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

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

of the Civil War after which he attend- ed Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University). Following his graduation he entered the famed Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his degree of doctor of medicine in 1870. He practiced for some years in Rohrerstown and

iron producer; by 1890, the county had dropped to twenty-fifth in the nation." Accord- ing to the Secretary of Internal Affairs, Lancaster County in 1897 produced thirty-six hundredths of one per cent of the pig iron and seventy-eight hundredths of one per cent of the wrought iron manufactured in

stronger, and its adoption during the Civil War was accomplished with much suspicion. One of the Griffen cannon was called "Old Buck" and was used around Lancaster by the Franklin and Marshall College boys to celebrate James Buchanan's victory. In 1882 the election of John McGonigle to the mayor's office

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and

, Jr., "The Geology of Lancaster County," Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1880) pp- 196-198. 2 Ibid, pp. 198-203. 3 B. L. Miller, "Lead and Zinc Ores of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Topo- graphical and Geological Survey

anthracite fuel in its puddling furnaces.11 Availability of bituminous coal and coke from western Pennsylvania at Lancaster, Columbia and Marietta suggests the possibility of their use in puddling furnaces in Lancaster County after the Pennsylvania Railroad was completed across the state in 1854. 12 In fact

townships with Welsh names: Caer- narvon, Brecknock and Lampeter. Caernarvon is a shire (county) and county seat in North Wales. It also is a seaport. The chief products of the county are slate, coal, copper ore, iron products, textiles and chemicals. Its name is derived from the Welsh Caer (wall, castle

borough, and several other communities had their own police depart- ments before World War II. Up to this time the constable usually was the principal law enforcement officer in most areas of Lancaster County. Most municipalities in Lancaster County now have police departments, and the Pennsylvania State