-manufacturing and war-provisioning activities should have been a target of the invaders, but the British made no move towards Lancaster. The state government felt safe in Lancaster and remained there throughout the British occupation of Philadelphia. (From 1799 to 1812 the state government made Lancaster its

given by the military or the federal government.10 The United States Army Military Institute in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania and the Lancaster County's Veterans Affairs Director, George Worthington, were both helpful in confirming this. I found the five volume history of the 28th Division during the

twelve to fifteen thousand gross of finished corks per day. The Conestoga Cork Works was created by Harris Boardman in 1860. Originally located in a building at Locust and LimeStreet, that structure burned in 1882 and the firm moved to FultonStreet shortly thereafter. According to the United States

Lowlands, the region consists of a fertile valley, which has resulted from the comparatively rapid weathering ofthe underlying compressed layers of limestone and shale bedrock. As a consequence, this area contains some of the richest, most productive soil for agriculture in the eastern United States (Cuff