to draw the train upon which the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria, rode when traveling through Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh to Har- risburg, and then on to Baltimore and Washington, in 1860. He actually rode in the cabin of the locomotive, so that he might obtain a better

William Penn in The Conestoga Valley By M. LUTHER HEISEY Pennsylvania, Keystone State of the Union, was brought into existence by a strange course of events—an existence marked from the very start by all the elements making for "virtue, liberty, independence"—a state's motto not carelessly chosen

interned in Lancaster. The Rev. John Henry Hoffmeier served the Reformed Church from 1806 to 1831, and was highly esteemed for his good words and charity. He was so beloved by the congregation that at his death the body was interred in an honored spot beneath the pulpit in the Old Stone Church. THE

palatial residence for himself, but died before the arrival in Colum­ bia of the shipment of the bricks. It is claimed that Henry William Stiegel in his heyday 4 Chronicles of Pennsylvania, 1688-1748, by Charles P. Keith, Philadel­ phia, 1917, p. 2. 4a Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 10, p. 201. 4b

first great highway from the coastal cities. Naturally, Lancaster was among the first towns to secure postal facilities. In this section the first and nearest available postal facilities were in far-off Philadelphia, at which point letters for settlers in the "back country" �The Pennsylvania Gazette of

above, came into possession of the Pennsylvania Railroad on June 21, 1870. JOHN KEllER was born near Elizabethtown, September 19, 1828, of German parentage. From early youth he was employed in railroad work. In 1868 he engaged in contracting and quarrying, and several years later in bridge build- ing

time was, like all inventions, a slow and steady advance. As "Old Dobbin" shied at the first automobile, so people were "camera shy." In some cases you would get the impression that the sitter 1 From a newspaper article published in 1888 by J. M. Johnston. �or "victim" was about to face the guns of a

the same neighborhood. These three potteries formed by themselves 6 The Swope Family, by Gilbert Ernest Swope, 1896. �A POTTER'S WHEEL Courtesy of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society �a veritable little "Bennington" here in Lancaster. While the com- mon ware occupied most of their time, these

associated with his father; first in the gold and sodium business and later in the drug store at 27 East German Street. He made and sold these bitters from the latter address until shortly before his decease on April 21, 1882, when he was buried beside his father. SAMUEL BRUBAKER HARTMAN, M.D., engaged in