adopted, and some of the Negroes' friends rallied to their support. By the early 1840's, the local colonization societies lay dormant. See William Frederic Worner, "The Lancaster County Colonization Society", Lancaster County Historical Society Papers (hereafter cited L.C.H.S.P.), XXVI, No. 5 (May, 1922

in Pennsylvania, known as Lancaster County, has developed into the "Garden Spot of Amer- ica."' Lancastrians, whether native or adopted, pride themselves on a past steeped on heroic actions and of their forefathers' participa- tion and contributions in the shaping and guiding of not only their county

-five miles west of Lancaster. In its early days, that part of the Conewago Valley with which we are concerned, was claimed by Maryland as part of her colony. Pennsylvania also claimed it, and back in the 1730's and 1740's, it was a part of Lancaster County. Not until after the Mason-Dixon survey was

Gilmore Day: Lancaster Musical Holiday Honoring Patrick S. Gilmore Mrs. Erwin H. Johnson Lancaster County once had its own musical holiday, GILMORE DAY, celebrated in the memory of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore the great Irish-American bandmaster. First observed on June 12, 1905, being initiated by the

known grandfathers' clocks were a symbol of prosperity in the eightheenth century. They flourished especially in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts but gave way to the cheaper "wag on the wall" and shelf clocks by the 1840's and 1850's. These long clocks, according to the records of the Fraser clockmakers

The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County, Pa. :1828-1843 John Edward McNeal PREFACE Political Antimasonry in the United States is a subject which, for the most part, has been neglected by historians. The best single work on the subject is Charles McCarthy's "The Antimasonic Party: A Study of Po

the authorities in the maintenance and enforcement of the same." This group called itself "The Law and Order Society" of Lancaster County, Pa. A Guarantee Fund financed by the selling of $25 shares was established. One dollar annual dues were charged to members. In addition to the usual officers, the

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

houses on East King Street, it brings to mind the names of those once actively engaged at these places. In imagination we can see the spirits of William L. Peiper (cashier of the Lancaster County National Bank) and John N. Lane, merchant, in ani- mated conversation on the work of the wrecking crews

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