Greene, than that he had two foxhounds, Music and Vulcan. To me, personally, this part of Hempfield township is the most picturesque and colorful, and, in many ways, the most important historical region in Lancaster county. It is that, chiefly, because it was the home of John Wright and his ferry

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected

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

Lancaster from Philadelphia. The black squirrel was a dark phase of the gray. The stump ear gray squirrels were a variety of the fox squirrel.46 42 Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. S. N. Rhoads. 43 Ibid. 44 Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lancaster County. 45 Historical Sketch of the Three

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

had lived in the town all of his life, did not know the exact site of the graveyard; nor did anyone else. It was only known that of the 120 privates and non-commissioned officers of the Continental army who died in the Brethren's House between Dec. 19, 1777, and Aug. 28, 1778, 110 had been buried