. The story of Lancaster: old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918 . ars after the arrival of Wilham Penn on theshores of the Delaware, two years before GeorgeWashington was born, and fully four decades beforethe Declaration was proclaimed in IndependenceHall in Philadelphia, the name Lancaster, Pennsyl-vania, was already on the map, and there it hasremained down imtil the close of this, the year of ourLord 1917. During these one himdred and eighty-seven years,more than seven generations of dwellers have come,played their part and
. The story of Lancaster: old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918 . ars after the arrival of Wilham Penn on theshores of the Delaware, two years before GeorgeWashington was born, and fully four decades beforethe Declaration was proclaimed in IndependenceHall in Philadelphia, the name Lancaster, Pennsyl-vania, was already on the map, and there it hasremained down imtil the close of this, the year of ourLord 1917. During these one himdred and eighty-seven years,more than seven generations of dwellers have come,played their part and then passed silently away tobe remembered for a time, then forgotten. Thehistory of this city of fifty thousand, if gathered bythe chronicler, must be largely from musty recordsstored away among the archives of other decayedvolumes that have served their day and resurrect these has been not only a duty but apleasure on the part of the chronicler, actuated withthe same desire as have others in rummaging throughsome old book-shop, sometimes through idle curi-osity, at others, to bring into hght things that have 10. o 00 I- h- < _l<oo GO z< DC CCUJ HCO uli > UJ COQ QQ
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