A VISIT TO HISTORICAL SCENES* (Describing a visit to Lancaster, Pa., in July, 1926) By HARRY PRINGLE FORD It was a rare privilege recently to visit the attractive city of Lancaster, Pa., sixty-eight miles west of Philadelphia, with its wealth of historical asso- ciations and its many evidences of

- riched, from five to ten or more generations, the folk in this home- loving settlement at the centre of the Garden Spot of America. Conestoga river, Lancaster's stream— Flowing forever — an artist's dream. Since 1907 I have been personally pleased to photograph hun- dreds of scenic and historic places

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

and Carnarvon in Lancaster county, and of the churches of Huntington, Bermudian Hundred, in the county of York, and Carlisle, in Cumberland county, on the western side of the Susquehanna river, in the Province of Pennsylvania, sheweth, �"That for several years before the happy arrival of the Rev

CONESTOGA By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 75-113, of the Proceedings of The Lan- Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster." In that paper the author, the late William Uhler Hensel, Esq., de- scribed, in minute