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

-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

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

Fords and Bridges, Across the Conestoga from Morgantown to Hinkletown. COMPILED BY M. G. WEAVER. We may enumerate the great advantages and note the wealth wrapped up in the powers of the Conestoga, and of the fertility of the soils rendered profitable by it and by its numerous branches in its sixty

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

A PLEA FOR THE CONESTOGA RIVER. "Are not Albana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" Perhaps I cannot introduce my theme more appropriately than by quoting a few lines from the greatest of Scotch poets, addressed to his friend, William Simson, entreating him to