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

with other Czechs fled with them, the father, mother, Augustine and three sisters took refuge about Zittau in Saxony. Augustine seems to have been the baby of this exiled family. Though recorded elsewhere as having been born in 1605, Herrman in his will, written in 1684, gives his age as sixty-three

his two sons, Simon and John, and their wives (McKenzie sisters), came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 1775. They are reported to have been on the same ship with Colin McFarquhar, who was headed toward his pastorate at the Donegal Church, Lancaster County.3 They had been farmers in Scotland

Hills from about 1740 to about 1895. The Cornwall Furnace used charcoal until it went out of blast in 1883. (Cornwall Records, Edward M. Patton). After the decline of the local furnaces some charcoal was still made for blacksmiths and tin- smiths. Recently published accounts of Pennsylvania Iron

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

ten plate stove with four inside plates, the first cooking stove, marked "H. W. Stiegel Elizabeth Furnace 1769." EXPLANATION CONCERNING MAP Considerable has been written about the history and life of the people who lived on the Elizabeth Furnace Plantation at its beginning. Apparently no attempt has

later paper will deal with the history of many individual clocks, and the story of the famililes that have had them for generations, as I have uncovered many very interesting facts along these lines that would make good material for an historical paper. HOFFS—Among the clockmakers of Lancaster City who

north wall cut through the center of another trench. In a cess-pool excavation im- mediately northeast of the building, the bones of three individuals were found. Of the 110 buried thereabouts the remains of about twenty were uncovered. The remainder lie to the north, northeast and east of the house