County; the Caernarvon ore deposits were mined for iron works in Berks and Chester counties." Geologists and iron manufacturers preferred the ores from the banks and mines situated along the slope east of Marietta to Silver Spring, to those located in the southern portion of the county. Most of 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

seen fit to provide such protection. Each county had an elected sheriff; in Pennsylvania the sheriff was primarily the executive officer of the court, charged with carrying out the orders of the court, serving papers, and keeping the peace within the county. The sheriff (shire reeve) is an ancient

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

to the crematorium: the Penn Iron Works, a rolling mill headed by A.J. Stein- man; and the Inquirer Printing Co., the largest job printing plant in Penn- sylvania (later to become the Wickersham Printing Co.). Political an- tagonists such as A.J. Steinman, W.U. Hensel, M.T. Garvin, and W.W. Griest

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

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