Middletown, named for a town in Orange County, New York, was buried in an honored place in the center of the race-track oval, 11 which was on a plateau east of the great barn. The breeding of standard bred horses was discontinued at Speedwell in 1896 when the last sale was held. The stables had been built by

RockSpringsand Surrounding By HERBERT H. BEM Rock Springs and Indian Bowls Rock Springs, in southern Fulton Township, Lancaster County, are prob- ably unique in America. It is doubtful if their combination of extraordinary geological and archaeological characters exists anywhere else. As one of the

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

just as the beneficent springhead determines the site of the Indian village and the place for the pioneer's log cabin, so the fall of the stream bed and the face of the hillside determine the position of that prime necessity of fresh settlement—the grist mill. Thus established by natural conditions the

desiring to become an Inhabitant in the new Town or village called Lititz situate in the Township of War- wick in the County of Lancaster in the Province of Pennsylvania, must agree strictly to observe & adhere to, viz : 1. Forasmuch as the fundamental Plan & original Design of building the Congregation

was dismantled, its cavity being filled with rocks torn from its top and sides. Christian Myers died in Philadelphia on October 6, 1877. His age was eighty-one years. His name is enrolled in the Capitol at Harrisburg as a representative citizen of Clarion County. His wife (born Martha Henaberger of

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

rifle.13 �There was no similar area in North America of that century with a list one-third as long as that of the Conestoga Valley. No county in America contributed more to the progressive development of the American colonies and the newly-formed repub- lic than did Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It

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