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

Philadelphia and meet at Lancaster, which they did on 27 September 1777. Their paths thither took a northern route, arching through Berks and Northampton counties to avoid any British patrols that might be lurking in central Chester County. Upon reaching Lancaster, members of the Congress discovered the town

(A short history presented by Dr. H. M. J. Klein for the 75th Anniversary Banquet) APPENDIX The Cliosophic Society of Lancaster Presidents Dr. Thomas Gilmore Apple, 1879-1898 The Rev. Dr. Emanuel Vogel Gerhart, 1898-1905 William Uhler Hensel, Esquire, 1905-1915 The Rev. Dr. George W. Richards, 1915

Col. James Duffy of Marietta Entertains the Farmers' Club, 1881-1888 by John Ward Willson. Loose Colonel James Duffy of Marietta amassed a comfortable fortune as a contractor, and he believed in being liberal to his fellow men. Few gentlemen in Lancaster County's "Gilded Age" entertained on so

justices of the peace to serve in any of the courts held within their respective counties. On 31 March 1777, nineteen justices of the peace were commissioned for Lancaster County, and all were given general commissions. Three or more of them were required to act in concert for trying cases. On 18 November

affiliated with the Lutheran Ministerium of Penn- sylvania until 1953 when all (excluding the Missouri Synod churches) except Lancaster's Holy Trinity Church became members of the General Pennsylvania Synod during a realignment. Later the Lancaster church joined the CP Synod. Many of the rural congregations

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

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