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“The township of Eden was taken from Bart, and legally organized into a separate township in 1855, with boundaries as follows: North by Strasburg, northeast by Paradise, east by Bart, southeast by Coleraine, and southwest by Drumore, west by Providence. The township, according to the census of 1860, contained a population of 982. of which 90 were colored. In1870 the number of inhabitants has increased to 1075—1034 native born, and 41 foreign; 1020 white, and 55 colored. The principal stream is Beaver Creek, which affords the motive-power for the various mills along its banks, and also forms an important feature in the raising of stock and other agricultural products. The most important village in Eden is QUARRYVILLE, a village of about 200 inhabitants, noted principally for the amount and quality of the stone quarried there and manufactured into lime. There are forty lime-kilns in the place, producing annually 500,000 barrels of lime, and employing one hundred men. The general business of the village is represented by one large general store—which transacts a large trade in the place and also in the surrounding country,--two blacksmith shops, two tailor stores, one tinsmith, one wagon and carriage shop, two harness shops, one cigar manufacturer, two shoe stores, three hotels, and one restaurant. It is also a post-town, George W. Hensel being the present Postmaster. The Franklin Telegraph Company does business here. It is the southern terminus of the Lancaster and Quarryville Railroad, which has just been completed. With the increasing facilities for easy transportation of the vast amount of lime made here, and the products of the surrounding country, Quarryville gives great promise of ultimate importance and success.

There is a small settlement around May and Camargo post-offices, which are the only post-offices or settlements besides Quarryville in Eden Township. Martin M. Mowrer is Postmaster at Camargo, and J. H. Gilbert at May.

There are large beds of iron ore in Eden Township, and mines have been opened and operated about two miles north, and also two miles west of Quarryville.

The land is generally high and rolling, except in the valley or basin extending across the township, where it is level and remarkably fertile. Most of the soil is rich limestone, and very productive. All of the cereals and many varieties of fruits are produced abundantly. In fine, the name “Eden” is very appropriate, both as regards the picturesqueness of the landscapes and the agricultural importance of the township.

Among those of the prominent farmers of the township whose practical knowledge and agricultural ability entitles them to a complimentary notice, are Henry Keen, Sr., James Creswell, Jacob M. Eckman, Robert Hamill, James, Issac, and Robert Montgomery, Jacob and Gilbert Bushong, James Risk, Jacob Myers, William Dungan, and others.

There are in Eden three grist and two saw mills, five hotels, five common schools. It is in ar