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Old Time Gardens 
rent was known here. In Manheim, Pennsylvania, 
stands the Zion Lutheran Church, which was gath- 
ered together by Baron William Stiegel, who was 
the first glass and iron manufacturer of note in this 
country. He came to America in 1750, with a 
fortune which would be equal to-day to a million 
dollars, and founded and built and named Man- 
heim. He was a man of deep spiritual and reli- 
gious belief, and of profound sentiment, and when in 
1771 he gave the land to the church, this clause was 
in the indenture : — 
“ Yielding and paying therefor unto the said Henry 
William Stiegel, his heirs or assigns, at the said town of 
Manheim, in the Month of June Yearly, forever hereafter, 
the rent of One Red Rose , if the same shall be lawfully 
demanded.” 
Nothing more touching can be imagined than the 
fulfilment each year of this beautiful and symbolic 
ceremony of payment. The little town is rich in 
Roses, and these are gathered freely for the church 
service, when One Red Rose is still paid to the heirs 
of the sainted old baron, who died in 1778, broken 
in health and fortunes, even having languished in 
jail some time for debt. A new church was erected 
on the site of the old one in 1892, and in a beauti- 
ful memorial window the decoration of the Red 
Rose commemorates the sentiment of its benefactor. 
The Rose Tavern, in the neighboring town of 
Bethlehem, stands on land granted for the site of a 
tavern by William Penn, for the yearly rental of 
One Red Rose. 
