fine clocks, in number somewhat over one hun- dred, and they made some four or five that struck the quarter hour with the chime, which feature is rather unique in the grandfather clocks, though a few others of this type are known to have been made by other of our Lancaster makers. * JACOB GORGAS, of

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

Cannon Hill and the Hessian Ditch With Personal Reminiscences of the Furnace Hills By HERBERT H. BECK Cannon Hill, in northern Elizabeth Township, 1 is one of the hills in the red sandstone range which extends along the border line between Lancaster and Lebanon counties. All of this country

Saturday, November 14th, 1801, contained the following: "A set of complete quarter races, of considerable consequence, will be commenced on Saturday next, the 21st instant, at Wallace's lane, on the Horse- shoe road, ten miles from Lancaster and two miles from New Holland. All honest sportsmen are invited

THE STORY OF SH ULTZ'S MILL ON BEAVER CREEK By Herbert H. Beck The artificial structure of an inhabited region like Lancaster County is primarily determined by its natural topography and its drainage—by surface conditions chiseled out by the geological hand of long past centuries. Thus it is that

That riflemaking was an essential industry in Lancaster in 1776 is indicated by : "Jan. 29, 1776. We have prevailed upon Capt. Hubley to permit the Gunsmiths' apprentices, whom he had enlisted, to return and work with their masters. . . . The gun- smiths assure us that if their apprentices who are

Henry E. Leman, Riflemaker By HERBERT H. BECK, Sc.D. RIFLE MADE BY HENRY E. LEMAN, AND PRESENTED BY HIM IN 1872 TO THE BECK FAMILY SCHOOL. Henry E. Leman is worthy of special record by the Lancaster County Historical Society. William U. Hensel, Frank R. Diffen- derffer and David F. Magee have

northern Maryland and Chester and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania, known to geologists as the Ser- pentine Barrens. Its springs flow a few yards into a tributary of Carter's Run, which meets the Conowingo Creek about a half mile northwest of the Seven Springs rock. They are about a quarter of a mile west