of this river long before Wash- ington was born, and which he must have thought of as home. "The name 'Conoy' is inseparably connected with our county, and it is interesting to note, in speaking of 'Peter's Road,' that westward across the Susquehanna from the Indian town ran a road linking up with

the James H. Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was erected on that part of the venerable building now owned and occupied by The Lan- caster County Historical Society. The exercises incident to the unveiling of the tablet, were in charge of Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County

leadership of David Zeisberger in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and that part of Ontario along Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. For sixty-two of his eighty-eight years Zeis- berger labored under most extraordinary difficulties with the In- �dians, especially those west of the Allegheny Mountains

, brought greetings on behalf of his society. He referred to the "many noteworthy actors and citizens like Henry William Stiegel, Robert Fulton, Benjamin West, George Ross and Edward Shippen," which Lancaster has given to the country. He also stated that "Baron" Stiegel was interred in Berks county, and

Indian Art And Relics On March 4 the Lancaster County Historical Society was ad- dressed by Gerald B. Fenstermaker, editor of the "National Ar- chaeological News," and well-known local archaeologist, who spoke about Indian Art and Craft. The lecture was illustrated with many lantern slides, and

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's