Early Coin and Private Scrip of Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN In introducing the subject of this paper I wish to call your attention to the large variety of coin which circulated or was referred to in early Lan- caster County, and follow with brief reference to the origin and extent of issues of

close of the nineteenth century when the Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Company was in control. We have now reached the period in the economic history of public utilities in Lancaster County where the same integration in business begins to take place as has marked the development of American business to a

they built. Among the very pioneers of railroad building was the capable local civil engineer and surveyor, JOSHUA SCOTT, who planned the State Road through and west of Lancaster in 1833. Many early Lancaster County maps and surveys were drawn by him, one being presented with the compliments of the

of Miss Montgomery, died on the hill. He was one of the most active of the ironmasters, and was generally esteemed according to Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County as a "genial, kind-hearted, and enterprising gentleman." Abram Musselman's children were all educated in private schools. His