conceived and well planned inter-county event. And as the official representative of The Lancaster County Historical Society, I cannot too strongly commend the Lancaster and York County Branches of the Colonial Dames of America for erecting this fine bronze tablet to commemorate the first important ferry

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

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Eliza Cameron Bradley, (born 1857), and Mary (born 1868) spend their lives on the properties which have been in the family for eighty years—the Donegal Springs mansion, and 407 North Front Street, Harrisburg. To visit these two sisters is to bring back the memories of days

Beck Family School by a Lititz liveryman to the Furnace Hills, the writer went th ere for chest- nuts, which were usually plentiful, and incidentally to be thrilled by the color- ful beauty of these hills as they rose against a clear blue October sky. On such trips to see, drawn by a pair of beautiful

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

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

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

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

school succeeded John Beck's Academy of Lititz, in which more than twenty-two hundred boys and young men were educated between 1815 and 1865.* Now one of the major pastimes in the Beck Family School was rifle shooting. It came down to the institution from Lancaster County's famous gun- smith, William