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The history of the gas and electric industries in Lancaster County

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Author
Barnes, Horace Richards.
Date of Publication
1948
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Part II—The Gas Industry in Lancaster County The first gas company to successfully operate in Lancaster County was The Lancaster Gas Company chartered April 7, 1849. A gas plant was built on land purchased in the southwestern part of the city of Lancaster near Hoffman's
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by Horace Richards Barnes.
Author
Barnes, Horace Richards.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1948
Physical Description
[101]-131 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 52, no. 5
Subjects
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company - History.
Lancaster Gas Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Lancaster (Pa.)
Electric utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Public utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Gas companies - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 52, number 5 (1948), p. 101-131Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.52
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Industrial progress and human welfare : the rise of the factory system in 19th century Lancaster

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Author
Winpenny, Thomas R.
Date of Publication
1982.
Call Number
670 W776
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Thomas R. Winpenny.
ISBN
0819126284 :
0819126292 (pbk.) :
Author
Winpenny, Thomas R.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
University Press of America,
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
x, 132 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"Thomas R. Winpenny examines the formative years of the factory system in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the impact of industrialization on the community.The study focuses on the establishment of the Conestoga Steam Mills in the late 1840's and the following three decades. Professor Winpenny maintains that this industrial revolution brought progress and economic benefits without social upheaval and labor strife...Lancaster was able to absorb the factory system without discord because of local circumstances such as the wealth of the countryside, the stability of the long-established town, and the ready supply of resident workers. In a narrower variation of Thomas C. Cochran's geo-cultural concept, Winpenny argues that the character of the industrialization experience is molded by local conditions and that problems often associated with industrial progress are rooted in the environment in which industrialization occurs." [from a review of the book by Robert M. Blackson, Kutztown State College]
Subjects
Bauman, Jeremiah.
James, Charles Tillinghast
Kautz, Jacob F.
Graham, Dana.
Black, John.
Cockley, David
Altick's (Daniel) Coach Works.
Shaffner and Graham's Comb Factory.
Carson and Kautz Brickyard.
Conestoga Steam Mills.
Lancaster Locomotive and Machine Manufacturing Company.
Leaman's Gun Works.
Best's Boiler Works.
Lancaster Gas Company.
Konigmacher and Bauman's Tannery.
Kirkpatrick's Foundry and Machine Shop.
Keeler Farm Equipment.
Factory system - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Cotton manufacture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Working class - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Geiger Furnace.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
670 W776
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