furnaces COLUMBIA ANTHRACITE IRON BLAST FURNACES AND ROLLING MILLS OF LANCASTER COUNTY 1840-1900 6,---Safe Harbor rolling mill .---Safe Harbor furnace Vesta furnace �the Spy until the tariff controversy erupted again in 1888: As Democrats we are at a loss to understand the motives of the Demo- cratic

County, all of them using pig iron manufactured in anthracite iron blast furnaces. These anthracite iron works—furnaces and rolling mills—were located within a triangle formed by Lancaster City, Marietta, and Safe Harbor. In this iron triangle the greatest concentration of iron works was situated in the

Wolf and James Dougherty, in 1838 were granted the first patent for a solid railroad car wheel casting. As the iron industry, both primary and secondary, that is, pig iron production and wrought iron shapes, and articles made from cast or wrought iron, developed in Lancaster County the interest in

Millersville before establishing a joint prac- tice with his brother, Dr. Samuel T. Davis, in Lancaster. �The furnaces and retorts of the Lancaster Crematorium. Although he was a highly respected physician recognized for his profes- sional competence, he was an "innovator" in a conservative profession, and his

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

. . . 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

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

- missioners of the County of Lancaster, tender, and will donate, to the State of Pennsylvania a site for the erection of the proposed institution. The said site consists of a tract of land, belonging to the County of Lancaster, situated near the limits of the City of Lancaster, and containing about twenty