Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

Survey. of 19th Century iron Industry in Lancaster County BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE The romance of eighteenth century iron industry has appealed to many historians, novelists and artists. Mention of this dram- atic enterprise immediately suggests lovely stone mansions sur- rounded, plantation-wise

Spreng­ er's daughters, Catharine, married Lawrence Knapp, a brewer; and another, Anna, married Frank Ried Diffenderffer, who was a found­ er of the Lancaster County Historical Society.1 2 Shulze and Cameron purchased Jacob Leman's brewery in 1829.1 3 Leman was the father of the famed riflemaker, Henry