presentations would be staged in Quarryville Memorial Park on a large old flat bed trailer, today's answer to the Conestoga wagon. When the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc, was ap- proached, it decided to portray the Christiana Riot of 1851 as its presentation. Your president and editor

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

Fahnestock Charles S. Foltz, treas., Penn Iron Works Joseph U. Fritchey, salesman Jacob Gamber, tobacco packer Milton Thomas Garvin, merchant William L. Gill, photographer Frank Griest, clerk to County Commissioners William W. Griest, reporter, Lancaster Inquirer newspaper D.H. Grube Dr. J. Max Hark, pastor

moved back to Lancaster to resume his old trade of blacksmithing. His wife did not like the ways of the big city of Philade 1phia. In 1833 Brandt took a position as foreman of the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Parkesburg. When Sellers visited him at the shops he �found Brandt fearful that he had

cases might bring back some "old time thinking" regarding punishment. Capitol punishment has been meted out 41 times in the history of Lancas- ter County. The following roster may be interesting to our readers: Persons Executed by Sentence of Lancaster County Courts Name Indictment Mode Date John Jones

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster

excavation made on the side of the Petersburg Township [State Road] road, just beyond the Pennsylvania railroad. About a mile and a half further north-east, another deposit of calamine was cut through in building the Lancaster Branch of the Reading and Columbia railroad. At that point consider- able ore has