using high-sulphur content coke." Anthracite and charcoal iron, because they were purer and less brittle, were preferred by foundries. Much of this objection to coke pig iron was removed after 1865; by 1872 more than one- third of the pig iron manufactured in the United States was smelted in coke

, however, amount of bituminous coal consumed at Safe Harbor Rolling Mill in Convention of Iron Masters, op. cit., Appendix, Table 3. 12. The Columbia Spy, 2 February 1856; George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy, Centennial History of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company: 1846-1946 (Philadelphia, PA.: The

borough, and several other communities had their own police depart- ments before World War II. Up to this time the constable usually was the principal law enforcement officer in most areas of Lancaster County. Most municipalities in Lancaster County now have police departments, and the Pennsylvania State

, THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA: Learning that your Honorable bodies contemplate passing an Act of Assembly to provide for the erection of a penitentiary for the confinement of criminals convicted in the central part of the State, we, the undersigned Com

bitterness made him a man dangerous to oppose and nearly impossible to love as a person. His sarcasm and waspish wit are unparalleled in American history. The failure of the Senate to convict President Johnson capped the bitterness of the aged congressman. He died in Washington, 11 August 1868. Back home in

through in pipelines that form a corridor under Salisbury Township. The shoe was on the other foot in the Civil War period when Lancaster Countians joined in the speculative rage for oil. In the 1864-1865 period no less than eight different companies were formed locally to drill wells, refine oil, and

of the Civil War after which he attend- ed Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University). Following his graduation he entered the famed Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his degree of doctor of medicine in 1870. He practiced for some years in Rohrerstown and

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