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

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

Society weighed in on Lancaster's morality, it became apparent the task required more than the sharp eyes of a handful of public-spirited citizens. An agent was employed to keep an eye on what was going on in Lancaster. He checked magazine stands and motion picture houses and dance halls. He kept an

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

, which fol- lowed the iron rolling developments, made use of similar machin- ery, processes and terms, for which a present tense description would be appropriate. Much of the data herewith listed has been compiled from many sources, such as Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, the reports of the

A SURVEY OF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN PENNSYLVANIA Few problems cause more concern among county historical society officers than those of finance, and particularly, the matter of sufficient income. This is not surprising in view of the emphasis placed on the virtue of the fatted treasury. A

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

Miller to the extent that he was elected a member of �the American Philosophical Society while he served the Cloisters. His per- sonal friends included the Penns, General Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and many prominent men of worldly significance. But this intellectual giant, this eighteenth century

history have been known to state that the first court house in the center of Penn Square was constructed of logs. Their source was H. M. J. Klein's Lancaster County Pennsylvania: A History, published in 1924 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Examination of page 328 of volume I reveals the

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

Lancaster County, Wright having served since 1717. Cornish and Hendricks had been appointed in Chester County in 1724. All were Quakers, or members of the Religious Society of Friends. At the November session of 1729, Andrew Galbraith and Thomas Edwards were added as justices. Edwards was appointed a

describe garbage furnaces for cities, hotels and families and cremation furnaces for human bodies. He also manufactured antiseptic cuspidors. The Lancaster Crematorium and Funeral Reform Society published a monthly journal, The Modern Crematist, said to be the first of its kind in the nation. The 16-page