Identified left to right: Robert H. Jones, Dorothy Jones, Mrs. Trimble, Herbert Kauffman, Thelma Netscher, Nat Netscher, Myron William Jones and Marie Jones. Taken at the Lancaster Train Station the day Robert H. Jones left for the service during World War II.
Model Conestoga Wagon with horses made by Samuel Martzall. Information from back of photo: Model Conestoga Wagon - Amos S. Gingrich, the man who gave to the state the Conestoga wagon which is being brought to Landis Valley, was a well known hotel and livery stable operator who always wore a red rose in his buttonhole. Although he departed many years ago, he is still well remembered, as is his establishment, which was located in the third block of N. Queen Street. In 1932, Samuel Martzall of 213 S. Ann Street, one of Amos' nephews, carved and assembled a scale model of this Conestoga wagon, complete with driver and horses, using 2,200 pieces of wood for the job, and working ten hours a day for four months. Martzall, who died in 1951, turned out many original souvenirs. S. Nissley Gingrich, real estate and insurance man, now has this wagon replica on display at his office at 12 S. Duke St. His grandfather, Samuel Gingrich, who made the run regularly between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, sold his Conestoga wagon to William F. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill. The Conestoga wagon which is being brought here for display at the Pennsylvania Farm Museum was shown at the Centennial Expostition in Philadelphia back in 1876. It (the model) had been displayed in Watt & Shand's window at the Square. It is now in Bruce Gingrich's possession, Nissley's son.
