municipality or society, to appropriate funds for compilation of county war histories or any general history or historical account related to the records and government of the county, and for the publication and distribution of the same. Section 1929 permits counties to appropriate up to $2000 to the oldest

"The Columbia Spy," March 7, 1885. �Four trains of rolls. Sixteen puddling furnaces (nine added during Civil War). Four heating furnaces. The products were rails, bars and rods. Much of the rail was sold to the Northern Central Railroad of Pennsylvania, now part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1880

weaver, and fellow religious thinker. Becker came to Germantown from Crefeld one year before Beissel landed in America. This was the same Peter Becker who established the German Baptist Brethren or Dunkard Brethren. It is not difficult to imagine master and apprentice, seated at their looms, their

1685, French Protestants, called Huguenots, began fleeing France, and together with the German Palatines, came to America after a short stay in the Palatinate. Among these Huguenots were Jean Mathiot, his wife, Margaret Catherine, and his young brother, Georges Mathiot. 1 Jean and Georges were sons of

made a passing reference to a Harrison Township, a township which existed but for several years. Other than to state the new township had been carved out of Rapho, Mount Joy and East Donegal townships, the author did not describe the boundaries or extent of Harrison Township. Reference to old dockets