ALONG THE STREETS OF OLD LANCASTER Vast changes in customs, manner and mode of living among the people residing along these streets of this colonial inland city of Lancaster have occurred over the passing years. There was music in the air — not from phonograph or radio — but from the street organ

Attorney to David Brookhard, a nephew, to make adjustments and collec- tions for the patent right. Brookhard was a descendant of the family which formerly resided in Lancaster or York County. A portion of the legal contract reads : "Know All Men by these presents, That whereas I the under- signed in the

grinding of various substances such as grain, flaxseed, and plaster, but also the sawing of lumber, the breaking of hemp and flax, and the carding of wool and cotton. So defined, the mill industries of Lancaster County prior to 1840 were both numerous and varied. The local sources include references to the

EARLY MANUFACTURING IN LANCASTER COUNTY: 1710-1840 (PART 3, CHAPTER V) METAL, LEATHER, AND WOOD CRAFTS FREDERICK HUBLEY , COPPERSMITH, in the Borough of Lan- caster, makes all sorts of COPPER and BRASS WARE, in the neatest and best manner . . . in Queenstreet Lancaster, viz. STILLS, brewers

manufacture of whetstones at least as early as the 1780's. Samuel Bond and Com- pany erected a whetstone manufactory in Lancaster about 1787. Their product, ad- vertised as "The American Whetstone," was produced from a bluish rock forma- tion found in the upper Susquehanna Valley. The favorable response of

Early Manufacturing In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1710 - 1840 Part I Carlton 0. Wittlinger Messiah Co.Jlege Grantham, Pa. Published as Volume 58, No. 6, of the Papers of the Lancaster County Historical Society �Table Of Contents l:E Chapter I The Natural Environment. Chapter II The People and

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return

GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1956 Compiled and Edited by M. Luther Heisey Jan. 1. With the Byrd Expedition to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic are two Lancaster sailors—Russell H. Rineer and Roland M. Campbell. Jan. 4. A loan of $7,670,000 was secured by the City of Lancaster Authority to be used