59 by 1910. In 1913, the year Dr. Clifford Twombley discovered our fair city had 44 houses of prostitution within six blocks of Penn Square, 62 churches and synagogues were doing their best to save souls. Let us look at some of the reasons Lancaster was a "wide open" town in the late nineteenth

nineteenth century the iron industry of Lancaster County represented the area's largest single employer of capital; and second only to flour, the county's major manufacturing entity in terms of value of production. The old cold blast charcoal furnaces, with their enormous demands for charcoal, deforested

the bill for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. 4 The Pennsylvania delegation in the House of Representatives split 2-18 on the vote, according to the Intelligencer-Journal (15 March 1932). Lan� caster County Congressman J. Roland Kinzer and a Democratic congressman voted nay, while 16

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

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

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