Cornwall furnace and the Cornwall ore banks, or mine hills. Situate at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Penna. Paper read before the Lebanon County historical society, February 20, 1901
Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.). Historical paper and addresses. Vol. II, no. 1
Contents
Chapters : The early manufacture and uses of iron -- The first manufacture of iron in America and in Pennsylvania -- The first manufacture of iron at Cornwall -- Robert Coleman -- Subsequent owners of Cornwall Furnace -- Henry William Stiegel -- The Cornwall ore banks , or mine hills -- Some of the theories relative to the formation of the Cornwall ore banks , from a geological standpoint
Cornwall furnace and the Cornwall ore banks, or mine hills. Situate at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Penna. Paper read before the Lebanon County historical society, February 20, 1901
Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses. Vol. II, no. 1.
Notes
LCHS also has copy of this paper in : Lebanon County Historical papers and addresses, v. 2, no. 1 : Call number : 974.819 - L441.
Contents
Chapters : The early manufacture and uses of iron -- The first manufacture of iron in America and in Pennsylvania -- The first manufacture of iron at Cornwall -- Robert Coleman -- Subsequent owners of Cornwall Furnace -- Henry William Stiegel -- The Cornwall ore banks , or mine hills -- Some of the theories relative to the formation of the Cornwall ore banks , from a geological standpoint
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Summary
HISTORIANS HAVE TRAPPED William Henry of Lancaster (1729–86) in the identity of gunsmith. Though meant as a compliment— most accounts portray Henry as the most important gunsmith in the "rifle-making hub of colonial America," Lancaster County— - this confinement is ironic, since Henry escaped this occupation as soon as he was able. The term gunsmith, then as now, could describe men who repaired guns, who produced specialized gun parts (such as barrels or locks), who created an entire gun from scratch (lock, stock, and barrel), or who ran a factory that employed other men. Henry seems not to have engaged in any of these activities after 1760. By the last decade of his life, Henry had achieved a level of financial security (and apparently embodied the virtuous independence thought to derive from it) that led his peers to entrust him with positions of responsibility and that left Henry free to accept them. He served first in local and state governments and was later appointed an administrator and financier for the Continental army and elected twice to the Continental Congress. We have failed to register the shape of his career, the magnitude of his transformation; instead, historians have imagined that during all these varied activities, Henry continued to work as a gunsmith. Indeed, the belief that Henry "was engaged in the manufacture of firearms for over thirty years," that he produced the rifles or muskets carried by soldiers from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, has been central to stories about him. [abstract]
"By following the story of my great-grandmother Isabella Ford's life, and adding to it with information from available sources, I have been able to get a better understanding of the circumstances of Lancaster's free blacks. Her story provides a sense of life in mid-nineteenth century Lancaster County and shows how free black families held their own, despite an environment that was often unfriendly and that restricted their opportunities by both law and custom."
"On April 17, 1865, eighteen year old John Rakestraw left the family farm in Bart Township, Lancaster County, to attend Unionville Academy, a small Quaker boarding school in Chester County. During the time he was away his two older sisters wrote to him regularly. Ten of those letters have survived and they provide a candid and often painfully honest glimpse of life on a Lancaster County farm in the 1860's. Diaries and ledgers kept by John's father, William I. Rakestraw , provide additional insight into that that time and place." [excerpt from the text]
