Daughter of George W.Dixon. She was born in 1863 and died April 4, 1882. She was the great granddaughter of William Dixon.

LITITZ AND THE MORAVIAN SETTLEMENT.

The Moravian church settlement at Lititz was not begun until 1754 and the village was not laid out until 1757, but its origin is traced to the efforts of Count Zinzendorf, patron of the Renewed Church of the United Brethren, or Moravians, in 1742-43.

Schools

It was out of the Sisters' House that Linden Hall, the famous girls' school, grew; and its beginning really dates bick to the Rev. Schnell's little school in the old Gemeinhaus. That was carried on till 1765, when it was divided, the girls being taught in the Sisters' House, and the boys continuing for a time in the original building, which, being built of logs, was then taken down and rebuilt in the town, on a lot nearlv opposite the Sisters' House. In 1766 several Moravian girls from Lancaster were admitted into the girls' school, and in 1794 little eight-year-old Peggy Marvel, from Baltimore, the first non-Moravian pupil, was entered. After this the school grew rapidly and pupils from all over the country, and be- yond, have been enrolled. An additional house for the school, now the main building, was erected in 1769, and later en-larged. The Mary Dixon Memorial Chapel was presented to the school in 1885, by George W. Dixon, the father of one of the students. The Post-Graduate Department, begun in 1880, was expanded into a junior College in 1935. Today the school occupies four large buildings, and has a spacious, beautifully landscaped campus. It celebrated its bicentennial in 1940.

250th Anniversary of Lititz