make merchant bar and rods." Inasmuch as the members of the firm were local businessmen without much iron experience, James A. Richards was employed to manage the mill. One year later, the firm was advertising itself as Smith, Richards and Company." In operation only thirty-four weeks in 1856, the mill

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

Pennsylvania Hall of Fame evoked a small storm of protest. Numerous telephone calls and letters— many anonymous—to this speaker is sufficient evidence to demonstrate the effect Stevens had on the history of our nation. Though dead for 106 years, the "Old Commoner" continues to inflame men and create

calculated to break down the likely prejudices of the town folk. Within a year the Society had fifty-nine stockholders among whom were the city's most prominent citizens. �Robert M. Agnew, Esq., attorney Dr. William N. Amer, dentist Dr. James E. Baker, physician J.J.F. Ball Dr. Walter Boardman, physician D.B

northwest corner of what is now North Duke and East Walnut streets, Lan- caster, now the site of First United Methodist Church, no detailed description of the facility has been available until recently. Mr. Albert G. Overton, Florissant, Missouri, discovered a scaled plan of the barracks drawn in 1777 by

, The Triumph of Militant Republicanism, A Study of Pennsyl- vania Politics: 1860-1872 (Philadelphia, Pa.: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964), p. 206. 12. Frank W. Taussig, The Tariff History of the United States (New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), pp. 178-179. 13. The Columbia Spy, 29

making church furniture soon earned him fame around the Commonwealth. He was commissioned next to build a 25-foot high altar for St. August's Church in Pittsburgh. His first invention was a set of extension steps for fortifications, and the idea was stolen immediately by an Englishman. Out of the High