Brethren's Church or Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church) . He came to Pennsylvania in 1741, preached at Germantown for some time, established congregations at Beth- lehem, Nazareth and Lititz, promoted Christian communistic set- tlements, and preached at different points in Lancaster County, Pa. Zinzendorf

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

Lancaster, April 5, 1858. Leaving school when thirteen years of age, he started at the bottom round as water boy in 1871, and kept climbing until 1898 when he retired as a successful railroad contractor. From 1884 to 1889 he was master stonemason for the Frederick Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return

proprietary med- icine on which the tax was required to be paid. Here is the interesting story of the men, the medicine and the stamps they used. BENJAMIN MISHLER was born in Reamstown, Pennsylvania, sixteen miles northeast of Lancaster on the Reading Pike. He first saw the light of day on August 12, 1814

, ·but ,remained silent about the repentant Shawne·e. See Conrad Weiser to Secretary Peters, 4 August 1748, Clement Z. Weiser, The Life of John Conrad Weiser (Reading, 1876), 168; and Walton, Conrad Weiser, 32, 126. •• GeoTge P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania A History (New York, 1926), II, 637. •• Voiwiler

walls of this dining room. The Lancaster was built in the days of "wooden ships and iron men," and served well her country for fifty-seven years. On February 10, 1948, the battleship Pennsylvania, of 33,000 tons, flagship of the U. S. fleet, dear to all hearts in this Commonwealth, was scuttled near

traffic noises, the assembly repaired to the high school auditorium, where the full program was followed. In presenting the tablet to the borough of New Holland, Dr. Beck, for the Lancaster County Historical Society, declared, "We have been the first to commemorate, honor, revive and perpetuate the memory

here we have the germ of an idea, even as Fulton's, which was a forward step in transportation progress. With a seeming touch of pride, Daniel Keller usually gave his address as "of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," but this land- lubber, this builder of ships and arks, was quite a gadabout, traveling

first great highway from the coastal cities. Naturally, Lancaster was among the first towns to secure postal facilities. In this section the first and nearest available postal facilities were in far-off Philadelphia, at which point letters for settlers in the "back country" �The Pennsylvania Gazette of