Digging and Devotion at the Gap Nickel Mines Since 1857 Jean M. Lichty Two churches, located in the Nickel Mines community today, are like a memorial to a once-great mining industry during the most profitable years of its existance, between the latter 1850's and 1893. The churches were closed for a

Cider Press at Hess Mill A cider press was an important feature of the well-ordered and com- plete early 19th-century farm mill. Presses were constructed in a variety of styles. Essentially, however, provision had to be made for extracting the juice of the apples by great pressure. Generally this

at 290 Broadway in New York City. A newspaper article stated that "from every indi- cation this is the beginning of a large and lucrative business."41 Such was not to be the case. Debts continued to increase and on November 27, 1919, Isaac C. Hartman, treasurer of the company, went into United States

before the Revolution and at least as early as 1768, for in April of that year when the fabulous "Baron" Stiegel purchased the property the amount of the transaction is scrupulously recorded in the Furnace account book. The "Minehole" was valued at thirty pounds, eight shillings, a figure difficult to

, New Hampshire, took there the name of its titled English benefactor, the second Earl of Dartmouth. At this school, tensions developed between William and the other students of so serious a nature that Wheelock was compelled to ask John- son to rebuke his son for "pride and violence of temper." Instead

an integral part of the public school system".16 At last, after thirty-three years of struggle on the part of the Association, there was joy in kindergarten circles for Miss Ellen Brubaker moved into the new Wickersham School as a public school kindergarten teacher and the work of the organization

house to begin a trip it knew by heart, to Paradise, Pa., to pick up its first load of revenue freight under the new ownership. �The last passenger coach on the Strasburg, purchased from the Pennsylvania, as it looked near the end of its days in the 1920's. It is shown here beside the milk station at

- pose of the greenhouse was to replenish dead shrubs and flowers. How- ever, the greenhouse has since been demolished because it was costing more to raise new plants 'than to buy them. The original farmhouse was used for years as a tea room until 1931, when it was converted into a second pavilion at a

cases of protracted illness or dismissal."3 In the case of Abraham R. Beck, however, the recent discovery of a record book containing numerous letters written by him between 1883 and 1921 now affords the opportunity of taking a more intimate look at one of the great schoolmasters of the nineteenth

The separation between the two societies was gradual. The corner stone of the Christiana Riot was laid in Pennsylvania in 1780. During March of that year the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law for the grad- ual emancipation of slaves. 2 With Massachusetts (1783), New York (1799), New Jersey (1804