William Henry's home. For a brief biography of Col. Henry, the reader is referred to Vol. 11, pp. 303-27, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society. �Bronze tablet erected July 17th, 1931, on the building at No. 47-49 South Queen street, Lancaster, by The Lancaster County Historical

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

Simon Cameron's brothers and sisters, was his younger brother James, who also had been born at Maytown. In 1829 he married Rebecca Leman, sister of Lancaster's famous gunsmith, Henry E. Leman. The same year James Cam- eron became owner and editor of the Lancaster Sentinel, and for some years he took an

horseshoes. which often carried many horseshoes to the mile. Whence the name Horse- shoe Pike." Phares E. Will, as the writer remembers him, had a wide and apparently accurate knowledge of the technical lore of northern Lancaster County. His blacksmith shop at Penryn was on the historic Newport road. 3 Henry

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

only part of the Eliz- abeth furnace system there today is the arched tunnel which acted as a tail race for the spill water from the wheel. The only lingering memory of the furnace in action is that of Abraham R. Beck (1833-1928), who as a boy, in the 1840's, spent a night in one of the southern rooms

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