railroads reached to all the furnaces after 1877.39 Transportation The Pennsylvania State Works Canal linked northern and western Pennsylvania to Marietta and Columbia in 1830; its usefulness was in- creased in 1834 with the construction of the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad which terminated at the

anthracite fuel in its puddling furnaces.11 Availability of bituminous coal and coke from western Pennsylvania at Lancaster, Columbia and Marietta suggests the possibility of their use in puddling furnaces in Lancaster County after the Pennsylvania Railroad was completed across the state in 1854. 12 In fact

"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and

Bloody Dawn A play by John W. W. Loose During Lancaster County's observance of the Republic's bicentennial of the American Revolution, the Quarryville Chamber of Commerce with the enthusiastic approval of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee decided to stage a gala event on Saturday, 26 June

warehouse on 8 January 1946, causing irritating smoke to waft through the Iris Club, but barely disturbing Dean Sanders P. McComsey as he essayed on American journalism to an obligato of fire sirens and alarm bells. �VOLUME 96, NUMBER 2, 1994 53 Clio's second season, 1880-1881, explored new territory that

.' When William Penn drafted his "frames of government" for Pennsylvania, the English system was adopted, lock, stock, and barrel. County courts were established with justices of the peace holding sessions quarterly (hence "quarter sessions of the peace court"). Not only summary offenses, misdemeanors

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

had run its course, and the "untitled" boss of the Republicans (William W. Griest) had died. Warren T. Metzger, Republican, defeated William Raub, Democrat. The election of 1933 came during the year the New Deal was sweeping the nation, and James H. Ross, a staunch supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt