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1 Winters Heritage House Museum P.O. Box East High St., Elizabethtown, PA (717) Return Service Requested US Postage Paid Non-profit Org. Elizabethtown, PA Permit No. 1 Winters Heritage House Museum Member Newsletter We are Elizabethtown History! Published quarterly by the Elizabethtown Preservation Associates, Inc. Spring 2018 Winters Heritage House Museum P.O. Box 14 / 47 East High Street Elizabethtown, PA Hours: Wed., Thurs., Fri., 9:30am to 3pm and by appointment Winters-HH@ElizabethtownHistory.org Inside From A to Z Amazing Buch Collection! Drawing Ends Finally! Garden Heirlooms In Juxtaposition! Kitchen Lesson Mentors Newbies! Observe Plentiful Quilts Real Soon! Talented, Unique Vendors Wanted! Xtreme Yoga Zone!

2 Featured volunteers Winters Heritage House Herb Garden Committee If you have a love of gardens, or are interested in learning more about this skill, have we got the group for you! The Winters Heritage House Herb Garden Committee was founded in 1991, when the museum first began, and are the caretakers of a traditional German colonial raised bed garden in the museum s backyard. The garden is organized into quadrants containing medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, vegetables, and dye plants. It is a focus point of museum tours and supplies vegetables for hearth cooking classes, seeds and herbs for the museum store, and craft materials for creative projects. The produce is shared with the Elizabethtown food pantry and community kitchen. This year the herb garden committee is expanding to overtake a forgotten bit of ground along East High Street to begin a small community-share garden of vegetables and flowers. There is a planned Heirloom Seed Swap activity scheduled for March 24th. Many of the seeds are from the museum s garden. Last year the event attracted gardeners from as far away as York and West Chester. The group is always hoping for more hands to help and friendships to form. They will be meeting to discuss this year s garden on Thursday, March 8, at 6pm in the museum. Please call to let us know you would like to drop-in! Museum phone: Workshops and Classes Museum classes run on an as-requested basis. Round up 3 to 5 friends and set a date with us. There is a single flat fee per class, regardless of your participant numbers. Workshops and classes may be scheduled during non-museum hours. To learn more about these or to organize a class, please contact the museum or visit our website. Children and Family Workshops (ages 15 and younger) for up to 8 children with 2 adults. Workshops offer plenty of hands-on opportunities. These are fun and educational gatherings for scouts, homeschool students, birthday parties, families, and friends. Wool to Weaving See how wool is processed into yarn, try each step, and learn some weaving basics. Many of the steps were children s chores, long ago! Scherenschnitte Pennsylvania German Scissors cutting. We ll teach you the tricks to cutting intricate designs from paper. Several levels of difficulty are offered. German Folded Paper Stars Learn to fold traditional Moravian-style paper stars from strips of paper. Especially fun for pre-teens and up. Once mastered, this is an addictive craft! Colonial Tea Party Dress up in our early American costumes and have a fun afternoon learning to embroider and practicing tea-time manners. Adult Classes (ages 16 and older) Classes accommodate from 4 to 6 people and are geared to beginners interested in developing solid foundation skills. Hearth Cooking Spend a fun day cooking over a fire then inviting friends to dine on your efforts in a colonial atmosphere. We will work in our hearth kitchen to make a complete meal. Participants may each invite one guest to come dine (up to 8 total meals). Quilting Master basic quilting techniques for making your own heirloom pieces. Absolute beginners should expect to need at least 4 sessions. Jo Garvin instructor Genealogy Research Spend time with our research staff learning how to best uncover family genealogies using the Seibert Library s unique resources as well as internet services. Hand-Spinning Wool Learn the steps to processing fiber, from cleaning a raw fleece to hand spinning yarn. Covers both drop spindle and spinning wheel techniques. Beginners should expect to need at least 4 sessions. Scherenschnitte Work with local scherenschnitte artist, Joli Miller, to master the skills needed to cut incredible, beautiful designs from paper. Rug Braiding Learn the skills for braiding beautiful rugs and mats. Carolyn Newcomer, instructor.

3 Dear Elizabeth Our Historic Advice Column The spirit of our town founder, Elizabeth Hughes, residing here from 1750 to 1760, offers her advice to our generation. If you have any advice needs from or a history question for Elizabeth, please send them to Dear Elizabeth, c/o Winters Heritage House Museum ; Winters-HH@ElizabethtownHistory.org Dear Elizabeth, We keep several chickens in a coop in our backyard. We enjoy the eggs they lay and they are fun pets for our kids. Lately, the borough authorities have been alerted to our hens, and now we have been told we must get rid of them. Apparently, it is against the rules for borough residents to keep chickens in town. I think the rule is because roosters crow loudly, and it disturbs the neighborhood. Since our hens are quiet, I think they should be allowed to remain. I do not know how to handle this whole situation. It has me very frustrated and angry. What should I do? Dear Clucking, Signed, Clucking Mad What a curious dilemma you are facing! I cannot fathom a family home without the basic necessity such as a good laying hen provides. Next thing you know, your extraordinary times will call for that you no longer maintain a horse, nor pig, nor any cattle in town! If you submit to such a rule, they might become inclined to impose a cost to your use of water or set a tax against your property! Such rules as these fly against your most basic freedoms, and are truly beyond acceptance! Fortunately, I have a solution to provide; in my day, when people in authority attempted to withdraw basic rights, we took to the streets in protest. I noted during the revolution that the burning of a tar dummy on the lawn of the town magistrate often brought results both quickly and effectively. Perhaps in your case, a mock chicken that has been tarred and feathered would best impart your sensibilities towards this abhorrent law. Put flame to your false fowl and toss it o er yon governor s hedge at the time when roosters are want to crow. You are completely justified in this. Surely limiting your access to basic foods is intolerable for the many families surrounding you, as well. Support for your position will be strong, and similar acts of protest will follow. Dear Elizabeth, Yours in Revolution, Elizabeth My long time male friend was recently sent to prison for grand theft auto. He is very sorry for his crime, but it will be years before he can get released on parole. In the meantime, he says he now realizes that I mean more to him than just a friend, and that he wants to marry me. I have always wished we could be more than just friends. In fact, he may be my one true love, but am not sure I want to be the wife of a jailbird. I also worry that he only proposed because he feels lost and alone in jail. What should I do? Jail-bird s True Love Dear Jail-birdbrain, In my era, I can only be eternally thankful that love was not heavily considered prior to taking a life course of action such as marriage. I suppose it is the fault of my Victorian descendants (your Victorian ancestors) for bringing into the world the romantic nonsense that your generation now pursues as if t were your last and only purpose on the earth. By this I mean your search for one true love. I maintain that it is absolute hogwash to let your life be led about by your heart strings, but truly I feel my advice stands apart from our differing views on what love should bring. I will advise that this person is neither worthy of nor interested in your heart. Coming late to such a conclusion seems as ignoble as one can be, as one who loves you would never insist that you bind your heart to a felon. He has made his own bed, and while he lies there amongst the crumpled linens, pondering his poor behavior, you must certainly find a more appropriate suitor. I assume you must be an orphan with not a soul to watch over your activity, as this situation would never have been allowed to run so far amuck had you kin to assist your choices. Hence, I encourage you to engage your local matchmaker and see that she sets you up immediately with a suitable mate with a bit of land or, please, at least, a mule. Additionally, you will find that, once so bound, love will follow and your days shall be better for it. Yours, truly Elizabeth

4 Fun Findings From the Seibert Library This article, found in the archives of the Seibert Library originally appeared many years ago in the Lancaster New Era. Aside from the always-fascinating history of these wonderful early freight wagons discussed, pay particular attention to the opening paragraph and note how these colonial-era wagons were inadvertently forming a spot in the American frontier for European immigrants. Be sure to read the adjoining research piece by Dale Good (also this newsletter) to get the native American story on how they were migrating to avoid changes made by settlers and to best preserve their culture. The Conestoga Draft Horse was the first recognized breed of horse to be developed in the Americas. They were described as having clean legs and short tails to minimize clinging mud, were steady minded and slow gaited, and stood 17 hands (5.5 feet) at the shoulder. Bred to pull the heavy freight wagons, the breed vanished from record by the early 1900s.

5 Museum Happenings (Continued) Spring Calendar March Museum re-opens (March 9) Buch Exhibit Gala Opening, March 9, 5pm-8pm Story Hour, March 16 Heirloom Seed Swap, Saturday March 24, 9am-noon April Buch Exhibit closes April 13 Story Hour, Apr. 13 Spring Class Special Family Hearth Cooking make a meal for 8! Call for special price. May Quilt Show (through June 1) Opens May 2 Story Hour, May 11 Stretch Away Stress Dahn Yoga Master, Elizabeth Mosher, is leading Yoga Classes in the museum s community building (33 East High St.) every Wednesday from 10:30am to 11:30am. Proceeds support the museum. For more information, call Elizabeth, at or ekmosher@gmail.com The museum is seeking vendors for the 2018 Elizabethtown Heritage Craft Show This year s show runs Nov. 9 & 10 Items must be produced by the vendor and exhibit quality craftsmanship. Jewelry, clothing, crafts, food items, and other unique merchandise is welcome. Please send a description and several photos of your work to Winters-HH@ElizabethtownHistory.org Spring is coming! Plan now to bring your group to our annual May Quilt Show Show opens May 2nd and runs through June 1, during museum hours and by appointment. Call for group discounts and special tours. This colorful exhibit includes approximately 30 quilts, histories, quilting info, and more! Also shop our selection of heirloomquality hand quilted pieces for sale, and take a chance on this year s raffle quilt.

6 Locust Grove's Native America Heritage Conoy Redux By Dale Good, Seibert Library, WHHM Locust Grove, at the confluence of the Conoy Creek and Susquehanna River, is about six miles southwest of Elizabethtown. Archaeologists have identified five Native American settlements at Locust Grove dating back as early as AD when the Native Americans' foraging and hunting way of life was transitioning to agriculture and village life. settling at Conejohela, an old site which had been vacated by the Susquehannocks in the neighborhood of Washington Boro. According to a letter written for the Conoy Chief Old Sack in 1743, for delivery to Pennsylvania's Governor Thomas, the Conoy eventually saw fit to move higher up the Susquehanna from Conejohela to Locust Grove. The Conoy, as did the Shenks Ferry, Luray and Susquehannock tribes before them, found the ancient river terraces surrounding the confluence of the Susquehanna River and Conoy Creek to be an attractive place to settle. The land was still mostly forested and not yet legally claimed by early immigrants. Years later, Chief Old Sack reported, upon their settling at Locust Grove, the Indians of the Six Nations came down and made their fire, all great men declared the fire of their kindling to be a token of their approval." First, came the Shenks Ferry People, then the Luray and Susquehannock and lastly the Conoy. It was the Conoy who played a major role in molding Locust Grove's future. Their settlement attracted French fur traders, then Scot-Irish fur traders, which resulted in the establishment of a tavern to serve the traders; and, as more immigrants arrived over the fur traders' paths, looking for land to farm, a grist mill was built. Today, a vestige of this sequence of events at Locust Grove is the Haldeman Mansion. The Haldeman Mansion Preservation Society will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Conoy Indians at Locust Grove in June This is a brief recounting of the Conoy's history and legacy. The Conoy (c ) The Conoy were an Algonquian tribe, related to the Delaware, but their closest relations were with the Nanticoke, with whom they were probably united in late prehistoric times, the two forming a single tribe. In southern Maryland, their homeland, they seem to have been mostly referred to as the Piscataway. However, they were also known variously as: Kanawha, Canawese and Ganawese. The Piscataway population has been estimated at 1,000-2,500 at the height of their numbers, just before first contact with Europeans. At the time of Captain John Smith s arrival in present day Virginia in 1607, the tribal lands of the Piscataway included most of Maryland from the mouth of the Potomac to present-day Washington, DC. It was when they moved to Pennsylvania in the early 1700 s that they came to be known by the Anglicized version of their Iroquoian name, Conoy. In 1701, they attended a treaty signing with William Penn in Philadelphia. The treaty prepared their early 1700 s move into Pennsylvania under the protection of the Iroquois nation, who dominated the area at the time. The Conoy moved north into the lower Susquehanna River Valley first By 1718, three Native American paths converged in the Locust Grove area. These paths may have been one of the reasons the Conoy choose the Locust Grove site. A north-south Paxtang Path ran along the Susquehanna River connecting the Great Minquas Path at Washington Boro with Shamokin (present day Sunbury). An old Indian Path out of the Philadelphia area traversed the Conoy Creek near present day Nissley Winery and connected with the Paxtang Path north of present day Bainbridge, just south of the Conewago Falls. Frequently used by the French fur trader Peter Bezaillon, beginning about 1718, it became know as Peter's Road. A third path, the Conewago connected with the Paxtang Path north of Bainbridge by the Conewago Falls and extended to present day Carlisle. This Path, after 1718, became known as the Conoy. While still living in Maryland, the Conoy's lodges were described as oblong, oval in shape light is emitted through the roof by a window a foot and a half long. The window serves to carry off the smoke, for they kindle the fire in the middle of the floor and sleep around the fire. They live for the most part on a kind of paste which they call pone, and omini, both of which are made of Indian corn, and sometimes they add fish, or what they have procured by hunting. We can imagine that these traits were mostly brought with them to Pennsylvania, as were other customs. Evidently, the notorious war parties that were traditionally carried out to avenge a slain member of a tribe or to gain personal war honors were still practiced, as 20 Conoy went south on a forty day expedition in December 1733, according to accounts in the Pennsylvania archives. Only seven returned.

7 Locust Grove's Native America Heritage (continued) A year after the Conoy s arrival, in 1719, the land around them began to be surveyed for white ownership. Tracts were surveyed just north of present day Rowenna for Peter Bezaillon's wife Martha, and for her brother Moses Combe. According to historians, by the early 1720 s, over twenty fur traders were living in the surrounding area. In 1743, the Conoy left Locust Grove. According to Chief Old Sack, "the land all around them (was) being settled by white people, their hunting spoiled". Archaeologist Barry Kent has expressed the opinion that The Conoy site at Bainbridge was of the Native American Refugee Phase, that its population was about 130 and included refugees of other tribes that had been displaced by the advance of the European immigrants". Locust Grove's Transfiguration ( ) One year after the Conoy's departure, Scot- Irish fur trader/farmer John Galbraith obtained a land patent for Locust Grove' from the William Penn Family. Eleven years after the Conoy's departure, the Pennsylvania Colony experienced the onset of the French & Indian War ( ). Locust Grove's first owner, John Galbraith experienced heavy losses in his fur trading business before and during the war. Second owner, Lieutenant Colonel James Galbraith seems to have used Locust Grove as a temporary refuge for his family, moving them to safety, away from their Derry Township home on the frontier, as he served to protect the frontier. Third owner Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Work was second in command of one of Pennsylvania's three military brigades during the war. He was selected to serve on a jury of fourteen men in December 1763 to investigate the Conestoga Indian Massacre in Manor Township. Twenty-four years after the Conoy's departure, Patrick Work placed a Locust Grove sales advertisement in Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette. He described his Locust Grove property, in part, as follows "A valuable plantation... two good dwelling houses, two barns, stables... fit for two farms... cleared land is within good fence... a good orchard of grafted trees, a valuable hop yard, with a good kiln... an abundance of good timber... a large and convenient stream of water... sufficient for almost any kind of water works; a race is already drawn from said stream... by which may be watered a large quantity of meadow, about 10 acres already clear, and yields good hay, there is a great part of said land that will bear hemp." Economic Development had advanced at Locust Grove. It was becoming part of what was called by one cartographer, "The Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania". It was a process that can be said to have begun when the Conoy settled there, a move blessed by the great men of the Six Nations. The Conoy Settlement & Cemetery Rediscovered ( ) A small scale excavation was conducted at the Conoy settlement in 1951 by the Pennsylvania State Museum (William Penn Museum). Many post molds, one burial, several pits, beads, kaolin pipe stems, numerous stemmed and notched projectile points and other flaked stone tools were discovered. During the summer of 1970, an 8,000 sq, ft. excavation by the Museum uncovered 5 extended burials, over a dozen storage and refuse pits and a possible house outline. On the second day of the Museum's excavation, upon the discovery of a farmer, they shifted their work 200 yards south and discovered a stockaded Shank Ferry village surrounding the Haldeman Mansion. Its southern portion overlapped a major cemetery for the Conoy settlement. In the cemetery, the Museum s field crew encountered about 50 burial pits representing over 75 individual bone bundle burials. Artifacts uncovered at both sites can be seen in the William Penn Museum, Harrisburg, PA, a place formerly known as Peschtauk. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES Access Genealogy 2014Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Bailey, Kenneth P., 1947 The Ohio Company Papers, Egle, William Henry, 1991History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ellis & Evans,1883 History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Evans, June, 1988 Archeological Testing at the Haldeman Mansion. Evans, Samuel Smith, 1896 Old Mills and Ordinaries, Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society Glah-Donahue, Lisa 2010, The Role of Pottery in Shenks Ferry Mortuary Features at the Mohr Site. M.A. Thesis Graybill, Jeffrey R. and James M. Herbstritt, 2014 The Luray Phase, Mohr (36LA39), and the Protohistoric Period. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 30: Gruber, Jacob 1968 Excavations at the Mohr Site, Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society Patterning in Death in a Late Prehistoric Village in Pennsylvania. Hazard, Samuel, 1853 Pennsylvania Archives, Volume IV, Joseph Severns & Co., Philadelphia, PA Kent, Waddel, Leonard, 1976 Papers of Henry Bouquet, Jan. 1, Aug. 31, 1759; Kent, Barry C., 1971 Conoy Town on the Lower Susquehanna River, Kinsey, W. Fred, III, 1984 Monitoring Construction at the Haldeman Mansion, Locust Grove, Pennsylvania.

8 KEEP YOUR MEMBERSHIP Memberships are our primary resource for maintaining the museum. Please take the time to renew your annual membership, or consider becoming a Nogging Brick member and auto-contributing monthly. If you renew early we will add the membership year to your existing due date. Membership Form NEW ReNEW Name: Address: Phone: Membership level (circle one) Individual $25 Patron $100 Family $40 Sponsor $250 Sustaining $60 Benefactor $500 Nogging Brick Membership at $ / Month Thank you for your support! Check enclosed # Amount : Or Credit Card: Expiration: All members receive free admission to museum events, and unlimited research time in the Seibert Library. Be sure to use these and other membership benefits! Please send this form to the address provided here. The museum does not have an on-site mailbox. Winters Heritage House Museum P.O. Box 14 Elizabethtown, PA nd Annual Heirloom Seed Swap Planned On Saturday, March 24th, from 9am to noon, the museum will be hosting its second Heirloom Garden Seed Swap. Last year the well-attended event had people from many communities stopping by to share and trade seeds. Many gardeners collect their garden s seeds from year to year. Swap and trade your extra seeds for new varieties from the museum s supply and with other visitors. Nothing to swap? Make a small donation, and help yourself to the bounty. We will have plenty of seeds on hand. Quilt Raffle Winner Drawn Heirloom seeds are those that are not genetically altered and will produce the same plant every year. (not your everyday seeds, anymore!) We also welcome hybrid/gmo seeds, and will have a separate table just for those. Vegetable, flower, and herb seeds are all welcome. Please wrap and label all seeds for trading. Labelled hybrid/gmo seeds are also welcome. Over New Year s Eve, the last raffle tickets for the Heritage Hearts quilt were sold, and the Winters Heritage House Quilt Committee has drawn the winning ticket. The green and burgundy quilt featured cross-stitched hearts on its hand quilted top, and was on display at the museum front desk since May Ticket sales reached the $400 mark over the holidays, and the group was excited to pull the winning ticket. The winner was Cindi Young of Bainbridge, who bought her ticket at the 2017 Heritage Craft Show. In her words, I am thrilled to be the one chosen to receive this quilt. I love quilts and sewing. This quilt will be cherished for years to come. Proceeds from the quilt support the museum s education programs. The committee has already promised a raffle quilt for Stop by the museum to look it over and purchase the first tickets! Cindi Young and her husband in front of the 2017 Raffle Quilt.