site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

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

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Eliza Cameron Bradley, (born 1857), and Mary (born 1868) spend their lives on the properties which have been in the family for eighty years—the Donegal Springs mansion, and 407 North Front Street, Harrisburg. To visit these two sisters is to bring back the memories of days

part of Lancaster County. Germane to this, 13 Arthur C. Bining. �in sight range and history, the writer could see the former famous landmark of southern Lancaster County, the Nickel Mine stack on Mine Ridge in Bart Township, twenty-three miles in direct line from where he stood on Cannon Hill. Truly

article is taken is owned by Calvin Eshelman, of Martic Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and will be three years old next July, is 16 hands high, and weighs 1,350 pounds. His color is black, and he is a very good specimen of the Conestoga Horse. 8—From the Report of the United States Department

and charred, the enduring charcoal remains in the soil. �Tenant house near Elizabeth Furnace mansion. Built about 1757. The Colemans Robert Coleman, a man destined to become the Andrew Carnegie of early Pennsylvania, came to Elizabeth in 1776. He was born November 4th, 1748, at Castle Finn, County

could but read in its face the scenes that passed before it! The grandfathers' clocks, as we have them today, began first to take form in the countries beyond the sea, about one hundred years before they were made in Lancaster County. The clock that is run by a weight and gov- erned by a pendulum is not

north wall cut through the center of another trench. In a cess-pool excavation im- mediately northeast of the building, the bones of three individuals were found. Of the 110 buried thereabouts the remains of about twenty were uncovered. The remainder lie to the north, northeast and east of the house

1846, were fought with these crude and uncertain igniters. There is a curious chronological turn of Fate in the fact that certain and precise ignition of gunpowder was first used in warfare exactly five hundred years after men be- gan killing each other with the explosive mixture. Mercuric ful- minate

generations to come. To the old-time sportsman of the 1870 period the cottontail was little more than a nuisance; a trying temptation for the green setter afield and an unwelcome weight abag. Fox-hunting flourished as the rural sport supreme in Lancaster County for a hundred years and more. It began probably