The Bridgeport and Horseshoe Turnpike By HORACE R. BARNES, LL.D. "HORSE-SHOE ROAD" According to Ellis and Evans, "the old 'Horse-Shoe Road' was laid out in 1738," to meet the need of a road from Lancaster to the "Coventry Iron- Works" on French Creek, Chester County, "with a branch to Reading

. Schweitzer, Capt. H. M. M. Richards, Wirt Barnitz, Joseph Hergesheimer, Herman L. Collins, and Herbert H. Beck, president. This committee was a representative one as it included members of the Borough Council of Manheim, representatives from The Lancaster County Historical Society, and distinguished members

. On August 17th, 1789, however, a public meeting was held in Lancaster to consider ways and means of making the river and its tributaries more useful. As a result of this meet- ing, a convention was called for October 19th, 1789, to be held in the public- house of Archibald McCallister, located in

See "Reynolds Memorial," page 11, printed by J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1880. �of the duties committed to him he did much to improve the personnel and efficiency of the enlisted men of the navy; and in the discharge of all the duties devolving on him during a long career in the service

Eichholtz lies buried in Woodward Hill cemetery, Lancaster, Pa. Close by, lie other famous contributors to the development of our state and nation. President Buchanan, Governor Shulze, Henry E. Muhlenberg, first president of Franklin College and pioneer botanist; Edgar Fahs Smith, be- loved provost of the

the Declaration of Independence and the last three and Thomas Mifflin who were members of the Constitutional Convention Erected in celebration of the Joint Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States and the College by the Lancaster County Historical Society 1937 �"It is fitting that