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

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

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

and Delaware as they are bounded at the present time and a portion of Pennsylvania, extend- ing to the 40th degree north latitude, but was restricted to unsettled and uncultivated lands. The Dutch had settled at the mouth of Lewes creek in 1631, for a short �time, but were driven off by the Swedes. In

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

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