Lancaster County trade area directory; edited and published for the home owners in Columbia, Lancaster, Manheim, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, Marietta, Mountville, and Wrightsville-as a handy reference to stores and service establishments that stand ready and willing to serve the public in this vital and growing Lancaster County trading area
A biographical history of Lancaster County : being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county : as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character
"Thomas R. Winpenny examines the formative years of the factory system in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the impact of industrialization on the community.The study focuses on the establishment of the Conestoga Steam Mills in the late 1840's and the following three decades. Professor Winpenny maintains that this industrial revolution brought progress and economic benefits without social upheaval and labor strife...Lancaster was able to absorb the factory system without discord because of local circumstances such as the wealth of the countryside, the stability of the long-established town, and the ready supply of resident workers. In a narrower variation of Thomas C. Cochran's geo-cultural concept, Winpenny argues that the character of the industrialization experience is molded by local conditions and that problems often associated with industrial progress are rooted in the environment in which industrialization occurs." [from a review of the book by Robert M. Blackson, Kutztown State College]
