fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

great inland peninsula between the Delaware and Susquehanna is brought before The Lancaster County Historical Society. Herrman's map of the Lower Susquehanna Valley was pub- lished with a paper entitled "The Location of the Susquehanna Fort" by D. H. Landis, in Vol. XIV, pp. 81-117, of the Proceed- ings

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

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

county where its maker became famous, the author takes this means of qualifying to write on his subject, and also of adding a few facts of historical interest. The writer was born in the Beck Family School at Lititz, which was conducted by his father, Abraham R. Beck (1833-1928) from 1865 until 1895. The

of the best in the United States, and the view of the surrounding country is unsurpassed by any in the world." These records show that horse-racing in harness had not been introduced into Lancaster county prior to 1830. In fact, the trotter and pacer did not come into their own, as a distinctively

considerable business from the county with its shops, which formed a quadrangle in the rear of the main building, and in which the trades of weaver, baker, nailsmith, hatter, chandler, carpenter, butcher, tailor and shoemaker were carried on. The Brethren's House also conducted a wool carding mill on Carter's