THE EPHRATA PAPER MILL. A paper was read a short time ago be- fore the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania upon the subject of paper making and the different water marks used by the Willcox family, whose history the learned speaker traced through the several gen- erations down to the present time

StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate

Public Ephrata Borough With Interesting Sidelights By IRA S. FRANCK Ephrata began its life as a municipality in 1891 and with its advent as a borough began at once its two principal chronic headaches, "light" and "water." Prior to the incorporation the Ephrata Water Company 1 had attempted in a

Philadelphia. The care of the sick and wounded at points remote from the scene of battle or campaign resulted in the selection of the Cloister at Ephrata as one place where the commander-in- chief was certain those needing hospitalization would be tenderly cared for by the pious brethren and sisters of the

Visit by the Provost Magister, Israel Acrelius' to the Ephrata Cloister, August 20, 1753 Taken from "A History of New Sweden," by Israel Acrelius. Published in Stockholm 1759. Reprinted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1874. Translated from the Swedish by William M. Reynolds, D.D. Ephrata

THE ORIGINAL "TURTLE TAUBE" OF THE EPHRATA CLOISTERS The original manuscript of the "Turtle Taube" one of the most treasured documents in the world, written by the brethren in the Ephrata Cloisters more than a century and a half ago, has been turned over to the Congressional Library in Washington

Ephrata Hymns and Hymn- Books. The early history of Ephrata in this county has been so frequently discuss- ed that to present an additional paper on the same general subject may ap- pear like "carrying coals to New- castle." I can well remember the time when the theme was regarded as peculiarly

SANGMEISTER, THE EPHRATA CHRONICLER The Ephrata Cloister has, for well- nigh 200 years, been a subject of per- ennial interest in American life; its fame has spread beyond our shores, and attracted the attention of even the scholars of historic Europe. It has made Lancaster county the Mec- ca of

THE EPHRATA COMMUNITY 120 YEARS AGO. INTRODUCTORY.. No portion of Lancaster county sur- passes, and few equal, in interest the settlement of the Seventh Day Bap- tists on the Cocalico, at Ephrata. That religious community differed so greatly from all the others established within the borders of

farmer named Noah Burkholder decided to start a car repair business. His farm was about one mile north of Ephrata, east of what is now Route 272, then the main highway between Lancaster and Reading. The sect he belonged to allowed automobiles and he was handy with them. The traffic passing his place