- Author
- Wittlinger, Carlton O.
- Date of Publication
- 1958.
manufacture of whetstones at least as early as the 1780's. Samuel Bond and Com-
pany erected a whetstone manufactory in Lancaster about 1787. Their product, ad-
vertised as "The American Whetstone," was produced from a bluish rock forma-
tion found in the upper Susquehanna Valley. The favorable response of