, of Windom, Lancaster County, Pa. As we view this beautiful agricultural section today its past has been so. completely obscured that scarcely a trace remains to remind us of the role of historical importance which it has played. Let us then review and if pos- sible picture some of the scenes which

erected 5 The map of Fulton Township, in the County Commissioners' Office, shows 5.4 miles. 6 Pennsylvania—Political, Governmental, Military and Civil. F. A. God- charles, 1933. 7 R. H. Heindel, Pennsylvania History, VI, January, 1939. 8 Thomas D. Cope, Pennsylvania History, October, 1939. �came to be

old ruins was of such a high order that the superbly hewn blocks of stone have long ago been hauled away to be used again in building the foundations of barns and bridges. The lower part of the historic Martha Furnace is still standing a short distance south of Reidsburg. It is used as a spring house

horseshoes. which often carried many horseshoes to the mile. Whence the name Horse- shoe Pike." Phares E. Will, as the writer remembers him, had a wide and apparently accurate knowledge of the technical lore of northern Lancaster County. His blacksmith shop at Penryn was on the historic Newport road. 3 Henry

and government--1775-1783. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 101-103 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

and rifling tools, etc. The half-ton of iron at £28 a ton, must have been bar iron,26 which, though it might have been imported, was probably first obtained at Rutter's Forge (1716), along the Manatawny Creek (now in Berks County), later at Pine, Pool or McCall's Forges (1725) along the same creek

sub- sequently a member of the Hartford County Commission. Christian Shultz, the fifth, lived here as a boy and later was lost in the Klondike rush. In introducing Beaver Mills and their historic relationships, as the reader has briefly attempted to do this afternoon, he is re-impressed with a truth

lived near what is now Exeter, Berks county, the famous frontiersman announces that lie is bringing Lincoln from Kentucky a well-broke saddle horse and a pack of hounds. �Family records of the late Dr. J. B. Lincoln, who owned the Boone letter, indicate that the horse and hounds made the long trail