courts, and no longer was the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. In early Pennsylvania capital offenses included treason, murder, �manslaughter, burglary, rape and arson. That means the death penalty was possi- ble if guilty. Lancaster County's first court session was held in May, 1729, at John

. Strickler as president. Among the club's twenty vice presidents were C.J. Nourse, Robert Crane, William McDevitt, Paris Haldeman, and John Becker—all owners or officials of local iron works." The County Democratic organization selected Hugh N. North, attorney and investor in iron enterprises in Columbia, as

The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: Rolling Mills 1850-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Desciption Although rolling mills had been used early in the nineteenth century for reducing the thickness of bar iron produced at the forges, rolling mills as a separate industry were

Anthracite Iron Blast Furnaces in Lancaster County 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Description Unlike the charcoal furnace, the anthracite furnace was a product of the age of steam power; indeed, it was a symbol of a whole new era in which the trinity of coal, iron, and steam

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

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

, Hugh(es), Humphrey, James, Jenkins, John(s), Jones, Lewis, Llewellyn, Lloyd, Meredith, Miles(Myles), Morgan, Morris, Morton, Norris, Owen(s), Parry, Powell, Prees(Prys, Price), Pugh, Rees(Rhys, Reese, Reece), Richard(s), Robert(s), Russell, Samuel(s), Thomas, Vaughn, William(s), and Wynne. The Welsh

Edward Barnholt and William Wittick: Lancaster County's Fearless Constables By John W. W. Loose Law enforcement in Pennsylvania prior to the establishment of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1905' was left to the county sheriffs, constables, and police departments of those municipalities that had

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