, 1797, and entitled, "An Act to provide for the erection of Houses of Employment and Support of the Poor in the Counties of Chester and Lancaster." This Act authorized and required the election of six reputable citizens of the County to be "one body politic and incorporate in law," under the provision

predecessors, Dr, John Light Atlee was such a pioneer, His natural curiosity and scientific attitude drove him to seek further into the cause of the fearsome cholera which struck the Lancaster County institutions and the bor- ough of Columbia in 1854. He was not content to make official reports; he had to

Survey. of 19th Century iron Industry in Lancaster County BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE The romance of eighteenth century iron industry has appealed to many historians, novelists and artists. Mention of this dram- atic enterprise immediately suggests lovely stone mansions sur- rounded, plantation-wise