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

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

the Schuylkill to the Reading district, and still others at the same time were on their way up the Delaware River to the Lehigh region. Later on both of these districts, and others nearby became famous for their rifles, but all known facts point to Lancaster as the great early rifle center, as it was

bank of the Sus- quehanna River on the west, a little less than five and a half miles 5 of the historically, geographically and politically famous Mason and Dixon line. It is the shortest strip of this parallel of latitude against any of Pennsylvania's counties adjoining Maryland. The work on this line