little cider press located on Fishing Creek at Cramer's Mill in Drumore Town- ship. Mr. Grossman, a specialist in early log cabin culture, sketched the press and later prepared a measured drawing of it for the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior. An employee of the National Park

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

these men built a shad battery at Fishing Creek. The rock, seen from Cutler's Point, sticking out of the water, was at the head of the island where they made their �headquarters; the battery was some distance above this rock. Further on, Mount Johnson Island loomed as a big island in those days." But

entirely different from the conventional wheat or corn stones. A very unique dressing is found on a pair of stones obtained from the former McCrabb Mill on Fishing Creek, Drumore Township (now at the Martic Forge Collection). The best way to describe this dressing is that it is boxlike or in squares

for three months. "Prawl's Hollow," a lonely place in Drumore township, this county, is haunted by the spirit of a peddler who was killed there; and old Lupin, who broke his neck on Fishing creek, can still be seen there of nights. There are several haunted houses that can- not be occupied; one that

trade. (37) �, (38) Among the prominent mills were Buckley's and Moore's Brothers on Octoraro; Smith's (afterwards Groff's) ·on B eaver Creek about New Pro- vidence ; Jacob Bear's (afterwards Myers') on Carter's Creelt, at Oregon, Abey's, Stoneman's and others. These determined several roads. One or two

fishing again. He never did—shortly after this episode he suffered a stroke and died. The Pequea The Pequea Creek rises in eastern Lancaster County and flows generally westward through southern Lancaster County to empty into the Susquehanna. It is a small stream and Dad and I had never seriously

to, dur- ing and after the Revolutionary War, but they established and maintained for many years what was known as "The Latin School" on a Fishing Creek farm, in Drumore township. This in- stitution gave an impulse to higher education that has lasted ever since. It sent scores of young men from Lower

credit. Joseph died in 1902 and is buried near Union Grove. Shirk's improvement of the grain cradle should remind us that during the first four decades of the 19th century Drumore Township had a number �of scythe and sickle mills, most of them along Fishing Creek and Puddle Duck Creek. An 1820 local

COMMERCIAL FISHING IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER Forever yielding products of economic value, the broad Susquehanna, beauti- ful as well as utilitarian, is studied by Mr. Heydinger in its role as a fish- monger's paradise. The story of fishing in the Susquehanna breaks into time sections matching

homestead, since entirely disappeared. Just below this old house the path came into the road again, down a steep bank into which several large stone steps had been placed. This was at the foot of the hill where the road made a sharp curve around a great spreading oak tree. Across the creek and up the road

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