a chasm ex- isted between the two segments of the black community. I The twenty Negro barbers of Lancaster City and Columbia borough2 who clipped the hair and shaved the beards of the white community in 1850 shared common economic and social back- grounds. They were all members of six well-to-do

population are valuable sources of information on the social and economic conditions of Pennsylvania Negroes. Edward S. Adby's Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America, from April, 1833 to October, 1834 (3 vols., London, 1835); the West Chester Negro, John Tillman's Biographical

The Negro Entry Book: A Document of Lancaster City's Antebellum Afro-American Community By Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins in his Heritage of Lancaster (1978) John W. W. Loose refers to an ordinance that required all "free persons of color" to register with the Mayor's Office.' Since this particular ordinance

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster: Prolegomenon to a Social History by Leroy Hopkins, Ph.D. in Lancaster City"s southeastern quadrant, at the juncture of North and Strawberry Streets, stands a structure which has long been connected with Lancaster"s Afro-American community: Bethel Africa

assessors were required to report to them persons requiring aid or support. A considerable amount of money to be applied to the support of the poor was given by Samuel Blunston of Columbia, by his will in 1745. In compliance with the will of Bernard McEnally of Lancaster, the institution was granted

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, entitled, "Seeing America's Garden Spot, Lancaster: the Red Rose City of Pennsylvania." While I heartily commend the Chamber of Commerce for its praise-worthy efforts to acquaint tourists with points of interest in Lancaster city and county, I deeply regret that the pamphlet