The Along the Conoy creep BY JACOB N. OLWEILER Editor's Note. As a correspondent of the old Lancaster Examiner, over thirty-two years ago, Mr. Olweiler wrote about the Conoy mills. This story, in practically the original form, was read by him before the Lancaster County Historical Society, April 10

): Industries. Water mills--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Conowingo Creek (Lancaster County, Pa.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1897-98 Description: [53]-63 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

prior to 1733, accord- ing to Rupp, not less than three mills were built nearby. They were Emanuel Herr's on the Pequea, Buckley's on the Octorora and William Smith's on Beaver Creek. William Smith's mill, or another unrecorded mill, possibly Martin Bear's, was driven by the present dam about 350 yards

fishing again. He never did—shortly after this episode he suffered a stroke and died. The Pequea The Pequea Creek rises in eastern Lancaster County and flows generally westward through southern Lancaster County to empty into the Susquehanna. It is a small stream and Dad and I had never seriously

AN OLD OIL MILL. At the foot of the western end of the "Mine Ridge," thereabouts better known as "Stony Hill," and in the northwest corner of Eden township, near the old Conowingo ore mines, and about half a mile east of Camargo, on a branch of Beaver creek, stands a large, quaint old stone

many other historic stones at the "Millstone Collec- tion" at Martic Forge, in Martic Township. There were many other mills devised for various purposes by the early settlers, such as hemp, cider, tannery, dye, pottery, clover, distillery, phosphate, buckwheat and many others, which can be found at the

. Until within a few years ago the gen- eral impression has been, and the idea is propagated even now, that paper making in America had its origin in the Ivy Mills on Chester Creek in Chester (now Dela- ware) county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1714, and that Thomas -Willcox was the first paper maker. This