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

of the Civil War after which he attend- ed Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University). Following his graduation he entered the famed Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his degree of doctor of medicine in 1870. He practiced for some years in Rohrerstown and

Pennsylvania Hall of Fame evoked a small storm of protest. Numerous telephone calls and letters— many anonymous—to this speaker is sufficient evidence to demonstrate the effect Stevens had on the history of our nation. Though dead for 106 years, the "Old Commoner" continues to inflame men and create

, The Triumph of Militant Republicanism, A Study of Pennsyl- vania Politics: 1860-1872 (Philadelphia, Pa.: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964), p. 206. 12. Frank W. Taussig, The Tariff History of the United States (New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), pp. 178-179. 13. The Columbia Spy, 29

completed it covered an acre of ground, measuring 165 feet wide and 265 feet long, and was surmounted with a roof containing 5,000 square feet of Peach Bottom slate!' During the Civil War the rolling mill converted from rail production to making wrought iron cannon for the Union forces. John Griffen, first

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

impossible to find anyone in the young United States who could fix the instrument. The engineer was amused when he was told young Getz could fix it, but when the native son convinced him he could do the task, he permitted him to try. Getz quickly rebuilt the surveying instrument "better than new" and the

, bridges, election district boundaries, township organization, etc. Common pleas court handled civil cases and matters of equity. Between the implementation of the Constitution of 1790 and the 1838 Constitution, oyer, terminer and general jail delivery jurisdiction was finally re- turned to the county

technology continued to haunt the pioneers of anthracite iron furnace development until the conclusion of the Civil War when demand for more and better iron, and eventual competition from steel, required more courageous action on the part of the entrepreneurs.19 Technical Era (1865-1900) Aside from the non