West Lampeter Township of to-day, east and west about five miles.17 All of this tract was limestone country — Conestoga limestone. There seems to have been agricultural experience shown in its selection. These Mennonites from Switzerland were good farmers. Of the landowners within this 6,400 acres

penned with the view of exploding that idea, and at the same time to rescue the history of that celebrated animal from that oblivion to which modern inventions and recent innovations are rapidly consigning it. The name of "Conestoga" is derived from a river (to which the abor- iginal inhabitants had

, 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

main attraction for the guests. That was an age when springs, all pre- sumably of medicinal value, were the attractions of many summer resorts. The Lititz Springs attracted many to Lititz, in Warwick Township, where from about 1855 to 1895 the Lititz Springs Hotel was much used as a sum- mer resort