Furnace." The road commenced "at a hickory tree standing in the Lancaster High Road, at Benjamin Witmer's, Sr., Lane (about one mile east of `Wittmer's Bridge,') thence in a northeasterly direction 254 perches to a line in Benjamin Wittmer's, Jr. land, thence 590 perches to Jacob Heller's land (Heller's

. Schweitzer, Capt. H. M. M. Richards, Wirt Barnitz, Joseph Hergesheimer, Herman L. Collins, and Herbert H. Beck, president. This committee was a representative one as it included members of the Borough Council of Manheim, representatives from The Lancaster County Historical Society, and distinguished members

," Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. �TABLE III reveals some valuable recent comparisons concerning the economic value of the crop to Lancaster County. TABLE III - IMPORTANCE OF TOBACCO CULTURE IN LANCASTER COUNTY. TOBACCO ESTIMATED ACREAGE, PRODUCTION AND VALUE IN PENNSYLVANIA. 1° Year Acreage Yield

indebted to a number of persons and sources for aid in gathering the material for this study. Mr. M. Luther �Heisey and Miss Elizabeth C. Kieffer, of the Lancaster County Historical Society, have been especially helpful, Miss Kieffer secur- ing the interesting facts from the account books and minutes of

. Diffenderffer, Vol. 9, No. 5. "Hemp and Hop Growing in Lancaster in 1775," James Wright, Vol. 9, No. 9. "Our Last Fulling Mill," F. R. Diffenderffer, Vol. 10, p. 295. 18 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XI, p. 360; The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1916. �The Meaning of Lancaster

, George Louis Mayer and 1 See Minute Book of the Conestoga Navigation Company, in the Library of The Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 2 Ibid. Page 1. �Hugh Maxwell, of the city of Lancaster, and John Lintner and George Haver- stick, of the county of Lancaster, "or any two of

REAR ADMIRIAL WILLIAM REYNOLDS A DISTINGUISHED LANCASTRIAN. 1815-1879 By PROFESSOR HORACE R. BARNES William Reynolds, son of John and Lydia Moore Reynolds, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 10th, 1815. The characteristics which marked the lives of both Admiral William Reynolds and his

College. Each October for many years, the Lancaster County Historical Society has been marking some of the many points of real historical interest in this locality. Throughout various sections of Lancaster County, beautiful bronze tablets carry historical messages, and designate for succeeding generations