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County; the Caernarvon ore deposits were mined for iron works in Berks and Chester counties." Geologists and iron manufacturers preferred the ores from the banks and mines situated along the slope east of Marietta to Silver Spring, to those located in the southern portion of the county. Most of 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

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

enough to try fishing the mighty Susquehanna River at Washington Boro. Fishing from shore was not attractive since at that time (1920) coal dust filled the river and created bars at many locations along the Lancaster County shore. The fine coal came from the anthracite mines of Carbon County near Wilkes

generically as "Valley" in Chester County (see above map). The constellation of A.M.E. churches throughout Lancaster and neighboring counties to the East, North, and West raises a hypothetical situation which, until more information has been gathered, can only be a matter for speculation. Tradition and

indiscreet as to make remarks favoring the British Crown was confiscated; occasionally excited mobs destroyed buildings belonging to such persons. And there were times when the safety of those persons was put in grave danger. The least that might happen was social ostracism extending even to business

may have known each other in Virginia. Like their predecessors the Hanover County Blacks found shelter and hospitality in Columbia. They were briefly housed near the Lamb Tavern on Locust Street; then, as Evans reports, they also found homes near those of the Henrico County immigrants.17 These two

serve a large parish in rural Berks County the Rohrerstown congregation faced numerous periods without the services of a regular pastor.' In July 1931 the Rohrerstown church was joined to the Ascension Lutheran Church in Lancaster to receive the joint attention of the Rev. R. Frank Herr. This

streets exhibit strong unity of scale and "the overall character is that of a solid, forthright, and relatively intact Victorian working-class neighborhood."' The hard-working Ger- mans of the Hill retain, even today, ancestral customs like cultivating backyard cabbage for homemade sauerkraut. The process