I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the

, seven and one-half feet across the bosh. In 1847, produced 1,380 tons. Blown out in 1857 but not abandoned till 1863. �15 Black Fox Furnace, 1844, steam hot blast. Stood on Black Fox Run in Perry Township, one mile from the Allegheny River. Thirty feet high, nine feet across bosh. In 1856, made 2,000

and government--1775-1783. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 101-103 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

which they granted and conveyed to Thomas and Richard Penn, practically comprising the greater part of the present Territory of the State of Pennsylvania, described by natural boun- daries such as the Ohio River on the West and the Delaware on the East, the slopes of certain ranges of mountains, etc

THE STORY OF SH ULTZ'S MILL ON BEAVER CREEK By Herbert H. Beck The artificial structure of an inhabited region like Lancaster County is primarily determined by its natural topography and its drainage—by surface conditions chiseled out by the geological hand of long past centuries. Thus it is that