this particular portion of East Orange street, near Lime, has wrapped up in its history much that makes it one of the most interesting quarter blocks in our entire residential part of Lancaster. The Barton Gardens on the corner and the home of the Episcopalian Minister who was forced out of his

of whom served with honors and distinction in the war of 1812 in the U. S. Navy. They were all three captured aboard their ship during the war and taken to England and became for some time prisoners until after the war was over. �Archibald Steele, the Minute Man Poem by WILL F. McSPARRAN. Attuned to

rich in material for history and his- torical sketches to be covered within the scope of any one paper. Yet it is all so intimately connected, each with the other, as to be hard to separate and give anything like an intelligent story of its earliest settlement. How- ever, I am constrained by the circum

man, ready equipped to fulfill the duties of the service required; this truth applies to every stage of our history, and was never more forcefully illustrated than in the life story of the subject of this day's theme—Emanuel Carpenter; " Judge " familiarly and affectionately called " Manny, the law

. • THOMAS DICKEY was a clockmaker in Marietta, and later in Harris- burg. He is listed among the taxables in 1812-1814 (see Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 625). One of his clocks ran far afield; it was taken by wagon from Marietta to the Niagara frontier, New York State, in 1828, by

Strasburg. His grandfather was born in Switzerland in 1746, and came to the United States when a young man. His wife, whom he married in 1771, was Mary Rohrer, and they had nine children, and thus was founded the large and influential family of Bachmans located in and about Strasburg. CHRISTIAN EBY was an

- ing completion the finest and largest hydro-electric plant in this country if not in the world, and at the same time a magnificent concrete bridge and boulevard beautifully finished and lighted crossing the scenic Susquehanna at a height of one hundred and eight feet above the bed of the swift flowing

the town limits of "Charleston." This again tallies with the Ellis-Evans history which states at page 634, that "Charleston was laid out on the land north of the Charleston road on the east end of what had been the Chartier Tract." In one of Taylors Maps or Charts found at page 11 of Third Series of

seventy-five years, and as a rule they are in fair condition yet and liable to stand for a good many years before being replaced by concrete. With this much of a prelim- inary of the story of the Octoraro, I will now give you in particular a short sketch of each bridge and its surroundings as full as I