Rock Ford adds museum

(Lancaster New Era) The bone-handled table knife might have been used by Revolutionary War Gen. Edward Hand at a meal.
A piece of broken china might have been held by George Washington in 1791, when he visited Hand's Lancaster home.
And some of the beautiful but deadly muzzle-loading rifles could well have been used against the British by Hand's battalion of Pennsylvania riflemen.
Rock Ford Plantation, Hand's luxurious late-18th-century home, is about to open an auxiliary museum featuring an array of Pennsylvania rifles, artifacts from a series of archeological digs at the site and items from a local historian's collection of Pennsylvania German folk art. Continued

1. Rockford, Rock Ford Road (West Lampeter Township), Lancaster vicinity, Lancaster, PA (Library of Congress) 2. General Edward Hand (http://www.findagrave.com/)