EARLY MANUFACTURING IN LANCASTER COUNTY: 1710-1840 (PART 3, CHAPTER V) METAL, LEATHER, AND WOOD CRAFTS FREDERICK HUBLEY , COPPERSMITH, in the Borough of Lan- caster, makes all sorts of COPPER and BRASS WARE, in the neatest and best manner . . . in Queenstreet Lancaster, viz. STILLS, brewers

EARLY MANUFACTURING IN LANCASTER COUNTY: 1710-1840 (PART 4, CHAPTER VIII ) MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES The Propietor of the American FLINT GLASS MANUFACTORYat Manheim, in Lancaster County, with the Advice of many Gentlemen in this City, his Friends, has offered a SCHEME of a LOTTERYto the Patronage

industries at Lititz about that time. 22 Thirteen oil mills which produced 8,920 gallons in one year were reported in the county in 1810. 23 As the production of flax and hemp gradually declined thereafter, the number of oil mills decreased until only two were reported in 1840. 24 Lancaster County oil found

Philadelphia (excepting those in the city of Lancaster which pay specie when demanded) after the 14th day of November next." 5 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, November 4th, 1818. The Lancaster County Society for the Encour- agement of American Manufactures By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of the

Lancaster, where so many useful manufacturing establishments are in opera- tion, the citizens will not be backward in giving countenance to the exertions of their brethren in other sections of the United States." In response to this appeal, a number of persons friendly to domestic manufactures, met at Col

in this county. Tradition would place it, in one or two instances, early in the 1750's, and, while we know to a certainty that at least three men, who later made many clocks, were in business in Lancaster as "clockmakers" prior to 1760 by a few years, yet we have been unable to get reliable evidence