TOWN REGULATIONS OF LITITZ, 1759 By HERBERT H. BECK* The Congregation Village, or, as it was called, the "Economy" of Lititz, was founded upon a plan of Count Zinzendorf and the Vicarius Generalis of his religious projects in America, Augustus Spangenberg. Bethlehem and Nazareth had already been

LITITZ AS AN EARLY MUSICAL CENTRE. THEhistoryofmusicinLancastercountybeginswiththeearlyreligiousmovements. The county of high agricul- tural destiny was in the mak- ing—with axe and plowshare—and there was neither opportunity nor oc- casion for serious or organized effort in the field of music

some of them away, and otherwise cutting up and despoiling many parts of the same." A Visit to Lititz, Lancaster County, in 1799. In his diary, Jacob Peirce, of Long- wood, East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pa., thus describes his visit to the Moravians at Lititz, Lan- caster county: 1 Mo. 19

Hanover, York County Hershey, Derry Twp., Dauphin County Ironville, West Hempfield Twp. J. G. Brill Co. Kinport Road Lancaster Lancaster & York Street Railway Company Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company Lancaster, Elizabethtown

to. The presence in Washington of Gen. Sutter led ultimately to his choice of Lititz as a place to spend the remain- ing years of his fast-waning life. Hav- ing learned of the excellent education- al facilities offered by the Moravian Church at Bethlehem and Lititz, he sent his two granddaughters to

The Thomas Wagon Company of Lititz: Pioneer Motor Truck Manufacturer in Lancaster County. by Donald J. Summar In the first decade of the Twentieth Century the most prosper- ous and successful industries in the quiet town of Lititz, Pennsylvan- ia, were the Ideal Cocoa and Chocolate Company and the

The Memorial Marker to General John Augustus Sutter By M. LUTHER HEISEY Not the magnet of gold—but respect for the character of the man that gold, rather the discovery of gold, ruined—General John Augustus Sutter— drew hundreds to the staid, quiet old town of Lititz, Pennsylvania, for the occasion

active in Lancaster County, the majority prior to the introduction of percussion guns. To this list may be added Andrew Albright of Lititz, (1718-1802) ; W. C. Buchmiller of Lancaster, of the percussion period and later. His large factory was on Market street aside of the Franklin House stables

unveiling of the tablet to the memory of Count Zinzendorf, at the home of D. Paul Hershey, located on the old Newport Road, one mile north of Lititz, Pa., on Sunday, Oc- tober 11th, 1936. The actual unveiling was done by Mary Jane Hershey, the ten- year-old daughter of Mrs. Sue Snyder Hershey, whose family