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

, however, amount of bituminous coal consumed at Safe Harbor Rolling Mill in Convention of Iron Masters, op. cit., Appendix, Table 3. 12. The Columbia Spy, 2 February 1856; George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy, Centennial History of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company: 1846-1946 (Philadelphia, PA.: The

constable of years ago. 'Jacob Hay Brown, a native of York, Pennsylvania, was born 11 September 1849, the son of the Reverend James Allen and Mary E. Brown. The father was pastor of Zion Lutheran Church of York. After being graduated from Gettysburg College, Brown read law and established an office in

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

Society was formed, officers elected, committees ap- pointed, and plans made to obtain stock subscriptions. David G. Eshelman, an attorney, was elected president of the Society. Other officers were the Rev. Dr. J. Max Hark, minister of the Moravian Church, vice president; Dr. Henry Carpenter, physician

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