HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT AND BRIDGE SPANNING SUSQUEHANNA RIVER 3 MILES BELOW CONOWINGO By D. F. MAGEE Many people know in a general way but few have stopped to consider that, within thirty-two miles as the crow flies and forty-five miles by good, hard, smooth roads, there has been built and now near

miles to Boston to do battle for his country, leaving behind his young bride, whom he had married but three months before. At Lancaster they were joined by others, principally from the northwestern section of the county, and Matthew Smith was selected as Captain with Archibald Steele as First Lieutenant

and three-quarters of an acre, together with six acres added to the hundred for roads and highways, or a total acreage of four hundred and thirty-five acres of land, neat measure, situated in Conestoga Manor, afterwards and now called Manor Township, in Lancaster County. The story of the setting aside

by a much shorter process by laying before the reader three dominating and uncontradicted facts as shown in the Marshall Diary and in the Court House records. In the Diary of Christopher Marshall under date of April 16, 1777, we find this entry. "Near five came Paul Fooks, Dr. Phyle and Col John Cox

Isaac Taylor orig- inally, and as carried through the several transfers and conveyances as above recited; the same courses being followed after the tract was cut in two by the Atkinsons, was as follows: BEGINNING at a Locust tree by the banks of the Susquehanna River, thence East by North three hundred