Front:
OLD CONESTOGA WAGON, EN ROUTE TO PHILADELPHIA SESQUI-CENTENNIAL
LEAVING LANCASTER OCT, 19, ARRIVING PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 20, 1926
Back:
HIS OLD CONESTOGA WAGON, now the property of Amos
S. Gingrich, Lancaster, Pa., is at least one hundred and thirty-
nine years old, and is one of thousands which were the principal
means of heavy transportation between Lancaster, Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, up to the advent of the railroad.
This Wagon has been used in many notable celebrations. In 1912
it was used to haul a load of powder for the DuPonts from Wilming-
ton, Delaware, to Erie, Pa., to participate in the Commodore Perry
Celebration. It is one of the very few left, and is the same type of
wagon used in hauling supplies during the Revolutionary War.
It is being used on this trip to convey a number of Lancastrians
to the Sesqui-Centennial in Philadelphia, Pa., headed by Hon. Frank
C. Musser, Mayor of Lancaster City, Amos S. Gingrich, A. B. Rote,
John J. Bair, George K. Reynolds, W. Ralph Sensenich, Charles H.
Crudden, William A. Brinkman, J. G. Forney, Henry B. Howell,
William F. Lebzelter, Joseph P. Breneman, D. J. Eckman, and William
Shaub.
OCTOBER 19-20-21, 1926
