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

, intelligence, and persistence to be first- rate detectives; and then having located their criminal suspects, appre- hended them and put them behind bars, often at great risk to their own lives. Several of the most remarkable Lancaster County constables were Edward Barnholt and William Wittick. Both lawmen were

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

The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform

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

Protectionism, Wages and Strikes in the Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose This article has been excerpted from the author's master's thesis completed in 1967 • The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County, Pa.: 1840-1900. During much of the

Tinkerers, Mechanics and Inventors of Lancaster County By John Ward Willson Loose A few caveats are in order. My essay is not an "in depth" study of each and every tinkerer, mechanic and inventor that ever worked in Lancaster County, nor does it attempt to single out every person who contributed in

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and