, 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

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

Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim

in the mass of material in the Lititz Moravian Archives a map indistinctly showing the site had been overlooked. On John Rickert's map of Lititz, 1843, the words "Graveyard of the Revolution" are almost illegible. Rickert showed the place to be about 500 yards directly east of the older portion of

incidentally mentioned him in their papers on Lancaster County's gunsmiths,* but none of these authors has given him the space his national fame deserves. More than any of a long line of expert craftsmen, who won for Lancaster County the honored title of "Birthplace of the American Rifle

, which was first descriptively reported by Alexander Wilson. Of the 1,400 recognized plants of Lancaster County, as listed in the Flora of Lancaster County—an excellent treatise by Small and Carter—sixty-one were discovered and named by Muhlenberg; while in the Flora of North America by Britton and Brown

former favorite feeding grounds along the Muddy Creek. The Susquehanna in Lancaster County, for about one hundred and seventy- five years after the first white man entered the region, was perhaps the most famous ducking ground of Penn's domain. Before the culm came down from the coal mines to cover and

, as the country became developed. It is not known when the first horse-race was run in Lancaster borough and county? Information on the subject is quite meager; and most of the 1 In a paper entitled, "Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lan- caster County," written by Herbert H. Beck and

." (Most visitors to early Lancaster over- estimated its population. The first official census of the United States, 1790, credited the town with 3773.) "The country round here is esteemed the most fertile in Pennsylvania for grain. The most material want experienced at Lancaster is that of a river— though