and government--1775-1783. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 101-103 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

after his retirement from part ownership of Prospect Furnace and named for his wife. (For names of owners and operators of most of the furnaces named above, see Davis' History of Clarion County-1887. In addition to the 31 stacks here named, Caldwell's Atlas mentions two more: Callensburg and Perry

I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the

ancient mills in the county, has much to entertain the imagination that loves local history—that has an appetite for those human interests which, like old vintages, are mel- lowed and blessed by the hand of time. Yonder mill, the type of others similarly abandoned and delapidated in the shifting winds of