. • 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

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