AN OLD MILL AND ITS OWNERS If you go down the entire length South Queen street to the banks of the stream which was once known as the Conestogoe, though in our par- lance os the present century we have changed the two final vowels into the softer a, you will come to "Graeff's Landing," in sormer

AN OLD OIL MILL. At the foot of the western end of the "Mine Ridge," thereabouts better known as "Stony Hill," and in the northwest corner of Eden township, near the old Conowingo ore mines, and about half a mile east of Camargo, on a branch of Beaver creek, stands a large, quaint old stone

Cider Press at Hess Mill A cider press was an important feature of the well-ordered and com- plete early 19th-century farm mill. Presses were constructed in a variety of styles. Essentially, however, provision had to be made for extracting the juice of the apples by great pressure. Generally this

THE ELSER HOMESTEAD AND FAMILY HISTORY, The Elser homestead, better known as Elser's saw mill, is located on Mid- dle Creek, in Clay township, about one-half mile southeast of the village of Clay. The original tract contained 104 acres of limestone land, while the tract at present contains 96 acres

THE EPHRATA PAPER MILL. A paper was read a short time ago be- fore the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania upon the subject of paper making and the different water marks used by the Willcox family, whose history the learned speaker traced through the several gen- erations down to the present time

earliest settlers, especially those in the eastern section of the county, went as far as the Brandywine "to Mill ;" however, that was a time-consuming journey, and very little grain could be conveyed at one time by the best means of transportation. Hence, methods for grinding grain at home were sought and

of land in what is now Eastern Caer- narvon. The patent was entered on record on November 1, 1718, in Philadelphia, in Patent Book A A, Volume 1, page 376. On this land a saw mill was erected during 1718, and later, 1721, a grist mill. On April 1, 1741, part of this tract was deeded to John Jen- kins

THE STORY OF SH ULTZ'S MILL ON BEAVER CREEK By Herbert H. Beck The artificial structure of an inhabited region like Lancaster County is primarily determined by its natural topography and its drainage—by surface conditions chiseled out by the geological hand of long past centuries. Thus it is that

and a companion established themselves in a cabin along Mill Creek, about eight miles above its junction with the Conestoga, near Bird- in-Hand, Lancaster County. For some time Beissel acted in the self-appointed capacity as spiritual leader of the numerous German sectarians, including the Mennonites