iron industry in Lancaster County between the Panic of 1837 and the Revulsion of 1884—The Anthracite Furnace Period. The ironmaster of this time more likely was a fairly modest businessman who was sufficiently adventurous to stake his or another person's fortune on the least stable industry, and who

Protectionism, Wages and Strikes in the Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose This article has been excerpted from the author's master's thesis completed in 1967 • The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County, Pa.: 1840-1900. During much of the

Marietta-West Hempfield Township-Columbia area.94 A major contribution of the anthracite iron industry to Lancaster County's cultural heritage was the attraction of many Welsh workers to �this area. Early in the eighteenth century numerous Welsh settlers from northern and central Chester County located in

sensitive to differences in quality and more responsive to changes in price!' The growth of the American economy resulted in increased rail and coke pig iron production, both oriented toward western Pennsylvania," and neither helpful to Lancaster County iron makers. The last anthracite furnace built in

March 1874, agreement to erect smelting fur- naces at mines of Lancaster County Mining Company. Company was headed by Daniel Herr, Edward J. Zahm, and Jacob Shenk- It would appear the original purpose was to have the Bamford Brothers erect the works for the local firm. Book 1-19-481. Charles Bamford's

County brewery. Our history begins with a tun and ends with a pun; it is the rise and decline of a once large industry in our midst. It seems almost incredible that brewing has never been the subject of a his­ torical essay concerning our industrial development. The authors would like to anticipate the

free from the cancer of vice and sin, the records of the Lancaster County Court state otherwise. Upright gentlemen of Lancaster could visit the towns along the Susquehanna River, but bawdyhouses were to be found scattered throughout the county. During the 1880s an effort was made in Lancaster to form a