conceived and well planned inter-county event. And as the official representative of The Lancaster County Historical Society, I cannot too strongly commend the Lancaster and York County Branches of the Colonial Dames of America for erecting this fine bronze tablet to commemorate the first important ferry

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected

Simon Cameron went into the iron business. With Thomas McNair and Samuel F. Headley he purchased the Columbia blast furnace and foundry at Foundryville, two miles north of Berwick, Pennsylvania. He also had an interest in the Nescopeck Forge, on the Nescopeck Creek near Berwick. 31 That was the period

, spread far and wide, and as a special designation that went with them they were called Conestoga horses, and the wagons were called Conestoga wagons, named after a creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where many large horses were bred. There was no particular line of blood to be followed, for a large

of all these early families, no sharp distinction can be made as to who built this building or that road. Dr. H. H. Beck gives his ver- sions on this in his papers on "Cannon Hill and the Hessian Ditch" Vol. XLIV, #2, 1940, Lancaster County Historical Society and "The Elizabeth Furnace Plantation

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

map showed them to be. The cellar was that of a house being built for Jacob Hertzler. It is a one and a half story frame building with a concrete block foundation. It stands on South Locust street, 300 yards from Main street. This house is the actual marker of the graveyard, 325 yards southwest of the

Henry E. Leman, Riflemaker By HERBERT H. BECK, Sc.D. RIFLE MADE BY HENRY E. LEMAN, AND PRESENTED BY HIM IN 1872 TO THE BECK FAMILY SCHOOL. Henry E. Leman is worthy of special record by the Lancaster County Historical Society. William U. Hensel, Frank R. Diffen- derffer and David F. Magee have

. Title: Henry E. Muhlenberg, botanist / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815. Botanists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928 Description: 99-107 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

successfully and proved very satisfactory. In Southern Lancaster County fox-hunting was the inevitable by-product of English settlement. Here it had more followers and a somewhat different setting and atmosphere from the sport in the continuously wooded and racially different Furnace Hills; but the spirit and