Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser low much more winter will have? Your guess is as good RED WING SHOES COMFORT NEVER QUITS Red Wing _ comfort torce svs w WORK HARD Allensville Shoe Shop Fisher Harness & Box 7 State Route Shoe Shop Star Route, Box 47 HONRY BROOK Brandywine Shoe Shop 1620 Cambridge Rd. KITTZTOWN Waynes Dry Goods 271-273 W. Main St 215-683-7686 as mine so far, we haven’t had much snow in Lancaster County. Fitting You Right Is Our #1 Priority. ;ville 5 fRG MARTI Zimmerman Harness RD 2 Box 36 814-793-3961 MIFFLINTOWN Lost Creek Shoe Shop RD #1 Box 88 Our county was separated from Chester County in 1729. That was the same year that my ancestor Hans Adam Shreiner came from Gommersheim, Ger many. He claimed 500 acres and later returned to Europe and brought his family here in 1733. We’ve been told that his grandson, Michael, brought home a Conestoga wagon in 1750. It was used to haul grain from the fields and also to transport crops to Philadelphia and return with goods they needed. This wagon was kept in the family and stored in a shed. In .LERSBURG MI Tall Pines Country Store 796 Kessler Rd 717-362-3024 (voice mail only) 4^jp)ES' REHRERSBUI Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 2, 2002-B5 the 1930 s it was photographed for a book on Conestoga wagons. Two years ago it was sold to Landis Valley Museum for $52,000 at a public sale. It is being restored to show to the public. Most wagons were allow ed to rot away instead of being preserved for more than 200 years. A man from Roanoke, Va. wrote to me recently as he is in terested in wagons. In his area a “Newtown” wagon was a puzzle until they realized it was a Con estoga wagon made in a place called Newtown. It was used to iPRINGFIE Red Wing Shoe Store 511 Baltimore Pike 610-544-1664 move Roanoke College to Salem from Augusta in 1847. More than 150 years ago these wagons may have brought early settlers down the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania. Often only wheels remain from these vehicles, and it takes an expert to recognize them. Six large horses pulled these wagons. One road used to cross the Conestoga River was “Peter’s Road.” Today it forms a bound ary of our son’s farm. Peter Bizel lion was a French and Indian fur trader. The road ran from Chest er County to the Susquehanna River more than 250 years ago.
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