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

-manufacturing and war-provisioning activities should have been a target of the invaders, but the British made no move towards Lancaster. The state government felt safe in Lancaster and remained there throughout the British occupation of Philadelphia. (From 1799 to 1812 the state government made Lancaster its

furnaces and the Safe Harbor rolling mill." Despite a mild depression which occurred in the United States in 1854," Lancaster County anthracite furnaces operated at 70.2 per cent of capacity in 1854, 64.8 per cent in 1855, and 79.7 per cent in 1856. The aggregate number of weeks in operation were 434 in

nineteenth century large numbers of immigrants began arriving in the United States from European nations whose culture was quite different from that of Western Europe and the British Isles from whence had come our early settlers. By this time many Americans had forgotten their own ancestors were immigrants

bitterness made him a man dangerous to oppose and nearly impossible to love as a person. His sarcasm and waspish wit are unparalleled in American history. The failure of the Senate to convict President Johnson capped the bitterness of the aged congressman. He died in Washington, 11 August 1868. Back home in