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

AUGUSTINE HERRMAN, LANCASTER COUNTY'S FIRST MAP MAKER By HERBERT H. BECK A UGUSTINE HERRMAN was one of the leading figures of the lower Susquehanna Valley in the seventeenth century. He was the first man to chart this part of Eastern North America. He named Cecil County, Maryland, which adjoins

course at the two taverns conducted by John Bender and John Sheaffer on the Horseshoe road in Earl township, Lancaster county. The race, three mile heats and repeat, was open to any horse, mare or gelding seven years of age and under. On the following day, a race of two mile heats and repeat, for a purse

the Big Swamp of Clay Township, was a famous local sport diminishingly up to 1900. In the seventies and eighties parties from Lebanon, Berks and Lancaster Counties, as related by the older sportsmen, would sometimes foregather in the twilight of the Big Swamp at the end of the opening day in July, to

THE MEETING OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN LANCASTER By Herbert H. Beck The Sesqui Centennial of the most notable part Lancaster has taken in national affairs is September 27. On that date 1777 the Continental Congress met in the Lancaster Courthouse, which stood in the center of Penn Square

Furniture Store, all of Lancaster, are owners of Davis clocks.—M. L. H. • CHRISTIAN HUBER was a clockmaker of Cocalico Township. He died in 1789, leaving a wife, Barbara, who was the daughter of Martin Martin. His will stipulates, "I do request my father-in-law, Martin Martin, to go to Gorgas's and have a