natural feature within her boundaries. To record, therefore, this important phase of the past industrial activi- ties of the county, which have in a large measure contributed to its great wealth, and which as one of its aspects stands unique in the mining history of the United States, (namely, a mine and

Pequea Silver Mine) "promises to be one of the most valuable mines of the Atlantic States." The company was capitalized at $250,000 with 50,- 000 shares of stock at $5.00 par. Much of the work visible at the Pequea Silver Mine apparently was done around 1863 by the Lan- caster Lead Company. Excerpts from

any purpose which would be of advantage to them. I merely quote this �record to show that they were mining or about to mine ore at that early date. In Vol. 2, of the Penn and Logan correspondence, page 321, dated the third of March, 1709, there is a letter from William Penn to James Logan in which he

concern, that we, the suhscribers, were frequently at the copper mines in Lancaster county, known by the name of Gap mine, during the time the said mine was working by James Logan & Company, and from hearing the people often talking of the water put the blades of our knives into the water as it came from

Digging and Devotion at the Gap Nickel Mines Since 1857 Jean M. Lichty Two churches, located in the Nickel Mines community today, are like a memorial to a once-great mining industry during the most profitable years of its existance, between the latter 1850's and 1893. The churches were closed for a

was along the Big Chickies Creek two miles northwest of Silver Spring. This furnace was never profitable. Donegal Furnace, erected in 1848 by James Myers, Dr. George Eckert and Daniel Stine, was located between the Mari- etta furnaces and Chickies #2. Its size was 36 x 12, with annual production of