on Beaver Creek / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Shultz, Christian. Shultz's Mill (Lancaster County, Pa.) Flour mills--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Beaver Creek (Lancaster County, Pa.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 97-100

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

the Townships of Sadsbury, Upper Oxford, Lower Oxford and West Nottingham, in Chester County, roads and many of them were needed to and from the farms and mills and centres of trade and industry that sprung up in all that section, as well as the bigger roads and highways that led away to the cities of

Oxford Press, Chester County, dated February 9th, 1870, by Dr. C. H. Stubbs furnishes additional information relative to the status of the chrome industry in Lancaster County at that time. "Andrew Lowe and Benjamin Gibson opened a mine of chrome near State Line and obtained a large quantity of the

disturbed and persons accepting such currency had continually to be on guard to know which of such bills to refuse. �Such conditions likely bred ideas such as that of Reuben Chambers who moved to Bethania, Salisburg Twp. Lanc. Co. from Chester County about 1831 where he established a weekly paper called the

Cornwall, Lebanon County. �Buchanan visited the furnace in June, 1843. The iron made at this furnace had a high reputation with mill and foundrymen. Stack was hot blast, thirty feet high, eight feet bosh. Produced, 1856, 1,500 tons. Abandoned in 185E on account of scarcity of timber and low prices. 4