REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un

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MASSACRE OF THE CONES- TOGA INDIANS, 1763. INCIDENTS AND DETAILS. The events which preceded the massacre of the Conestoga Indians, the French and Indian war, followed by Pontiac's war, and the plundering and murdering of defenseless famil- ies of the frontier settlements, tend- ed to accentuate the

Early Conestoga Navigation The first effort to make the Cones- toga river an avenue of trade and commerce was the Act of March 9, 1771 (p. 627, Vol. 1, of Bioren laws), making that river (as well as some of the upper streams of Pennsylvania) a public highway as far as Matthias Slough's mill dam

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

Stories Radiating From Conestoga Centre BY M. LUTHER HEISEY One of the names given in early times to Conestoga Centre was the rather inelegant, but withal descriptive, term of "Pinch Gut." It is irre- futably shown as such on a map of 1824. A wandering bard looking about the place was tempted to

Number Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Volume # Cemetery Number Page Number 372 Foutz Adaline July 25, 1867 January 4, 1868 Harnish Graveyard Conestoga Township 1 5 28 397 Foutz Catharine July 28, 1850 June 21, 1853

Chester county, extending indefinitely westward from the Octo- rara. Even after the organization of Conestoga township, in 1718, a much more extensive region was popularly known as "Conestoga." In the eastern district the members of the Reformed and Lutheran Churches were in the majority, but in

The "Cloven Foot" Rediscovered: The Historiography of the Conestoga Massacre Through Three Centuries of Scholarship by Edwin Thomas Schock, Jr. In the preface to his 1987 text Arguing With Historians, Richard Nelson Current defined the pursuit of historiography as the business of separating the

Conestoga Transportation Company 1931-1976 by Robert E. Sauer, Jr. A four-mile horsecar line between Lancaster and Millersville opened in November 1874 was the first transit route in the network that was to become Conestoga Transportation Co. The first electric line in the area started operating