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economically. A patent was granted to him by the patent office at Washington on 19 December 1833, for "a new and useful improvement in the manufacture of iron and steel by the application of anthracite coal."" Three Lancaster County anthracite furnaces—Shawnee (1844), Chikis- walungo (1845), and Henry Clay

, 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

possible to analyze the patterns of housing characteristics for a part of Lan- caster County. We can therefore, establish what the common house was like in the last few years of the 18th Century and, what the differences were between urban and rural areas of the County. Hypothesis It has already been

, prisoners of war during the American Revolution. However, it is perhaps less well known that the barracks were already fifteen years old at the outbreak of the Revolution. The barracks were built by the Pennsylvania provincial government near the end of the French and Indian War in response to com- plaints

Bass Fishing in Lancaster County By John D. Long, Ph.D. As a "young man" of eighty years, I have two passions—I love to play tennis and I love to fish. I'm not as adept at either as I was at twenty, but I still get a thrill from a good volley and an equal charge from a bass strike. Let me tell you

combined membership of its sister institutions along the Susquehanna would be reason enough to scrutinize its historical development. A glimpse in the most comprehensive local history underscores the need to study Bethel. Ellis & Evans" History of Lancaster County (1883) 3 , although over 100 years old

. The Pennsylvania Archives, Series VI, vols. 12-13, provides the data on the confiscated estates. Those of Lancaster County follow: Jacob Boyer, Donegal Township, 87 acres, sold to Abraham Ream for 225 pounds in 1781. Nicholas Houssecker (Hunsecker?), Lebanon Township, house and lot, sold to William

census. Let us take them chronologically. The Gradual Abolition Act, as is well known, terminated slavery in Pennsylvania by subjecting slave off- spring born after 1780 to twenty-eight years of indentured servitude. The Act required owners to register their slaves and the children of their slaves with

, Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1942 edition (Lebanon, Pa.), p. 256. About The Contributor Stephen R. Herr wrote this brief history of his church when he was a member of the Buchanan Chapter of Student Historians in April 1981. Mr. Herr presently is a student at Gettysburg College. The