Lancaster County. In 1840, a corrected account by the same authority lists eleven forges, three furnaces and one rolling mill. The furnaces were the Colebrook, Elizabeth and Mount Hope ; the rolling mill was the Coleman works at Martic. The market for pig iron was quite unstable, especially in early 1837

greatest number of members is situated in a sparsely populated rural county containing a few boroughs and no institutions of higher learning. This county has only a fifth of the population Lancaster County boasts. Our study would tend to show the "older" counties of eastern Pennsylvania—those which

HARRISON TOWNSHIP RETRACED Fifty-eight years ago, H. E. Steinmetz prepared for the Lancaster County Historical Society a paper entitled "Political Divisions of Lancaster County" which later was published in Volume 5 of the Society's Papers. Among the election districts of the county Mr. Steinmetz

of thirty-two quality gentle- men of more than fifty years' residence in Columbia. William Mathiot was a shareholder in the Columbia Library Company in 18 Ibid., p. 551. 19 H. A. Keefer, "Early Iron Industries of Dauphin County," in The Dauphin County Historical Society Publications, 1927, pp. 21, 29

and a companion established themselves in a cabin along Mill Creek, about eight miles above its junction with the Conestoga, near Bird- in-Hand, Lancaster County. For some time Beissel acted in the self-appointed capacity as spiritual leader of the numerous German sectarians, including the Mennonites