Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
TRIP TO LANCASTER
MOST INTERESTING.
Motor Journey From Wash
ington Alive With Historical
Scenes and Pleasing Sights.

SOOtISS SAttA tSAOutd StS''SS
With the ever-inereasing number Of
good highways, washington motorists
are needing the call Of the road TO
visit and enjoy the scenic and historical
points of interest in the States neigh
boring the District.
A popular week end tour over excel
lent roads and replete with beautiful
scenery and hundreds of points of his
torical interest takes the motoriSt
north through Frederick to Gettysburg
for q drive over these world-famed
hattlefields. The tour then follows the
Lincoln Highway through York, where
more than $50 years ago the Contl-
mental Congress took UP its headquar-
tiers for . nine months stay.
New Bridge to Open.
Continuing east on the Lincoln High
way, tourists arrive in WrightSville, on
the western bank Of the SuSquehanna,
which was the most northern point
reached by the Confederate troops dur
ing the Civil War. Between WrightsVille
and Columbia a new mile and quarter
long highway bridge IL being con-
structed which viii be the longest con-
crete arch. multiple-span highway
bridge in the country, and which VIII
be opened for trafic about october l.
Reaching Lancaster, the largest and
one of the oldest inland cities of the
original Is Colonies, the motorist Will
find scores Of points from which he
may choose those which have the deep
est interest for him. Lancaster has
many old churches, famous tombs, col
leges, art schools and here also is
Wheatland, the home Of James Buch-
anan, only Pennsylvania to become
President of the United States.
RecreationaI Facilities.
In and about Lancaster are to be
found recreational facilities of every
kind-three country clubs, one with a
27-hole golf course; Williamson Park,
with 140 acres, containing a public golf
course, tennis course, picnic grounds;
Long Park, likewise containing public
golf courses, as well IS picnic grounds,
Fairgrounds and tennis courts and Q
beautiful lake In its 70 acres, as well
as several amusement parks.
Nearby is old Donegal Church, built
in 1740, the local shrine of Presbyterian
ISM with its famed witness tree, "
beneath which the Donegal members
pledged allegiance to the Colonies In
the war for Independence. Just several
miles distant from Donegal on the road
To Marietta the tourist secures, on the
top of Chickies Hill, wonderful view
OF the vast Donegal Valley. A winding
path leads through the woods to
hanna River, where one might spend
hours enjoying the magnificent pano.
rama Of the Susquehanna and border
ing hills.
To the west are the old Seventh-day
Baptist cloisters, primitive buildings
fashioned from handmade materials In
1888, where this noted old religious sect
established the first Sunday school in
America.
II time permits, the tourist may de-
sire to visit Mount Gretna, Summer
resort, where hundreds of Pennsyl-
vanians spend all or part Of the Sum-
mer. Picnic grounds and hotel accom-
modationS are available.
A most interesting trip from Lancas-
ter is the 15-mile (one-way) drive to
Safe Harbor. Here is being constructed
q $30,000,000 dam and hydroelectric
| power plant across the mile-wide Sus-
| quehanna River, which will require
several years TO complete. The view
from an observation site atop a hill on
the Lancaster County shore unfolds not
| only the entire construction project, but
the rare scenic beauties of the Susque-
hanna Valley as well.
The vast linoleum plant, which
doubles the output Of any linoleum
factory in the world, Is open to visitors
al week days. At the edge of the city
are the Union Stock Yards, the largest
cattle market east Of Chicago. In Lam
| caster, too, Is located the oldest hard
ware store in the United States
established in l744, and the Oldest cigar
store, established in ITO, which con-
tinue to be operated by direct descend
ants Of the original owners.
Interesting Settlers.
Mention should be made of the Amish
| Mennonites and Dunkards, who settled
there in ITO. To native Lancastriar
these people OF hardy stock, plain dress
| genuine and firm in their beliefs, are
everyday sights as they stroll uncon-
cernedly along the streets Picturesuuely
they fit into Lancaster's pleasing
atmosphere of hospitality, and they
have retained not only the dress OF
| centuries past but old customs, old ideas
and old standards.
Leaving Lancaster on Route 900, the
tourists drive through Quarryville past
| the birthplace of Robert Fulton, in.
ventor of the steamboat, and on over
the breast of the dam at Conowingo is
situated the hydroelectric plant, recently
completed. Continuing on through Bal
timore to Washington, the motorist
arrives home.
A copy of an illustrated 32-page de-
scriptiVe booklet giving points of inter.
est and how to reach them may be
secured, free of charge, by writing tc
the Lancaster Chamber Of C0Tf1n1erco
| Lancaster, Pa.