creek. The fourth paper mill to be set up within the Province, and which was per- haps the most important one in regard to its output, was located upon the romantic banks of the Cocalico, at Ephrata, in Lancaster county. It is upon this enterprise that I wish to speak, and bring to your llotice a few

have a de- cided value of their own, inasmuch as they throw new light on some points in the history of the Ephrata Brother- hood. The Letters. "The gentleman at whose house I am entertained is one of the people called Quakers, and a wealthy merchant in this city, to whom I had a letter from Mr. L . of

Churches at Sinsheim. In 1772 he came to America, accompanied by his half -brother, the Rev. John H. Helfrich, and the Rev. J. G. Gebhard. Helfrich settled in Lehigh county and his charge has ever since been occupied by one of his descendants. Gebhard became pastor at Claverack, N. Y., where he founded a

his lot was cast, Each hero struggled through a past Of dubious fears, but, at the last, All vacillation And tremor being thrust aside, Purpose was resolute, to abide Whatever upshot should betide The new-fledged nation. xv. Fifty-six names were written there, In all the world's long history, where

more fortunate than their fellow-citizens here in Lancaster, who scored a partial success only. But I return to the first page of the record book,on which I find the follow- ing: "ANNO DOMINI 1786. "The Revd. Mr. Melsheimer, Minis- ter of the German Lutheran Congrega- tion at New Holland, after

Digging and Devotion at the Gap Nickel Mines Since 1857 Jean M. Lichty Two churches, located in the Nickel Mines community today, are like a memorial to a once-great mining industry during the most profitable years of its existance, between the latter 1850's and 1893. The churches were closed for a

Cider Press at Hess Mill A cider press was an important feature of the well-ordered and com- plete early 19th-century farm mill. Presses were constructed in a variety of styles. Essentially, however, provision had to be made for extracting the juice of the apples by great pressure. Generally this

at 290 Broadway in New York City. A newspaper article stated that "from every indi- cation this is the beginning of a large and lucrative business."41 Such was not to be the case. Debts continued to increase and on November 27, 1919, Isaac C. Hartman, treasurer of the company, went into United States

before the Revolution and at least as early as 1768, for in April of that year when the fabulous "Baron" Stiegel purchased the property the amount of the transaction is scrupulously recorded in the Furnace account book. The "Minehole" was valued at thirty pounds, eight shillings, a figure difficult to

, New Hampshire, took there the name of its titled English benefactor, the second Earl of Dartmouth. At this school, tensions developed between William and the other students of so serious a nature that Wheelock was compelled to ask John- son to rebuke his son for "pride and violence of temper." Instead