Clio's Century: A History of Lancaster's Cliosophic Society John Ward Willson Loose Few communities in the nation can boast an anomaly quite like the Cliosophic Society. The arts of conversation and genteel discussion, alas, no longer seem to be part of our national culture. Literary societies have

Lancaster County. Many of these enter- prises are gone now. Flourmilling was the county's major dollar- producer in the mid-nineteenth century. Shoe and boot-making was another large industry that should be covered thoroughly. Political history never seems to seize control; it is content to be an old

History of the Lancaster County Historical Society John Ward Willson Loose As the Lancaster County Historical Society begins its second century of service to the community—to the residents, young and old, of Lancaster County—and to the many visitors, scholars, and researchers that come to our

County brewery. Our history begins with a tun and ends with a pun; it is the rise and decline of a once large industry in our midst. It seems almost incredible that brewing has never been the subject of a his­ torical essay concerning our industrial development. The authors would like to anticipate the

in Harrisburg in 1827 attempted to solve the intra-party problem. The charcoal cold-blast furnaces which characterized Lan- caster County as the "Eighteenth Century Pittsburgh" continued to produce iron well into the nineteenth century despite the rising costs and increasing scarcity of forests from

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster