee Adam Reigart Names for Lancaster Schools Following a request from the Lancaster City School Board, Dr. Herbert H. Beck appointed a

the county seat and the site upon which Lancaster city later was to be built) was formally unveiled and presented to the people of Lancaster by Milton Thomas Garvin, prominent merchant, philanthropist and civic leader, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversary of his entrance into business. At a