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

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

and of commanding appearance. His eyes were blue; his hair brown in early life. For many years his hair was snowy white while his face was fair and ruddy with the glow of health. He was ill but one week in his entire life." Of the thirty-one furnaces once flourishing here, Washington furnace alone

Lancaster from Philadelphia. The black squirrel was a dark phase of the gray. The stump ear gray squirrels were a variety of the fox squirrel.46 42 Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. S. N. Rhoads. 43 Ibid. 44 Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lancaster County. 45 Historical Sketch of the Three

Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: Historical sketch of rural field sports in Lancaster County / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Hunting--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1923 Description: 149-160 p. ; 23 cm. Series

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

The Conestoga Horse By JOHN STROHM (1793-1884) AND HERBERT H. BECK. The Conestoga horse and the Conestoga wagon were evolved in and about that part of southeastern Pennsylvania which, before it was named Lancaster County, was known as Conestoga. The region was named for a river that has its main

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