mechanical genius in Lancaster County was William Henry. Henry's abilities in gunsmithing and his outstanding contributions to winning the American Revolution have been described well by Samuel Dyke and others of the gunsmithing fraternity. The manufacture of guns obviously presented numerous challenges to

nineteenth century the iron industry of Lancaster County represented the area's largest single employer of capital; and second only to flour, the county's major manufacturing entity in terms of value of production. The old cold blast charcoal furnaces, with their enormous demands for charcoal, deforested

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

sensitive to differences in quality and more responsive to changes in price!' The growth of the American economy resulted in increased rail and coke pig iron production, both oriented toward western Pennsylvania," and neither helpful to Lancaster County iron makers. The last anthracite furnace built in

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

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

- 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

, 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

Lancaster city, with a capitalization of $200,000, �par value $1.00, with $25,000 paid in. Ninety-one acres were acquired in Venango County. Colonel William H. Engle, an ironmaster, was elected president, and Amos Bowman, cashier of the Marietta First National Bank, served as teasurer. Other directors were