EARLY MANUFACTURING IN LANCASTER COUNTY: 1710-1840 (PART 3, CHAPTER V) METAL, LEATHER, AND WOOD CRAFTS FREDERICK HUBLEY , COPPERSMITH, in the Borough of Lan- caster, makes all sorts of COPPER and BRASS WARE, in the neatest and best manner . . . in Queenstreet Lancaster, viz. STILLS, brewers

Early Manufacturing In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1710 - 1840 Part I Carlton 0. Wittlinger Messiah Co.Jlege Grantham, Pa. Published as Volume 58, No. 6, of the Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society �Table Of Contents l:E Chapter I The Natural Environment. Chapter II The People and

EARLY MANUFACTURING IN LANC. CO. (Continued from Vol. LVIII, page 189) PART H By CARLETON 0. WITTLINGER CHAPTER III MILLING, DISTILLING AND BREWING There are many flour-mills on the large and small Conestoga creeks, where much flour is made for the Philadelphia market. The millers are very rich

Philadelphia (excepting those in the city of Lancaster which pay specie when demanded) after the 14th day of November next." 5 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, November 4th, 1818. The Lancaster County Society for the Encour- agement of American Manufactures By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of the

Lancaster, where so many useful manufacturing establishments are in opera- tion, the citizens will not be backward in giving countenance to the exertions of their brethren in other sections of the United States." In response to this appeal, a number of persons friendly to domestic manufactures, met at Col

in this county. Tradition would place it, in one or two instances, early in the 1750's, and, while we know to a certainty that at least three men, who later made many clocks, were in business in Lancaster as "clockmakers" prior to 1760 by a few years, yet we have been unable to get reliable evidence

Wolf, Jr., David Summy, Lewis Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved

A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HUGH W. NEVIN Aviation, we hear on every side, is in its infancy. Although our modern transport ships fly through the air with the greatest of ease, crossing the continent between dawn and dusk, joining the north and the south by hours, crossing the