Protectionism, Wages and Strikes in the Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose This article has been excerpted from the author's master's thesis completed in 1967 • The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County, Pa.: 1840-1900. During much of the

The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform

Lancaster was the last civilized outpost on the western frontier during the French and Indian wars its workshops already were turning out wagons, guns, clothing and numerous items for the protection of the Pennsylvania hinterland. Who can say how many of those artisans and mechanics "invented" day-by-day

been abandoned and razed.' 6 Penn Iron Works Rolling Mill (Lancaster Manufacturing Company Mill) Using the buildings of the former Lancaster Locomotive Works along the Pennsylvania Railroad between North Plum and North Ann streets in Lancaster, the Lancaster Manufacturing Company opened a rolling mill

northwest corner of what is now North Duke and East Walnut streets, Lan- caster, now the site of First United Methodist Church, no detailed description of the facility has been available until recently. Mr. Albert G. Overton, Florissant, Missouri, discovered a scaled plan of the barracks drawn in 1777 by

for its beauty and the purity of �1662 Co. Poor & House L EMPLOYMENT House of _ - Electrotune Pa. Phila. Map taken from "Survey and Plot" for Commissioners of Lancaster County, December 1877. �of its waters. The City of Lancaster being on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and of the Columbia

townships with Welsh names: Caer- narvon, Brecknock and Lampeter. Caernarvon is a shire (county) and county seat in North Wales. It also is a seaport. The chief products of the county are slate, coal, copper ore, iron products, textiles and chemicals. Its name is derived from the Welsh Caer (wall, castle

frequently went criminal hunting as a team. An example of this cooperation was reported in a York newspaper during the 1890's. Detective Edward Barnholt of Lancaster and Constable William Wittick of Columbia were in the city (York) the latter part of last week. They came up North George Street to the