mechanical genius in Lancaster County was William Henry. Henry's abilities in gunsmithing and his outstanding contributions to winning the American Revolution have been described well by Samuel Dyke and others of the gunsmithing fraternity. The manufacture of guns obviously presented numerous challenges to

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

anthracite fuel in its puddling furnaces.11 Availability of bituminous coal and coke from western Pennsylvania at Lancaster, Columbia and Marietta suggests the possibility of their use in puddling furnaces in Lancaster County after the Pennsylvania Railroad was completed across the state in 1854. 12 In fact

.: The Historical Society of Pennsylania, 1940), pp. 356, 406-411. 6. W. R. Brock, The Character of American History (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1960), pp. 106-107. 7. Alan Kreider, "Lancaster County Politics: 1799-1810," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXVII (Winter

, brewer George Wall, innkeeper A.W. Wenger Thomas Atwood Willson, optical good mfg. W.A. Wilson, Esq., attorney Members of the Roman Catholic and Jewish congregations as well as those of mainline Protestant churches were represented among the stockholders. Two of Lancaster's businesses gave solid support

cases might bring back some "old time thinking" regarding punishment. Capitol punishment has been meted out 41 times in the history of Lancas- ter County. The following roster may be interesting to our readers: Persons Executed by Sentence of Lancaster County Courts Name Indictment Mode Date John Jones

sensitive to differences in quality and more responsive to changes in price!' The growth of the American economy resulted in increased rail and coke pig iron production, both oriented toward western Pennsylvania," and neither helpful to Lancaster County iron makers. The last anthracite furnace built in

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

Edward Barnholt and William Wittick: Lancaster County's Fearless Constables By John W. W. Loose Law enforcement in Pennsylvania prior to the establishment of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1905' was left to the county sheriffs, constables, and police departments of those municipalities that had