original townships of Lancaster County,Hempfieldwasastoplayamajorroleinthehistoryofthecounty. Hempfield originally extended from the Susquehanna River eastward to the Little Conestoga River, and included all the land above the confluence of those two rivers northward to the Big Chiquesalunga Creek and Old

supplied with ample transportation in the nineteenth century. The Pennsylvania Canal was along the river south to Columbia. The State Works Railroad, opened in 1834, now the Penn- sylvania, crossed the lower portion of the township. The Harrisburg, Ports- mouth, Mountjoy and Lancaster Railroad, now part of

1749. Entire extent of Lancaster County during that period is shown in insert map. county-seat, purchasees selected John Postlethwait's Tavern as the site for the first court house of Lancaster County. Located in Con- estoga Township, near Rockville and close to the Little Conestoga Creek

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