reigned supreme. Although charcoal was practically the only fuel used to any extent for smelting iron ore prior to 1840, and few innovations were made in the designs of blast furnaces and their auxiliary equipment in more than a century, some of the later charcoal furnaces were larger and produced more

Marietta-West Hempfield Township-Columbia area.94 A major contribution of the anthracite iron industry to Lancaster County's cultural heritage was the attraction of many Welsh workers to �this area. Early in the eighteenth century numerous Welsh settlers from northern and central Chester County located in

to those of a sheriff. The constable also is an ancient office. As late as the fifteenth century English constables (not to be confused with the modern British police officer) had nearly unlimited powers granted by the king. Very early the constable was in charge of the kingdom's defense and provost

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

minutes according to size and condition. The process is described by Dr. Davis: Cremation, as practiced at the Lancaster Crematorium, consists essential- ly of two elements—the first being mechanical and the second chemical. The first of these processes begins in a small room, known as the preparing room

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

manufacturers were learning to use the language of Jeffersonian agrarianism they could not hope to rival the in- fluence of rural leaders.6 A history of the political leadership of Lancaster County during the nineteenth century is yet to be written; nevertheless, rural domination of the local political scene