. He had a for- tunate combination of qualities: Religious zeal, business enterprise and energy, administrative judgment and leadership. We like to think of John Wright, who named the county, started its first great business enterprise, governed its people and took active measures against encroachments

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

house is the oldest building in Strasburg to- day. The Pfoutz family later, in 1754, settled in the Pfoutz Valley, Perry County.8 The lives of Charles and Martha Pfoutz Cameron were a continuous struggle against poverty. The tailor trade which Charles established at Maytown was not sufficiently

." Hambletonian was foaled in 1849 and died in 1876. 11 Henry White, a former employee at the Speedwell Farms. A ravine immediately south of the race-track plateau, where the common carcasses were thrown, is known as the Luderloch (Carrion Valley). 12 Historical Sketch of Rural Field Sports in Lancaster County by