, "Haldeman, Grubb and Company," to serve as an operating company.136 Conestoga Furnace Conestoga Furnace was built in 1846 as a charcoal furnace near the Conestoga Slackwater Navigation at the foot of South Prince Street in Lancaster. George Ford, an enterprising Lancaster attorney, and Robert and James

the mill to the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad tracks along the east bank of the Conestoga River." From 1879, when it was re-opened, until 1883, the rolling mill produced thousands of tons of muck bar for the Phoenix Iron Company." The rolls turned out their last wrought iron during the first week

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gone the way of twelve-course dinners. Indeed, everything about Clio would appear anachro- nistic. Fortunately, as with many human efforts and institutions in Lancaster, appearances are deceiving. Clio is a remarkably youthful and peppery old lady at the age of one hundred. Probably she is healthier

, Earl, Warwick, Manheim, Hempfield, Conestoga, Martock (Martic), Drumore, Sadsbury, Laycock (Leacock), Lampeter, Salisbury, Donegal, Lancaster, and Caernarvon. Each township was described, giving its boundaries. After this was presented a list of the townships with three additional townships entered in

, St. Paul's, 1911 51. Columbia, St. James's, 1920 52. Lancaster, St. Matthew's, 1947 53. Lancaster, (East Hempfield Twp.), Holy Spirit (derived from Trinity of Rohrerstown), 1959 54. Lancaster (Manheim Twp.), Good Shepherd (merger of Advent and St. Mark's congregations), 1971 N. B. Historians use

frequently went criminal hunting as a team. An example of this cooperation was reported in a York newspaper during the 1890's. Detective Edward Barnholt of Lancaster and Constable William Wittick of Columbia were in the city (York) the latter part of last week. They came up North George Street to the

-five acres. A draft or plot of the said tract is hereto annexed, and, from the same, it will be seen that the tract has very great natural advantages for such a site. It is a com- manding elevation, overlooking the surrounding country, and at its base flows the Big Conestoga Creek, a stream remarkable

north (320 perches), one mile south, one mile east, and one mile west from the courthouse in the Square. The early surveyors "raked" the two-mile square three degrees to the west, resulting in Queen Street being three degrees off perpendicular. The two-mile square divided Lancaster Township and cut off

Chikiswalungo Creek which it follows to the confluence of the Big and Little Chikiswalungo creeks. Lancaster, Pennsylvania JOhN WARD WILlSON LOOSE �