year hit the brave new enterprise, and in 1875 the mill was obliged to cease operations. About 1877 the mill re-opened, more furnaces were installed, and it was re-organized 14 "The Columbia Spy," July 14, 1860. 15 Ellis and Evans, History of Lancaster County, p. 307. �as the Penn Iron Co., with A. J

the furnace tract on 28 March 1857, to James and Henry McCormick, ironmasters of Dauphin County, and Charles Ross Grubb, iron manufacturer of Burlington, New Jersey, for $16,000.98 The Panic of 1857 and the resulting depression in the iron trade caused the furnace to be closed until 1863 when the

distressed citizens." Among the iron industries, Safe Harbor, Shawnee, Conestoga, and Henry Clay furnaces; and the Safe Harbor and Columbia rolling mills were closed." In capital investment and total wages paid, the iron industry ranked first in Lancaster County in 1860, and in second place for value of raw

Lead and Zinc Industry in Lancaster County by John W. W. Loose Lancaster's role in the lead and zinc industry is another piece of hidden history. Persons travelling the Old Harrisburg Pike or the newer highway (Route 283) between McGovernville and Landisville would never recognize the quiet little

, 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

Lancaster County. Many of these enter- prises are gone now. Flourmilling was the county's major dollar- producer in the mid-nineteenth century. Shoe and boot-making was another large industry that should be covered thoroughly. Political history never seems to seize control; it is content to be an old

A SURVEY OF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN PENNSYLVANIA Few problems cause more concern among county historical society officers than those of finance, and particularly, the matter of sufficient income. This is not surprising in view of the emphasis placed on the virtue of the fatted treasury. A

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

Wolf and James Dougherty, in 1838 were granted the first patent for a solid railroad car wheel casting. As the iron industry, both primary and secondary, that is, pig iron production and wrought iron shapes, and articles made from cast or wrought iron, developed in Lancaster County the interest in

to the crematorium: the Penn Iron Works, a rolling mill headed by A.J. Stein- man; and the Inquirer Printing Co., the largest job printing plant in Penn- sylvania (later to become the Wickersham Printing Co.). Political an- tagonists such as A.J. Steinman, W.U. Hensel, M.T. Garvin, and W.W. Griest

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was