stream abound- ed in fish of many kinds. Shad, her- ring and salmon ran up the Conestoga and its tributaries, Mill Creek, the Little Conestoga, Cocalico and Muddy Creek, supplying the people in the in- terior part of the county with an abundance of this excellent fish. But when mills came along, dams

fur had been a leading article of barter and trade with the Indians for many years earlier and as the animals were easily caught they were soon exterminated. Beaver Creek and Beaver Meadow (now the Big Swamp) in Clay Township are doubtless names reminiscent of a very early period, for it is unlikely

been my lot to encounter the name in manuscript and in print anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 times, more nearly the latter than the former, perhaps, and only about once in a thousand times is it even by accident called a river. It is the Conestoga "Creek" to most of our people, "and it is nothing more

creek, about half a mile north of Brownstown, and four or five miles south of Ephrata,inWestEarl township, The first mill built on this site was erected in 1831, just seventy-five years ago, by Mr. Jacob Zook, the father of the present owner and operator, John K. Zook. The present mill is not the one

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

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

result. Much complaint has come to us that children and youths go, daily, up and down the creek fishing, thereby tread- ing down the grass in the meadows. Parents and masters must forbid this. ** Neither of these was started. �Oct. 17, 1808. Dorel Mack caused the congregation much pro- vocation in that

called it Muhlenbergii, possibly also because distributed along the banks of the Conestoga from Brownstown to below Millersville. Probably the most impressive stand of this rare oak is along the Conestoga near its Lititz Creek confluence, where there are several vener- able and stately individuals, well

us with our love, whom we long to See, which I am afraid I shall not have the pleasure this Fall, as I have been lame, & my Leg is very tender that I cant ride except as far as the creek, without hurting it. The misfortune happened a month before & making too free with it last Sessions, it festered

the big house on the Conestoga, while the boats and fishing tackle, which were always in readiness to af- ford diversion to the occupants, were less and less put to active use. Part of the Property Sold. In bringing down the history of the Wabank House itself to this period, some very important

colonies of New England in exchange for other commodities. Beans, mellons, potatoes and tobacco were also among their cultivated products to which Europeans fell heir. Their women cultivated the soil, the men engaged in fishing, hunt- ing and war. When they first met Europeans, the Indians had little or no

country shall be care- fully executed." The Reine Brothers. John and George Reine lived in Earl township. John appears to have been the more important personage of the two. He owned a mill, located on Mill Creek, long after and perhaps still known as Roland's Mill. When his property was seized he appealed

being partly frozen — went and skated on it." April, "All my amusement at present is trout-fishing, which, as they are in great plenty, is very enter- taining. The inhabitants have a droll way of catching shad, a fish I never saw in England." May 2, "An expedition being planned against the Indians under