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

The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: Rolling Mills 1850-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Desciption Although rolling mills had been used early in the nineteenth century for reducing the thickness of bar iron produced at the forges, rolling mills as a separate industry were

. Lancaster, Pa. York, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. First Continental Congress 5 September 1774 to 24 October 1774 (Under the English Crown) Second Continental Congress 10 May 1775 to 12 December 1776 20 December 1776 to 27 February 1777 4 March 1777 to 18 September 1777 27 September 1777 30 September 1777 to 27

gone the way of twelve-course dinners. Indeed, everything about Clio would appear anachro- nistic. Fortunately, as with many human efforts and institutions in Lancaster, appearances are deceiving. Clio is a remarkably youthful and peppery old lady at the age of one hundred. Probably she is healthier

1780, William Henry, who had distinguished himself as a patriot and manu- facturer of guns during the American Revolution, was commissioned "President of the Court of Common Pleas; Court of Quarter Sessions, Oyer, Terminer and General Jail Delivery; and of the Orphans' Court of Lancaster County."' �106

Development of Lutheran Congregations in Lancaster County By J. W. W. Loose 1. New Holland, Trinity, 1730 2. Denver, Muddy Creek, 1730 3. Brickerville, Emmanuel (Old Warwick), 1730 4. Lancaster, Holy Trinity, 1730 5. Ephrata, Bergstrasse, 1752 6. Strasburg, St. Michael's, 1754 7. Maytown, St

Edward Barnholt and William Wittick: Lancaster County's Fearless Constables By John W. W. Loose Law enforcement in Pennsylvania prior to the establishment of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1905' was left to the county sheriffs, constables, and police departments of those municipalities that had

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster

confirmed by the court of quarter sessions. In 1730 Andrew Hamilton and his son, James, began proceedings to acquire a large tract of land lying astride Lancaster and Manheim Townships. On a portion of this tract James Hamilton would lay out a town which he called Lancaster. During the following few years

and papers in the office of the Clerk of Quarter Sessions Court for Lancaster County revealed that petitions had been presented to the court beginning in the mid-1830's by numerous citi- zens of West Donegal, East Donegal, Mount Joy and Rapho townships, all seeking divisions of their townships into