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

Lancaster County. In 1840, a corrected account by the same authority lists eleven forges, three furnaces and one rolling mill. The furnaces were the Colebrook, Elizabeth and Mount Hope ; the rolling mill was the Coleman works at Martic. The market for pig iron was quite unstable, especially in early 1837

appeared in the early days. No. 1 with belfry and flag on apex of roof. Frederick Seegar, George Musser, James Morrison, William Webb, George Ilich and Zachariah Moore, the Directors for the employment and support of the Poor for the County of Lancaster, being respectively, and duly notified of our

Bethel, ½ acre. Little Fishing Is., 1 mile below Columbia, in the middle of the river. Oct. 3, 1811. Michael Wissler, 3/ 4 acre. Cooper's Rock Is., 400 yards from land of William Wright in York County, and opp, to land of John Hogentoog- ler on Lancaster shore, about 1 mile above Wrightsville. April 27

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." In 1804 he claims a home in Hampshire County (part of old Frederick) , Virginia. In 1807 he was in Jefferson County, Kentucky, near the Brookharts, and their families have a tradition that Daniel came east and saw the sailing of the Clermont on the Hudson, and that he was an

thoroughly with hot water and strong soap between each contact with their charges, and with the clothing and vessels of the inmates, The cholera epidemic of 1854 is a part of the social and medical history of Lancaster County, It was a terrible human drama repeated thousands of times in towns and cities

greatest number of members is situated in a sparsely populated rural county containing a few boroughs and no institutions of higher learning. This county has only a fifth of the population Lancaster County boasts. Our study would tend to show the "older" counties of eastern Pennsylvania—those which