, with 48 arches, 52 feet in width, and is a four-track structure. His assistant in the bridge construction, George Nauman, was also a Lancastrian. ENOS EllMAKER (1800-1885), born in Earl Township, Lancaster County, laid the first tulip or edge railingon the new Columbia and Philadelphia Rail- road in

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

, that he spent the prime of his life in Lancaster County and that he gave Pennsylvania two sons who followed closely in his footsteps. While he is also well known as an educator and a clergyman, I am concerned chiefly in his career as a scientist. We must admit that Frederick Valentine Melsheimer was

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

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

SUCCEEDED The price Lancaster would have had to pay, had Lee succeeded, is well shown in General Jubal Early's own report to his superior officer: " had determined, if I could get possession of the Columbia bridge, to cross my division over the Susquehanna, and capture the Pennsylvania Railroad, march upon

the ice on the Conestoga, which * For 1936, the city of Reading, Pa., reports an average daily consump- tion of 12,900,000 gallons. THE WATER SUPPLY OF LANCASTER 17 .was, at some points: upstream, frozen to the bottom. Such a con- dition was not known to have existed previously, but by noon time the

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

Lancaster County place name, it was given to the first packet built in Lancaster (and in fact in Pennsylvania) in 1828. This vessel was used on the Conestoga Navigation between Lancaster and Safe Harbor until 1833. There was a steamer, plying between New York City and Albany, called Robert Fulton, owned by

Church, and later both became members 14 Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania, Schmauk, p. 61. 15 See "Three Caspar Schaffners," Lancaster County Historical Society Papers, vol. 42, p. 181. �54 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ;::i l 2.05: ll , .s a<] C H E S "r- N V"T' M <'1 :1.J 0 I � 'I 2. I I I lo o :z