The Ku Klux Klan in Lancaster County:1923-1924 Donald A. Crownover Preface "The Two-Year Reign of the Invisible Empire in Lancaster County" concerns the historical heritage and trails which the Ku Klux Klan burned into the soils of the Conestoga Valley between 1923 and 1925. It took the movement of

pressing debts, was very much interested in mines to revive his fortunes through the process and sale of mineral resources. Consequently, the soil of Lancaster County was periodically searched into, for currently valuable metallic ores. 2 The land at the Gap Mines was purchased by James Steel, and divided

attitude toward work, and the traditions of thrift as well as in- dustry. Another important factor in assessing the reputation of Lancaster as a well established industrial center, is the presence of a number of plants operated by nationally famous corporations. To name a few, there are Aluminum Company of

on a high plane and the respectable citizens were proud of their city. Lancaster was not excessively industrialized.1 Just as the physical body may be plagued with diseases, so the social body may be impaired with such diseases as alcoholism, gam- bling, prostitution, political crookedness, juvenile

, "the creator of the Conestoga ideal" and president of the company1; Isaac C. Hartman, of Lancaster, proprie- tor of the Miller & Hartman Wholesale Grocers Company and secre- tary-treasurer of the truck company; and C. G. Engle, Charles L. Harner, L. H. Whitaker, and Charles A. Stauffer, directors. 2

Elizabeth Furnace Plantation Herbert H. Beck Elizabeth Furnace Plantation, one of the historic and picturesque features of Pennsylvania, began with John Jacob Huber of Germany. In 1746 Huber acquired 400 acres of lands, with allowance of 18 acres for roads, then in Warwick Township, Lancaster