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

Summer Hill, one over the Juniata River at Tyrone, and several in New York State. Mr. Goll died Sunday, February 15, 1891, and the contracting work was 3 For further information concerning the Ellmakers, see the Pennsylvania German magazine, Vol. 10, p. 345. �carried on by his sons, John A., William H

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

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

1807, before the use of steam, another Lancaster County inventive genius was working on the problem of better navigation. One Daniel Keller, of Hemp- field Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took out a patent as early as 1795 for a design of boat, operating with paddle wheels, whose motive power

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

the Post Office in King's Street." (See fac-simile on page 4.) In 1756, the Pennsylvania Gazette advertised a list of unclaimed letters for Lancaster County folks held "at the post office in Lancaster." Previously, 1738 and 1741, the lists of letters were held at Philadelphia. Post roads were few in

Locomotives—Made in Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY As stated in the constitution of this Society, its object is, among other ramifications, to mark the growth and progress of population, wealth, educa- tion, agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce in the city and county. "Peace hath her

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

in Lancaster County, where on the 13th day of May I preached the first sermon. On June 3rd, 1779 I was married to Maria Agnes Man. The birthplace of my wife was Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her father's name was Samuel Man and her mother's name Anna Catharina. "November 12th, 1784, I removed to Manheim