EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE AND ITS HISTORY IN LANCASTER COUNTY* By D. B. LANDIS FROM the beginning of human experience man has been a per- sistent walker. Throughout the ages his locomotive travels were aided by further assistance from horses and camels. Then came the addition of chariots, carts and

in the Landis Valley Museum. Distilleries for creating liquor became more or less localized in sections of Lancaster county. One of the nearest and best �known to the writer, was the Jacob Bear place, between Rohrers- town and the Three Mile Tavern, where "J. B. Rye Whiskey" was made as a brand of

other archaeological specimens and minerals. In this regular manner, from week to week, traversing miles of local terri- tory, many discoveries were made. A number of these findings, with personal impressions, are here presented for permanent record in The Lancaster County Historical Society's

Lancaster Magazine Clubs of the Nineties By D. B. LANDIS T HE topic of magazine clubs in this locality is a new one for his- torical observation and reference. Not one of the numerous papers in the last thirty odd years, presented before The Lan- caster County Historical Society, contains an

airplane age. MILLS AND MILL DAMS What was the first mill in Lancaster county, according to Mrs. Mary N. Robinson's paper in our proceedings of Vol. XI, page 24, opens our list of mills on the Conestoga river at Lancaster's gates. �Stephen Atkinson built a fulling mill, in 1730, between locations which a