site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

, 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

have sprung from a crossing or mixture of various breeds or families into which the horse family is at present divided. There is, however, one distinguishing characteristic in the history of this animal that has been but slightly adverted to, which deserves, perhaps, a more extended notice; and that is

ten plate stove with four inside plates, the first cooking stove, marked "H. W. Stiegel Elizabeth Furnace 1769." EXPLANATION CONCERNING MAP Considerable has been written about the history and life of the people who lived on the Elizabeth Furnace Plantation at its beginning. Apparently no attempt has

: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, the makers of Lancaster County, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history of their descendants; to go beyond this would make the length of the paper far beyond the limits allowed by our rules. It may be a

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

of War, Simon Cameron, offered him a contract for 250,000 rifles. He declined this because he could not see how the hurried and expensive enlargement of his factories was justified by the uncertainty of the continuance of the war. However, he did take a contract at this time to alter old flintlocks

I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the