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The paper makers : early Pennsylvanians and their water mills

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Author: Carter, Jane Levis.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 676 C323

Responsibility: by Jane Levis Carter.

Author: Carter, Jane Levis.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Kennett Square, PA

Publisher: KNA Press,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: viii, 104 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: "Endorsed by the Okehocking Heritage Society."; Includes index.

Contents: The better kind of men: emigration from England to Pennsylvania, prior centuries // Let there be gryst mills: early colonization by Swedesand English along the Delaware River, their use of water power //Up the noble Darby River: first generation plantations established and mills increased // The ancient mistery of paper making: America's first paper mill, history of paper making and watermarks // They set the spinning wheels: eighteenth century political and social developments, rapid increase in paper making, through the Revolutionary period // Down to the mill: Expansion and conversion of paper mills, schism within the Society of Friends, migration of some paper making descendants. Abandonment of water power-------Supplement:" The Wookey Hole : watching paper being made by hand " - by Margaret Petroskas // " Seventeenth century Swedish grist mills in the Delaware Valley " - by Carl and Alice Lindborg.// " Golden Grain and White Dust : flour making along the Brandywine " - by Ruthellen Pine Davis // " The Levis House : outings to the old homestead in the early 20th Century " - by Elizabeth Shafner Macdugan // " Coates family reminiscences : malaria and early milling " - Henry Schreve

Subjects: Water mills - Pennsylvania.; Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania.; Papermaking - Pennsylvania

Additional Corporate Author: Okehocking Heritage Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 676 C323

Grist mills : together with recipes using their products & notes & illustrations of other early mills

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Edition: Rev. ed.

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 664.72 G869

ISBN: 0911410457 :

Edition: Rev. ed.

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Applied Arts Publishers,

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: 32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Grist mills of early America and today.; Original ed. c1978 by Elmer L. Smith.

Summary: "This book focuses on the small neighborhood grist mills which emerged in America and seeks to portray the role they played in the daily rural living. Our space does not permit featuring many of the remaining relics, but the attempt is to offer evidence of the significance of such enterprises as early mechanical sources of energy, as sources of community development, and the relation to industrial and technological advances." [introduction]; Contents: Lanterman's Mill Ohio/ Milling Beginnings/ Early Water Power/ The Mill Stones/ Wheels In Many Industries/ An Iron Making Village/ Modernization/ A Famous Old Working Mill/ Wind Instead of Water/ Down East Windmills/ Little Holland in Michigan/ Amish Energy/ Typical Mill History: Springwell Forge/ Osceola Mills/ Bread And Muffins/ Mountain Mills/ Mill Your Own/ Folklore and Legend/ Inland Mills/ Two Centuries of Muddy Creek Mill.

Subjects: Mills and mill-work; Flour-mills

Additional Author: Smith, Elmer Lewis.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 664.72 G869

The Philosophy of manufactures : early debates over industrialization in the United States

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Date of Publication: c1982.

Call Number: 338.0973 P568

Responsibility: edited by Michael Brewster Folsom and Steven D. Lubar.

ISBN: 0262060760

Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : North Andover, Mass

Publisher: MIT Press ; Merrimack Valley Textile Museum,

Date of Publication: c1982.

Physical Description: xxxix, 462 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Documents in American industrial history ;

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Lancaster County Society for Promoting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts (Pa.).; Industrialization - United States

Additional Author: Folsom, Michael.; Lubar, Steven D.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 338.0973 P568

The establishment of the Pennsylvania Millers' State Association, 1878-1879

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Author: Brubaker, David R.

Date of Publication: 1984.

The Establishment of the Pennsylvania Millers' State Association, 1878-1879 By Dr. David R. Brubaker Hard times were nearly universal for Pennsylvania agriculture from 1873 until about 1896. The American economy was in a state of depression, and agriculture was particularly hard hit. In Pennsyl

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Responsibility: by Dr. David R. Brubaker.

Author: Brubaker, David R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1984.

Physical Description: 181-192 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 88, no. 4

Subjects: Pennsylvania Millers' State Association.; Agriculture - Pennsylvania.; Trade associations.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 88, number 4 (1984), p. 181-192Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.88

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Loosening the bonds : Mid-Atlantic farm women, 1750-1850

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Author: Jensen, Joan M.

Date of Publication: c1986.

Call Number: 305.42 J54

Responsibility: Joan M. Jensen.

ISBN: 0300033664 (alk. paper)

Author: Jensen, Joan M.

Place of Publication: New Haven

Publisher: Yale University Press,

Date of Publication: c1986.

Physical Description: xv, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 231-263.

Subjects: Rural women - Middle Atlantic States; Women in agriculture - Middle Atlantic States; Women in public life - Middle Atlantic States; Middle Atlantic States - Rural conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 305.42 J54

Industrial progress and human welfare : the rise of the factory system in 19th century Lancaster

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Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 670 W776

Responsibility: Thomas R. Winpenny.

ISBN: 0819126284 :; 0819126292 (pbk.) :

Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: University Press of America,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: x, 132 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: "Thomas R. Winpenny examines the formative years of the factory system in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the impact of industrialization on the community.The study focuses on the establishment of the Conestoga Steam Mills in the late 1840's and the following three decades. Professor Winpenny maintains that this industrial revolution brought progress and economic benefits without social upheaval and labor strife...Lancaster was able to absorb the factory system without discord because of local circumstances such as the wealth of the countryside, the stability of the long-established town, and the ready supply of resident workers. In a narrower variation of Thomas C. Cochran's geo-cultural concept, Winpenny argues that the character of the industrialization experience is molded by local conditions and that problems often associated with industrial progress are rooted in the environment in which industrialization occurs." [from a review of the book by Robert M. Blackson, Kutztown State College]

Subjects: Bauman, Jeremiah.; James, Charles Tillinghast; Kautz, Jacob F.; Graham, Dana.; Black, John.; Cockley, David; Altick's (Daniel) Coach Works.; Shaffner and Graham's Comb Factory.; Carson and Kautz Brickyard.; Conestoga Steam Mills.; Lancaster Locomotive and Machine Manufacturing Company.; Leaman's Gun Works.; Best's Boiler Works.; Lancaster Gas Company.; Konigmacher and Bauman's Tannery.; Kirkpatrick's Foundry and Machine Shop.; Keeler Farm Equipment.; Factory system - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Cotton manufacture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Working class - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Geiger Furnace.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 670 W776

The anthracite iron industry of Lancaster County : rolling mills 1850-1900

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1982.

The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: Rolling Mills 1850-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Desciption Although rolling mills had been used early in the nineteenth century for reducing the thickness of bar iron produced at the forges, rolling mills as a separate industry were

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Responsibility: by John Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: 129-144 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 86, no. 4

Subjects: Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Founding.; Factories - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Rolling-mills.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 86, number 4 (1982), p. 129-144Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.86