business was built, takes in lawyers and preachers, editors and doctors, manufacturers and bankers, merchants and mechanics, and men [and women] of all vocations. Intelligence, progress and courage are the common and distinguishing characteristics of the members of the Lancaster Society. Land was purchased

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and

creations, Mr. Ruth found himself �coming out "second best" in an effort to sell an invention to a farm equip- ment company. Among the inventions and patent models the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society has in its collection are a Peerless Track Brake of 1906, a Mason Jar Lid Opener made in 1917 by the

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

, 1963), 1-22, 33-39; Philip S. Klein, "Early Lancaster County Politics (1814-1829)," Pennsylvania History, III (April, 1936), 98-114. 8. John Edward McNeal, "The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County: 1828-1843," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXIX (Easter, 1965), 57-117. 9. W. U

. cit., p. 54. 20. The Columbia Spy. 8 March 1856. 21. The Lancaster Intelligencer, 18 February 1855. 22. Lawrence Van Horn, "The Old Buck Cannon," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXIV (Autumn, 1960), 219-220; United States Patent Office, Patent No. 13,984, 25 December 1855. �23

with a newly-designed eleven-foot bosh.'" Pig iron prices dropped in the autumn of 1873, and a general depression in the trade was felt in Lancaster County. E. Haldeman and Company seized upon this occasion to increase the stack to fifty-seven feet, accomplishing the work between 1 November and 14

Mark Marc Margaret Marged,Margred,Mererid Morris Meurig Michael Mihangel Magdalene Modlen Owen Owain Patrick Padrig Peter Pedr,Bedr Price,Preece Prys Pugh Puw Richard Rhisiart Jane Sian Charles Siarl George Si& Stephen Steffan Timothy Timotheus Thomas Tomos Place Names Lancaster County has three

Edward Barnholt and William Wittick: Lancaster County's Fearless Constables By John W. W. Loose Law enforcement in Pennsylvania prior to the establishment of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1905' was left to the county sheriffs, constables, and police departments of those municipalities that had

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster