About Conestoga, Lancaster PA!

This township was formed as early as 1712, and originally embraced a territory much greater in extent than at the present time. In 1853 Pequea township was formed from the eastern part of it, at which time the boundaries were materially changed. As now defined, it boundaries are Manor township on the northwest, Lancaster township on the north, Pequea township on the east, Martic township on the south, and the Susquehanna River on the west. It contains about nineteen thousand six hundred acres of land, surface rolling, and the soil of excellent fertility and well cultivated, containing some of the best farms to be found in Lancaster County. The population in 1880 was two thousand Five hundred and fifty. Conestoga Center, near the centre of the township, Rockhill is the northwest, Slackwater in the north, Safe Harbor in the west, and Colemanville in on the southeast, are the chief centers of population. It contains at present six hotels, seven stores, three cigar manufactories, five post-offices, two grist-mills, one paper-mill, one rolling-mill, one furnace, seven churches, ten schools, and one tannery. There were, in 1883 six hundred and thirteen taxables. Value of real and personal property is a little over one million, five hundred thousand dollars.

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