site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

AUGUSTINE HERRMAN, LANCASTER COUNTY'S FIRST MAP MAKER By HERBERT H. BECK A UGUSTINE HERRMAN was one of the leading figures of the lower Susquehanna Valley in the seventeenth century. He was the first man to chart this part of Eastern North America. He named Cecil County, Maryland, which adjoins

purchased the John Harris mansion, 210 South Front Street, Harrisburg, built between 1764 and 1766 by the second John Harris, and now the house of the Dauphin County Historical Society. 49 This was his Harrisburg home the rest of his life. In 1872 he returned to Donegal, Lancaster County, the land of his

part of Lancaster County. Germane to this, 13 Arthur C. Bining. �in sight range and history, the writer could see the former famous landmark of southern Lancaster County, the Nickel Mine stack on Mine Ridge in Bart Township, twenty-three miles in direct line from where he stood on Cannon Hill. Truly

Lancaster County are inseparably connected in historical records. Unlike the Conestoga wagon, which was known under that name as early as 1750,1 and whose fame still lives in history and in actual form in museums, the Conestoga horse—a thing of flesh—was not preserved and is now nearly forgotten. The

Elizabeth Furnace Plantation Herbert H. Beck Elizabeth Furnace Plantation, one of the historic and picturesque features of Pennsylvania, began with John Jacob Huber of Germany. In 1746 Huber acquired 400 acres of lands, with allowance of 18 acres for roads, then in Warwick Township, Lancaster

families in Lancaster and adjoining counties. A number of the clocks are in the possession of the descendants of the Gorgas family. Among members of the family who have such clocks are Harry S. Gorgas of Garden City, N. Y., William S. Pilling of Germantown, Pa., Mrs. Mary Embree Thompson of Germantown, Pa

map showed them to be. The cellar was that of a house being built for Jacob Hertzler. It is a one and a half story frame building with a concrete block foundation. It stands on South Locust street, 300 yards from Main street. This house is the actual marker of the graveyard, 325 yards southwest of the