buildings. This site was cleared to permit a shopping and park- ing facility to be constructed. Opposite this site on East King Street are the Lancaster County National Bank and the old Stern Store, both being demolished to make way for a "modern" bank building. Both structures are now gone. New Ern Photo

Wheatland's Landscape: 18 4 8-18 6 8 John Shenk Wheatland, the home of President James Buchanan, is a beautiful country estate located a mile and a half west of downtown Lancaster. In- side the vine-covered brick mansion, the rooms and furnishings have been faithfully restored to the minutest

1749. Entire extent of Lancaster County during that period is shown in insert map. county-seat, purchasees selected John Postlethwait's Tavern as the site for the first court house of Lancaster County. Located in Con- estoga Township, near Rockville and close to the Little Conestoga Creek

. 5, 1836 �THE REDOUBTABLE HARRIET LANE Harriet Rebecca Lane, daughter of Elliot T. Lane and wife Jane Bu- chanan (sister of President James Buchanan), was born May 9, 1830, at Mercersburg, Pa., in the home later known as the Waidlich House on Main Street. She was doubly orphaned at the age of eleven

$70,000 to the purchase fund.) From this prototype have sprung, mostly within the past three or four decades, the hundreds of "historic house museums" that now dot the land. The restored house under the care of a voluntary local association Rock Ford as it appeared in the mid-1880's. Notice the porches

Clement Bates Grubb Builds a House on Lime Street (Editor's Note: We are indebted to James Rawle of Philadelphia for un- covering these notes from Grubb's Account Book in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) Building a house on a square of ground purchased of Ann M. Eveans. At the suggestion of