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

slow to develop until the era of anthracite coal iron furnaces. Whereas bloomery forges usually made iron blooms directly from ore and fuel, and then hammered the iron into bars or plates, the rolling mills after 1840 depended upon pig iron, especially that cast at anthracite furnaces.1 Charcoal iron

been applied to a local savings bank, a chapter of Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity, and the labels of a well-known beer brewed in Pottsville. This would be amusing and hardly worthy of serious notice if it were not accepted as fact by many students. From the days of the First

Evolution of the Government of Lancaster: Village, Borough, City By John W" W" Loose, F"L.C"H"S" For the first dozen years of its existence Lancaster did not have a governing body of its own. Lancaster County's original townships were defined by the magistrates and citizens 9 June 1729, and were

A History of Sin and Vice: Lancaster—The Fallen Angel By John W. W. Loose, FLCHS in a community remarkable for its many churches and the reputed piety of its citizenry, the very thought of sin and vice is improbable. In this time of social disintegration and family dysfunction, it is not uncommon