LANCASTER LORE Tidbits of History Among the favorite events in Lancaster County of a hundred or so years ago were the annual Wharton Grove revival meetings. Begun in 1893 and continuing until 1927, they attracted people to the Weems area from all over the Chesapeake. Some came for religious purposes, others for social ones. The founder's son, James Wharton, wrote years after Wharton Grove's ...