conceal its historical significance, the reader should understand that 1830 marked the end of Democratic Party control of Lancaster County, and that Caldwell's contentions may have been symbolic of the county mood toward stewardship and in- tegrity of local government officials in 1830. That those strict

Lancaster County Politics:1799 - 1810 Alan Kreider The preeminent fact of the political history of America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is the decline of the Federalist Party and the ascendancy of Jeffersonian Republicanism. Pennsylvania in many ways epitomized this trend

a source of strength and unity which brought on a revival of Federalism un- matched throughout the State of Pennsylvania. The immediate purpose of this paper is to study the politics of the war period in Lancaster County from 1811 to 1815, emphasizing the developments which occurred within the

County Antimasonic Party in national and state affairs. Secondly, I shall disclose how the Anti- masonic Party completely dominated local politics in Lancaster County for more than a decade, and why this particular county was so receptive to this "peculiar movement." Lastly, I shall point out many of the

H. "The Negro in Northern Politics, 1870-1900". Mississippi �Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. Hensel, William U. "An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence". Lancaster County Historical Society Papers, XV, No. 4 (April

March 2022. Folder 21 Advertising flier for the Tribune and Public Advertiser, “a new & cheap Whig paper”. R. W. Middleton, publisher, chairman of the Antimasonic and Which Committee of Correspondence of Lancaster County, 12 January 1846. Transferred from Document Collection, Box 31, Folder 13, Item 1

Company of Hartford, Conn., and Lewis Haldy of Lancaster, Pa. for the first part and the Lancaster County Mon- umental Association for the second part do hereby agree as follows: Said parties of the first part agree to furnish and set complete upon foundation provided by said parties of the second part in

seek- ing the true principles of science, government, and life itself. William Penn, a member of the Royal Society of London, founded Pennsylvania in 1782, a colony, "which should open its doors to every kindred, tongue and nation: which should transplant from the Old World the best in arts, sciences

a $500 mortgage bond, a blank stock certificate, and a requisition for high- tension lines. [18__]-1912. Folder 8 Conestoga Traction Co. Booklet of early histories, “Lancaster Co., Pa.,” which describes the company’s history, its routes, and sights along the way. 1 August 1908. Booklet by H. W