Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

RockSpringsand Surrounding By HERBERT H. BEM Rock Springs and Indian Bowls Rock Springs, in southern Fulton Township, Lancaster County, are prob- ably unique in America. It is doubtful if their combination of extraordinary geological and archaeological characters exists anywhere else. As one of the

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

The History of the Gas and electric industries in Lancaster County By HORACE RICHARDS BARNES Introduction STUDENTS of economics and business are familiar with con- solidations and mergers. Indeed integration, either horizontal or vertical, or a combination of the two types of integration, is an

of Miss Montgomery, died on the hill. He was one of the most active of the ironmasters, and was generally esteemed according to Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County as a "genial, kind-hearted, and enterprising gentleman." Abram Musselman's children were all educated in private schools. His

principal of fertility than a single ton of tobacco."4 4 The Lancaster Farmer, Vol. II, 1870, p. 119. �One reason why the culture of tobacco was not early introduced on an extensive scale in Lancaster County was the exhaustive effect which the crop has upon soil. As soon as farmers become wiser and more

Early Coin and Private Scrip of Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN In introducing the subject of this paper I wish to call your attention to the large variety of coin which circulated or was referred to in early Lan- caster County, and follow with brief reference to the origin and extent of issues of

. We know that the 4 Buttorff, T. Theatre in Reading until 1851. Hist. Review of Berks County, 1940, 9. Gardener Collection, Box 17. 6 Hensel, W. U. Major Andre's Residence in Lancaster. Papers of the �English officers played theatre in Lancaster; Major Andre lived in town. We can conclude therefore

, between 1729 and 1813, was Lan- caster County. In Lancaster County these hills, from the days of the iron- masters there, are called the Furnace Hills. At the county seat of Lebanon County they are called the South Mountain. Viewed from Brickerville, Cannon Hill, immediately to the north, appears as a