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bright spot to re- pair to — and that was the "public soup house," maintained by the city government in the Grant Street police station, where pails of hot soup were ladled out to the needy. The ordinary workingman of the earlier days received low wages and as a rule lived near his place of employment

, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and

Anthracite Iron Blast Furnaces in Lancaster County 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Description Unlike the charcoal furnace, the anthracite furnace was a product of the age of steam power; indeed, it was a symbol of a whole new era in which the trinity of coal, iron, and steam

tons." �The Susquehanna Iron and Steel Corporation purchased the mill in 1898, after which it was operated as a unit of the corporation until 1905. The structure was razed about 1920." Chickies Rolling Mill Probably the smallest rolling mill in Lancaster County, the Chickies Rolling Mill, was built by

other fine stone or brick houses which remain, are only a small percentage of the houses that existed in this Colonial and Late 18th Century period; these being the exception rather than the typical house. Many people interested in this subject received their first information from reading the county

) Sealed envelope with “Mrs. J.D. Lindenmuth Antique Shop Stouchsburg, PA. Berks County” printed at top left. No date. Advertisement for “a special pattern bath-room rug” for sale(?) by Chas. R. & Grace M. Morris, Inc., Elizabeth, NJ. No date. Flyer for “Colorful muslin tapestry rugs, handwoven at New Hope

, roads, railroad, and city ordinances. Petitions support a candidate for night watchman, seek to repeal an ordinance for hanging signs and regulations for public scales, and request a reward for the apprehension of a murderer. There is an 1815 naturalization certificate for James Williams and a

to as the “Christiana Riot” occurred in September of 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania, a borough in Lancaster County. The events known as the Christiana Resistance include an attack from slaveholders in Maryland on the inhabitants and home of William Parker (1822), a free black living in Christiana