MASSACRE OF THE CONESTOGA INDIANS BY THE PAXTANG BOYS-A POEM By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XVIII, pp. 169-185, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster 1 County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled, "Mas- sacre of the Conestoga Indians, 1763: Incidents and Details." In this paper the

THE CONESTOGA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Daily Evening Express, of Wednesday, August 23rd, 1865, contained an announcement that the Conestoga Collegiate Institute, a seminary for young ladies, would begin its first session on Tuesday morning, September 5th. The

lives and do our utmost to make our God-favored land worthy of its inspiring traditions and of its heroic men and women of 1812-14! THE CONESTOGA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE AND ITS FOUNDER By MARY J. BRUNING T HE REV. DR. H. H. BRUNING, founder and principal of the Conestoga Collegiate Institute, was born in

-being, progres'S and security of her people. For on that day, one hundred years ago, a constant and copious supply of water from the Conestoga River was inaugurated, through the establish- ing of forcing pumps at the old City Mill, at the end of Poor House Lane, and the locating of a reservoir on East

THE CONESTOGA RIVER AT LANCASTER By D. B. LANDIS THE present topic, while having been fairly touched upon by local writers and historians, has been by no means fully ex- hausted or fitly recorded. At this period more than usual interest is being aroused by announcement of the building of a new

formed out of the Missouri Territory, are entitled to the warmest thanks of every friend of humanity." These resolutions were unanimously adopted; after which, the meeting adjourned.1 1 Published in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, November 26th, 1819. Efforts to Make Conestoga River Navigable By

The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, December 1st, 1810. The Ship Conestoga By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IT is not generally known, perhaps, that a ship named the "Con- estoga",, so-called, doubtless, in honor of the famous Indian tribe for which the river in Lancaster county was named, once sailed

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