Names, p. 17. Conowingo, corrupted from Guneunga, meaning "he stays long," Iroquois. (D. H. Landis.) Dekanoagah, or Conejoholo, Indian site near Washington Boro (D. H. Landis). Fishing Creek, in Delaware Indian language called Namees-hanna, "fish stream; or Naumeshauna. (D. H. Landis.) Gachswungarorachs

, in 1897. 7 This describes in detail the provisions for laying out the settlement and erecting a coun- ty. The tract was to be laid out along the east bank of the Susquehanna and to extend north as much as twelve miles from the mouth of the Conestoga Creek. If the land purchases exceeded 100, 000

Black Rock Forges & Rock Furnaces Albert W. Shertz The excavation in the streambed of the West Branch of the Octoraro Creek at Black Rock in 1967 for the piers of another bridge across the stream revealed evidence of some of the past iron history of Southern Lan- caster County. In the two

site of Marietta, Pa. Chesapeake, "the place where there is a great body of still water stretchedout."Or"superiorsaltishbay." Chikisalunga supposed to mean "place of crabs, or crab-fish," or "the creek on which the ground is full of holes made by the crab-fish." Or, "long piece of land where rabbits

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

the past forty years. The Chiques creek is one-third less now than it was then. As regards rainfall, he said it is always greater where there was timber, instancing the lower end of the county where it is one-third greater than it is in any other part of the county." —March 7, 1876 In a quiet and

1718, I have caused to be Surveyed the 30th day of May 1718, a Certain Tract of Land situate on Conestoga Creek, in the County of Chester, containing Three Hundred Acres with the allowance of Six per Cent unto Toris Ebys, bounded according to ye above Draught."2 Theodorus "Dorus" Eby, according to all

ground it required the presence of a boy to work the bolted stuff in the bolting apparatus. There once lived on Hammer Creek at a place known as Brubaker's Mill, a man by the name of Peter Stauffer. This Peter Stauffer had seven sons and the seventh son was the great grandfather of Jacob Stauffer, the

. where I was going and he'd come after me if we had a call. We were active in the Olivet Baptist Church on E. Chestnut Street. One time I was in charge of a church social excursion on the Lady Gay, a pleasure boat, down the Conestoga Creek to Peoples' Park. Cap Peoples had sold Rocky Springs Park to a

be- low and southeast of Conoy Creek running along the Susquehanna River about seven-eighths mile. It was about 210 acres in 1737 in his son George's name, but was about 500 acres when listed in Isaac's will of 1732. Perhaps his son sold part of it off by 1737. Originally, this land was in Donegal