Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, September 5, 1902, Vol. 7: Historical Points of Interest Along the Strasburg Trolley Road, And, Minutes of September Meeting The new trolley line from Lancaster to Strasburg passes over a route that is not only most picturesque, exhibiting a panorama of rare natural beauty and a landscape approaching the perfection of rural culture, but the whole region is replete with historical interest, and the landmarks of bygone days bear many lessons of value to the present generation. Starting at Penn Square, the centre of the city, we are within a stone's throw of the site of Hickory Tree tavern, kept by George Gibson, the early resort of Indians and of foreign traders, which gave the locality the name of Indian Field and later Gib son's pasture, and with the small clus ter of habitations scattered along the King's Highway, now King street, formed the nucleus of the future shire town of Lancaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.