Cider Press at Hess Mill A cider press was an important feature of the well-ordered and com- plete early 19th-century farm mill. Presses were constructed in a variety of styles. Essentially, however, provision had to be made for extracting the juice of the apples by great pressure. Generally this

Digging and Devotion at the Gap Nickel Mines Since 1857 Jean M. Lichty Two churches, located in the Nickel Mines community today, are like a memorial to a once-great mining industry during the most profitable years of its existance, between the latter 1850's and 1893. The churches were closed for a

erected in America was built in 1612 on Manhattan Island by Dutch settlers, but Columbus discovered on his fourth voyage to the New World that the natives of Central America were brewing a beer produced from maize. Ac­ cording to a diary kept by a Mayflower passenger the Pilgrims land­ ed at Plymouth Rock

Clement Bates Grubb Builds a House on Lime Street (Editor's Note: We are indebted to James Rawle of Philadelphia for un- covering these notes from Grubb's Account Book in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) Building a house on a square of ground purchased of Ann M. Eveans. At the suggestion of

at 290 Broadway in New York City. A newspaper article stated that "from every indi- cation this is the beginning of a large and lucrative business."41 Such was not to be the case. Debts continued to increase and on November 27, 1919, Isaac C. Hartman, treasurer of the company, went into United States

before the Revolution and at least as early as 1768, for in April of that year when the fabulous "Baron" Stiegel purchased the property the amount of the transaction is scrupulously recorded in the Furnace account book. The "Minehole" was valued at thirty pounds, eight shillings, a figure difficult to

, New Hampshire, took there the name of its titled English benefactor, the second Earl of Dartmouth. At this school, tensions developed between William and the other students of so serious a nature that Wheelock was compelled to ask John- son to rebuke his son for "pride and violence of temper." Instead

an integral part of the public school system".16 At last, after thirty-three years of struggle on the part of the Association, there was joy in kindergarten circles for Miss Ellen Brubaker moved into the new Wickersham School as a public school kindergarten teacher and the work of the organization

, circuses, festivals, and fairs of Lancaster were stopped and the Society was helpful in sup- pressing 40 gambling games and a few immoral shows at the County Fair. During these years, vice conditions in Lancaster underwent a new and thorough investigation by one of the most expert investi- gators in the

undetermined origin in 1784.12 Following the ruin of the first Centre Square court house, ar- rangements were made for erection of a new seat of justice to be built at the same site. The building was constructed sufficiently by September, 1786, so as to allow borough elections to be held in it. Court was being