.' When William Penn drafted his "frames of government" for Pennsylvania, the English system was adopted, lock, stock, and barrel. County courts were established with justices of the peace holding sessions quarterly (hence "quarter sessions of the peace court"). Not only summary offenses, misdemeanors

. Transportation was important, for coal does not occur in Lancaster County. Anthracite coal was brought to Lancaster County by canal boat, as was steam coal from southwestern Pennsylvania. The newer furnaces had to be located on or near canals, and along railroads for delivery of pig and wrought iron to the

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

A SURVEY OF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN PENNSYLVANIA Few problems cause more concern among county historical society officers than those of finance, and particularly, the matter of sufficient income. This is not surprising in view of the emphasis placed on the virtue of the fatted treasury. A

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

have intended is to increase your pride in the diverse talents of Lancaster Countians. When I come to the end of this paper I hope many of you will want to add more to our knowledge of this largely untouched subject. I have no doubt that tinkering and inventing began in Lancaster County whenever the