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

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

, of Lancaster County, which was incorporated in 1851.32 Its mines, now a quarry hole known as Lake Grubb, were in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Official recognition of Simon Cameron by Washington, D.C., came in 1838 when President Van Buren (in whose political inter- ests

, Stiegel named the township for his wife. See the Names of the Townships, by Joseph H. Dubbs, Vol. I, No. 3, Lancaster County Historical Society. F. A. God- charles, in his Pennsylvania History, says the township was named for Queen Elizabeth. 2 The Horseshoe Pike, which was laid out from Downingtown to

article is taken is owned by Calvin Eshelman, of Martic Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and will be three years old next July, is 16 hands high, and weighs 1,350 pounds. His color is black, and he is a very good specimen of the Conestoga Horse. 8—From the Report of the United States Department

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