, Treasurer, before the Justice and Grand Jury as in Page 108, and at the same time agreed to build two stone bridges, one across the tail race of William Douglass' mill, in Caernarvon township, on the Provincial Road lead- ing to Windsor Furnace, and the other over Conestoga Creek, on the Provin- cial Road

Slaymaker, and one from Jonathan Walcott, and another from Theodore Burr, were presented by the committee. Thomas Boude, James Wright and Samuel Bethel were a com- mittee appointed "to view the chain bridges at Wilmington and Schuylkill, and report their opinion to the next meeting of the board." 2 William

Fords and Bridges, Across the Conestoga from Morgantown to Hinkletown. COMPILED BY M. G. WEAVER. We may enumerate the great advantages and note the wealth wrapped up in the powers of the Conestoga, and of the fertility of the soils rendered profitable by it and by its numerous branches in its sixty

McCall's Ferry Company By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, pp. 131-144, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled, "Some Early Lancaster County Bridges." In that article the author, the late S. M. Sener, Esq., described the bridge at McCall's

I. THE OLD WOODEN COVERED BRIDGES OF THE OCTORARO By D. F. Magee, Esq. When in about 1905 the engineering corps and the executive officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company selected the Octoraro Creek as the sole source of their supply of pure water for their engines in use on the eastern

. and George F., under the firm name of John Goll & Co. They did extensive remodeling to the stations at Harrisburg and Philadelphia, on the Pennsylvania Line, and completed several bridges on the Cumberland Valley Road. JOHN H. HOOK, of German descent, son of John and Catherine Klaus Hook, was born in

and Thomas Wentz. She was born Decem- ber 19th, 1808, and died July 27th, 1896. If this standard is still in existence, it should have an honored place in Lancaster's new museum when that fire-proof structure is erected. Does anyone know where it now is? RAILROAD BRIDGES OVER THE BIG AND LITTLE