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

Scotch father and a German mother, was born March 8, 1799. His start in the world in a log house was similar to that of the man with whom he was to come to fame, Abraham Lincoln. Near the end of his long life this little Maytown boy said to a friend, "Yes, my son Don has had many advantages, but I had

at its south- 14 Mumbert's History of Lancaster County. 15 Jacob Douple. �western base.16 It is called, even today by a few of the older foxhunters and woodchoppers of the region, by its common name of a century ago, which was the Stick Barrich. Stuck, in high German, is a cannon or piece of

of which is still there, was on Furnace Run, about 700 yards below the furnace. The original Elizabeth was a typical Iron Plantation with all its sup- porting industries and farms, a community in itself. �In this typical 18th century iron plantation Stiegel and his partners conducted a successful

touches the dearest traditions of our old county's social life and surroundings. These old clocks, first bought and used by the forefathers of many of us, have stood for a century or more in hundreds of our homes, faithfully and tirelessly marking the flight of time, in annual succession for four genera

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

to stamp the barrels and locks of his pieces—H. E. Leman, Lancaster, Pa. Most of our other makers, if they marked their guns at all, and many of them did not, used their names only, without their town. Leman was an advertiser of his rifles and of Lancaster. Thus properly identified, Leman rifles are

limited extent, in Maryland and Virginia as early as the middle of the seventeenth century, particularly in the latter colony. Many of the early settlers in these colonies were of the class which in England made the breeding and care of high-mettled horses one of their delights; or were descended from