manu- facturing places. Probably the oldest was at the mouth of the Little Conestoga creek ; backwater from the building of the Slackwater navigation in 1827 ruined this. The next was the Shenk mill, on the Pequea, on the road between Coues- toga and Marticville. This was replaced ( alter a fire) by a

A FULLING MILL IN 1714. In 1716 Stephen Atkinson, to whom lib- erty had been granted about two years before to settle on a neck of land between Edmund Cartlidge and the Conestoga Creek and to build a mill and make a dam, and he having built a good fulling mill a warrant was made out for the neck of

fishing parties are in evidence to catch the g amey bass, with which the stream was stocked twenty years ago. This was the hunting ground of that famed trio of Nimrods,Prof. Hall, of Lan- caster ; George Pownall and William H. Sproul, of Christiana, and woe betide the unlucky grouse, quail, rabbit or

Ships may best ride of deep- est draugt of water if possible to Load, or unload at Ye Bank, orKeyside with- �out boating or litering of it. It would do well if the River coming into Yt Creek be Navigable, at least for Boats up into Ye Country, and Yt the Situa- tion be high, at least dry and sound, and