History & local legend
West Main Street in Strasburg has a story about a horse-drawn wagon carrying soldiers through town long after their journey should have ended. Some residents describe only hoofbeats; others say they have seen the wagon and its passengers.
A version traced to an August 2005 Ephrata Review article identifies the men as Revolutionary soldiers returning from the Battle of Germantown. Their Conestoga wagon overturned on the way home, killing them. The wagon is said to reappear along the road where the accident happened.
Another local version places Civil War soldiers on leave in the carriage. Both tellings follow a street whose wheelwrights, blacksmiths and tavernkeepers once served generations of travelers crossing Lancaster County.
