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

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

- 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

proposition did not mature for some six or seven years afterwards; its consideration having been arrested by the breaking out of the Civil War and for the time it was well nigh forgotten. This proposition was a big and ambitious one and was no less than a great trunk line with its starting point in Wilmington

altogether in about 1890, after which the sight of a raft or ark passing below Marietta was a great rarity. The period of its great prosperity was from 1790 to 1870 and it lasted entirely just about 100 years. The story of it is interesting and rather a romantic one. Its pursuit called into action a class of

., and other land marks of a similar nature, lakes and rivers and streams. �This Deed was the resultant fruit of a Treaty held at Fort Stanwix and embodied in its recitals the conclusions reached by said Treaty. It will be noted it was made and executed some six years after the United States or Colonies