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Inn for Fertility, Wheatland Mills and Strasburg. Nor- man W. Waidley. From Fountain Inn for Willow Street, Smithville, Buck, Chestnut Level, Greene, Peter's Creek, Pleasant Grove, Fairmount, Mechanics' Grove, Lyle and Little Britain, in Pennsylvania; Rock Springs, Oakwood and Rowlands- ville, in

singular the land Within the Province of Pennsylvania lying to the Northward of Octorara Creek, and to the WestWard of a line of marked trees running from the North Branch of the said Octorara Creek Northeasterly to the River Schuylkill, be erected intO a county, named, and from henceforth to be called

northern Maryland and Chester and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania, known to geologists as the Ser- pentine Barrens. Its springs flow a few yards into a tributary of Carter's Run, which meets the Conowingo Creek about a half mile northwest of the Seven Springs rock. They are about a quarter of a mile west

the said Pequea Creek at a Corner of John Farrer's Land and extending thence by the same North North East fifteen perches to a Post and South by East thirty six perches to a Post and North North East eighty perches to a post and North seventy eight degrees East forty four perches to a black Oak thence

) level land, surrounded on all sides by higher mountains. The Big Conestoga Creek is near the city, and al- ways full of water, although it is too much intercepted by rocks to be navigable as far as the Susquehanna where this creek has its mouth. "The broad and long main street and the shorter one which

cleared for crops, and cattle and swine were being raised. There was good fishing in Pequea and Mill creeks. The black bear, the timber wolf and the cougar, for some time, were a menace to the hogpen and the sheepfold. In 1710 the Shawanese Indians, locally called Piquaws or Pequeas, lived at Pequehan

burial service for Nathaniel Ellmaker Hager. 1991. Insert 9 “An Old-Timer Recalls Memorable Dinner Down at Cross Creek,” by Cynthia Parks. Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Florida. Article is about an elite private club called Mensheviki. April 1991. Insert 10 “New book Highlights Decorating Trends