quality of this sound can be sensed when it is remembered that the Upper Hammer Creek Valley with its forges was separated from the valley of the Lititz Creek by an intervening ridge of hills between the towns of Lexington and Brunnerville. The cast iron pigs, which fed these forges during their first

. Root, Vice- President and Treasurer, of Allentown, Pa.; Mr. L. C. Pursell, Second Vice-President, of Allentown, Pa.; and to Mr. James Huebner, Vice-President, Lancaster Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Most of the material in this study has been secured from data and records owned by the

. James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the United States in President Coolidge's administration, at Lititz, Pa., about twenty years ago. Mr. Beck was a Lancaster Countian, a native of Lititz, and a first cousin of our Society's President, Dr. Herbert H. Beck. His familiarity with records of the United

of the new town; perhaps they bought lots here for speculation. Anna Nutt and Company were owners of the Coventry and Warwick Iron Works near French Creek, Chester County. Robert Grace was a friend of Benjamin Franklin, and manufactured the famous "Franklin" stove; his wife on one occasion aided and