Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim

, as the country became developed. It is not known when the first horse-race was run in Lancaster borough and county? Information on the subject is quite meager; and most of the 1 In a paper entitled, "Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lan- caster County," written by Herbert H. Beck and

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

Elizabeth Furnace Plantation Herbert H. Beck Elizabeth Furnace Plantation, one of the historic and picturesque features of Pennsylvania, began with John Jacob Huber of Germany. In 1746 Huber acquired 400 acres of lands, with allowance of 18 acres for roads, then in Warwick Township, Lancaster

former favorite feeding grounds along the Muddy Creek. The Susquehanna in Lancaster County, for about one hundred and seventy- five years after the first white man entered the region, was perhaps the most famous ducking ground of Penn's domain. Before the culm came down from the coal mines to cover and

, Stiegel named the township for his wife. See the Names of the Townships, by Joseph H. Dubbs, Vol. I, No. 3, Lancaster County Historical Society. F. A. God- charles, in his Pennsylvania History, says the township was named for Queen Elizabeth. 2 The Horseshoe Pike, which was laid out from Downingtown to

ownership is recorded in Philadelphia in Deed Book D, Vol. 2, Page 9; and an admirable map of the Martin Bear tract was placed by H. Frank Eshleman in the pamphlet of the Lancaster �County Historical Society, January, 1924. This map shows that the Martin Bear tract extended north to a point where its

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best