Protectionism, Wages and Strikes in the Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose This article has been excerpted from the author's master's thesis completed in 1967 • The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County, Pa.: 1840-1900. During much of the

national pastime—and in Lancaster County the urge found full expression. Whether it was Philip Benedict inventing a new stove—which the Society has in its collection—or Martin Shreiner, the renowned clockmaker, building an elegant new fire engine for the Sun Fire Company, the Red Rose city was not about to

anthracite fuel in its puddling furnaces.11 Availability of bituminous coal and coke from western Pennsylvania at Lancaster, Columbia and Marietta suggests the possibility of their use in puddling furnaces in Lancaster County after the Pennsylvania Railroad was completed across the state in 1854. 12 In fact

pure, a grade "rarely attained anywhere" according to The Columbia Spy. A hydraulic elevator was installed to lift materials to the furnace tops, the only apparatus of its kind in use at iron works in Lancaster County. Water discharged from the hydraulic lift was used to cool the furnace tuyeres and

in the northeast corner of the Greenwood Cemetery. The Building was commenced immediately. On 25 November 1885 the structure was dedicated, and already a waiting list for its services had accumulated. A brochure published at the time described the building thus: The building is a modest brick

townships with Welsh names: Caer- narvon, Brecknock and Lampeter. Caernarvon is a shire (county) and county seat in North Wales. It also is a seaport. The chief products of the county are slate, coal, copper ore, iron products, textiles and chemicals. Its name is derived from the Welsh Caer (wall, castle

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

we have the cases heard by the Lancaster County Court during its first two years of existence. A s the court became better organized, and established its own precedents in sentencing persons convicted by juries or their own guilty pleas, a trend to- wards "getting tough" developed. Moreover, the

for its beauty and the purity of �1662 Co. Poor & House L EMPLOYMENT House of _ - Electrotune Pa. Phila. Map taken from "Survey and Plot" for Commissioners of Lancaster County, December 1877. �of its waters. The City of Lancaster being on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and of the Columbia

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