story of our city and its citizens. �REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL TABLET The bronze tablet, 18 , by 12 inches, was informally unveiled on the east side of 215 East Orange Street, by Mayor Frank Musser and the President of the Society on "Capital Day"—September 27, 1927. It reads

Col. Archibald Steele By D. F. MAGEE, Esq., LANCASTER. PA. In Archibald Steele, the eldest son of Capt. William Steele, Drumore Town- ship furnished to the Continental Army one of the bravest and one of the most loyal defenders of his country's liberties that went forth from Pennsylvania. A giant

the battle for freedom and liberty of his country, which no doubt his wise vision clearly foresaw would come. Thus we find, while presiding as a Judge he became on July 9, 1774. a member of the committee from this county to protest against treatment of the people of Boston and the closing of that Port

river. It is located in the State of Mary- land, and connects the west shore of Cecil County with the eastern shore of Harford County, between nigh roll- ing wood clad hills on either side, and overlooking from its lofty heights a scene of beauty that Charles Emory Smith, the then famous Editor of the

Creek on the South. Consequently the Locust tree stood just eighty perches up the river bank from the mouth of. Mill Creek in a straight line. That mouth could not change in these hundreds of years for it flows to day into the river through rock bound hills on both sides. Jerry Trout, our Surveyor and

I. THE OLD WOODEN COVERED BRIDGES OF THE OCTORARO By D. F. Magee, Esq. When in about 1905 the engineering corps and the executive officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company selected the Octoraro Creek as the sole source of their supply of pure water for their engines in use on the eastern

solicitor for the company. Afterwards on the 27th of May, 1921, as solicitor for the company I presented the petition and had decree of dissolution entered of the charter which was granted by the State Legislature July 1, 1868, or about fifty-five years before. This railroad was unique and stood alone in

exposure, whether used in the masts and spars of our fleets of sailing ships of that day ; or as building lumber in millions of our houses, barns, bridges, mills and factories, the quality of the Pennsylvania white pine at that day has never been equalled since by any lumber grown in the east. This wood

of July Anno Domini 1781, personally appeared before me the Honorable Thomas McKean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania, Edward Shippen, Esquire, one of the subscribing witnesses to the Release or Instrument of writing indorsed on the back of the within written Deed and made Oath