County, all of them using pig iron manufactured in anthracite iron blast furnaces. These anthracite iron works—furnaces and rolling mills—were located within a triangle formed by Lancaster City, Marietta, and Safe Harbor. In this iron triangle the greatest concentration of iron works was situated in the

"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

1976. Every civic, social, religious, historical and social organization of southern Lancaster County was requested to prepare some presentation lasting about 10 to 15 minutes. Each was to depict some historic event that occurred in or had an immediate effect upon southern Lancaster County. The

nearby Mill- ersville. It, too, had a pair of debating societies: Page and Normal. In those �50 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY days teachers' minds were expected to be cultivated and suitably embellished with thoughts so elevated that their pupils would develop an insatiable love for

Lan- caster County. They were worthy of the farm and the occasion. June 12, 1884.—The Club made its annual visit to Marietta on the 12th. At 10 A.M. they assembled at the Broad Street Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in the new, beautiful car of the Pres- ident reached their destination at 12

encouraging industry, particularly industry that used the products of the inland farmers. Late in 1727 Wright and most of the Chester County Quakers again were defeated by a resurgence of the Philadelphia mercantile elite. Wright found new problems to solve on the frontier of what was to become Lancaster

Development of Lutheran Congregations in Lancaster County By J. W. W. Loose 1. New Holland, Trinity, 1730 2. Denver, Muddy Creek, 1730 3. Brickerville, Emmanuel (Old Warwick), 1730 4. Lancaster, Holy Trinity, 1730 5. Ephrata, Bergstrasse, 1752 6. Strasburg, St. Michael's, 1754 7. Maytown, St

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

- missioners of the County of Lancaster, tender, and will donate, to the State of Pennsylvania a site for the erection of the proposed institution. The said site consists of a tract of land, belonging to the County of Lancaster, situated near the limits of the City of Lancaster, and containing about twenty

government in the 1730s was quite primitive. The only officials were constables, overseers of the poor, and supervisors of highways. In practice, Lancaster County's magistrates (or lay justices) were the only local government. With Lancaster being chosen for the county seat as anticipated by James Hamilton