used as a tollhouse for $202.00, and sundry other items such as coal house, table, wheelbarrow, etc., for $53.60. This balance was used to pay the dissolution and other expenses which had accrued. Thus we mark the passing of another toll road in historic Lancaster County. The stretch of approximately

, brought greetings on behalf of his society. He referred to the "many noteworthy actors and citizens like Henry William Stiegel, Robert Fulton, Benjamin West, George Ross and Edward Shippen," which Lancaster has given to the country. He also stated that "Baron" Stiegel was interred in Berks county, and

ORGANIZATION AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE CONESTOGA NAVIGATION COMPANY By PROFESSOR HORACE R. BARNES The possible effect upon Lancaster and other cities and towns lying in the great valley of Pennsylvania, had the Susquehanna been a navigable river, has frequently been the topic of idle speculation

grant and two thousand by purchase,—which she divided among the settlers. It is recorded that her grandson was the first white child born in the Pequea Valley. Lydia Moore Reynolds, the mother of Admiral Reynolds, traced her an- cestry to the Protestant Irish, who early settled in Lancaster county

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

The Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Joint Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States and Franklin College By DR. HORACE R. BARNES The four days, October 14 to 17 inclusive, will go down in the history of Lancaster County as one of the outstanding periods in the long and