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

, Ballord, Chadbowren & Co. By saving both honor and the economic life of Pennsylvania in 1841, Governor David R. Porter brought about an economic and industrial rebirth during which time the iron industry grad- ually adopted the technological improvements. The tariff of 1842 provided the impetus which

. Transportation was important, for coal does not occur in Lancaster County. Anthracite coal was brought to Lancaster County by canal boat, as was steam coal from southwestern Pennsylvania. The newer furnaces had to be located on or near canals, and along railroads for delivery of pig and wrought iron to the

the late 1940s when the writer was an undergraduate stu- dent, field trips to the site were yielding fragments of tube retorts, condensers, bits of slag, fused refractory material, and bricks. Not even these remain to testify to that singular industry. To the geolo- gist the limestone in which the

and vice. German and Irish immigration brought many persons to Lancaster in the middle and late nineteenth century. Unlike earlier immigrants who were for the greater part middle-class artisans that practiced their trades in Lancaster, many of the newer residents competed for the available laboring or

fingers working the fibres into a fabric while their minds busily pondered the uniting of the German-speaking settlers into congregations of local inspiration. It must be remembered the Lutheran and Reformed churches had not as yet furnished an adequate supply of clergymen for the settle- ments in the

The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform