History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 180

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372

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In 1907 the Lutheran congregation which worshipped in the Union church purchased from the Reformed congregation all the rights and interests it possessed in the large number of comfortable homes and church, and the land jointly owned by the fine residences. Midway between Beard's two congregations.

The Reformed congregation purchased one acre of land a short distance west of the original site and upon it, during the summer of 1907, erected a beautiful brick church edifice at a cost of about $10,000. The building committee was composed of Nathaniel Fake, John- Blessing, Jacob H. Leber and Henry Paules. Both congrega- tions have erected chapels for the use of the Sunday Schools.

tannery and Yorkana is the site of Kauf- felt's store. This place for nearly a hundred years, went by that name, and was a centre of interest and importance in the township for more than a century. The vicinity of Kauffelt's Store was a noted place for mili- tary companies and battalions to parade under the militia laws of Pennsylvania. This store changed hands, and the mercan- tile business was afterward conducted by J. B. Budding & Brother.

Presbyterian Church.

The Margaretta Presby- Early in the nineteenth century two men, terian Church stood near one named Miller and the other Jacobs, the historic old furnace for each planted a town here. One place was thirty years. It was a plain called Millerstown and the other Jacobs-

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town. Miller succeeded in selling a few

A Lutheran church was recently erected lots, and a small collection of houses in the at Yorkana. Rev. Stauffer was pastor in vicinity was for many years given the 1907. name of Millersville. About 1880, the name of Yorkana was given to it.

Craleyville is an interesting village of about 500 inhabitants in the southeastern part of this township. The cigar making industry has been carried on successfully. J. W. Reichard owns a tobacco warehouse in the village and purchases a large amount of tobacco grown in the surrounding country.

Bittersville lies in the southern part of the township near the Chanceford line. It is the terminus of the trolley line from York, a distance of twelve miles.

The early settlers of this valley attended Delroy is the name of a postoffice a short distance west of Yorkana A store has Fauth. services at the Lutheran and Reformed Church. About 1830, the doctrines of the been kept here for many years by Acquilla Evangelical Association were preached by some of the early clergymen of that de- Large iron works were situ- nomination. It resulted in the establish- Margaretta ated in Lower Windsor ment of a church in the vicinity of Yorkana, when a building was erected. This build- ing stood until 1867, when a comfortable frame structure was erected. The first trustees were Joshua Heindel and Philip Mitzel. When the Evangelical Association became two religious bodies, this church as well as all others in this and adjoining townships formed a part of the United Evangelical Church to which they have since belonged. This denomination has a large membership in Windsor and Lower Windsor Townships. A fine church edifice was erected at Yorkana several years ago at a cost of $8,000. In 1907 Rev. W. N. Fulcomer was pastor. He also preached at Mount Pisgah.

Furnace. Township, near where the borough of East Prospect now stands. The furnace was built by Samuel Slaymaker, of Lancaster, in 1823, and put into operation in 1825. Soon after com- pletion, his nephews, Henry Y. and Samuel Slaymaker, succeeded in the ownership and began a large business. A good quality of ore, in the immediate vicinity, was used and pig iron made. A foundry was built, and in 1828 Woodstock Forge was erected about one and a half miles farther east on the Cabin Branch Creek. At the foundry, a large number of ten-plate stoves were made, iron kettles, skillets and various kinds of hollow ware. This was a charcoal fur- nace and the wood obtained from the sur- rounding country. An extensive business was done, and many acres of valuable wood- land were soon stripped of their chestnut timber. About 8,000 cords were consumed

The Yorkana Campmeeting is held an- nually in a beautiful grove owned by the late Hon. Gerard C. Brown. It is always largely attended by people from the eastern part of York County and by most of the annually. John E. Beard, afterward county clergymen of the Conference.

commissioner, and his brother Henry, to-

In 1907 the Star Cigar Company, com- gether hauled 14,000 cords, in five succes- posed of Alexander Dietz and Amos W. sive years, to Margaretta Furnace. At one Dietz; Yorkana Cigar Company, composed time the furnace property owned 1,900 of Charles Leber and Edward Leik; C. S. acres. Much of the timber was obtained Gable and J. W. Horn operated cigar fac- from the land of other owners, and some tories at Yorkana. R. T. Paules and Wil- of the ore was gotten near York.

liam H. Kauffman conducted stores. Dr.

These iron works were in operation about Samuel I. McDowell practiced medicine nine months of the year. Each week, and Dr. F. S. Shue was the veterinary sur- geon.

thirty tons of iron were made, or about 1, 100 tons annually. Samuel Slaymaker

In October 1818, the Harrisburg Repub- lican advertised fourteen lots in Jacobs- town, and forty lots and ten outlots in Mil- lerstown to be sold for the direct tax of 1816, which had not been paid by the non- resident owners. Both of these men upon laying out their towns had disposed of the lots by lottery. This plan of originating a town was very common about the year 1812, and a few years later.

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moved to York, and purchased an interest in a furnace west of the Codorus. Henry Y. Slaymaker conducted the business alone James Curran's bank, one mile south of the furnace, was opened by Eckert & Guil- ford about 1840, and worked after them in in Lower Windsor for a number of years order by George Heindel, John Givens and and built a large mansion. In 1840 he James Curran.

sor Township. He was popular with his employees, but the "fates were not pro- pitious" with him, and the business did not bring in the needed revenue to keep it going. He failed in 1843, and soon afterward moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he died a highly respected citizen. Judge Patterson, of Lancaster, was married to his daughter.

The works were again started by some of the leading employees, among whom were James Curran and Connelly, and Dr. Barton Evans, of Wrightsville. William H. Kurtz, John G. Campbell, James Curran and Dr. Evans formed a co-partnership until 1847. Israel Gardner and Franklin Wright at one time owned the furnace until the property finally passed into the hands of W. D. Himes, of New Oxford.

tion was procured by leading the ignited gases from the tunnel head beneath the boilers. The foundry iron made from a small vein of ore found in Lower Wind- sor at one time sold for $55 a ton. The for many years and improved by John H. liam Burg.

Slaymaker mansion and farm were owned on lands later owned by Samuel and Wil- Small of York. Recently they were pur- chased by L. E. Oleweiler.

The Wrightsville Iron Com-

Iron Ore pany, and later Skiles & Fry, of Lancaster, obtained considerable Interests. lump ore on George Keller's farm two and one-half miles north of East Prospect. The same firm worked Daniel Leber's bank nearby.

John Small's bank near Margaretta, was opened by Samuel Slaymaker. Lump and wash ore were about equal in proportion at this bank.

John Keller's bank, northwest of Mar- garetta, was opened by its owner, and 1,000 tons obtained during the six months it was operated.

The ore was a shelly owned 2,821 acres of land in Lower Wind- limonite.

Barcroft's bank two miles northwest of the furnace was opened by Henry Y. Slay- maker, in 1840, and later leased to Mr. Eagle of Marietta. The ore obtained was of plate-like structure, hard, flinty and tenacious. Musselman & Watts worked this bank for some time and obtained 19,- 000 tons of ore, which contained thirty- three and one-third per cent metallic iron. Barley's bank one mile west was opened about 1867, and worked two years. In all several hundred thousand tons of ore were obtained in Lower Windsor from 1830 to 1890.

In Lower Windsor Township

Schools. there are fifteen schools with the following names: Wills', Bitters- ville, Wrightsville, Benson's, Canadochly, Craley, Martinsville, Furnace, Brenne- man's, Fitzkee's, Yorkana, Kline's, Nei- man's, Pikes Peak, Long Level.

The ores obtained from the banks near this furnace were limonite, turgite and iron hydrates generally, and contained forty-five per cent of metallic iron. Charcoal was The population of Lower Windsor in 1840 was 1,687; 1850, 1,923; 1860, 2,162; used at the furnace for the reduction of these ores, and the heat for steam genera- 1870, 2,429; 1880, 2,538; 1890, 2,764; 1900, 2,649.

Cabin Branch received its

Interesting name from the fact that the

Notes. Indians built cabins along its banks near the Susquehanna,

The Wrightsville and Chanceford Turn- pike, five miles in length, starts at the for- mer place, and extends across portions of Hellam and Lower Windsor. The charter of this road was granted in 1881 to the com- pany with permission to extend it to Brogueville.

The foundry owned by David Wood- mansee, was located about two and one- half miles from East Prospect. A pros- perous business was at one time done here. He became the first chief burgess of East Prospect.

About the time when Margaretta Fur- nace was in its prospertiy, a store was started at this place by John Keyser. who kept it six years, and was succeeded by

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' David Hengst, who afterward moved to Wright's Ferry, the account of which is Freeport, Illinois. The next proprietor told in the chapter on Border Troubles, was John Pentz, who remained eighteen page 58. The stone house was owned for years, and was followed by Reuben A. a long time by the Dritt family and in 1907 Paules, who kept it for many years.

The houses formerly owned by the pro- prietors of Woodstock Forge, and occupied by workmen, are owned by different in- dividuals. There is an interesting hamlet surrounding this place.

Anstine's Fulling Mill was one of the early industries of Lower Windsor.

On Sunday, November 6, 1819, the corn and gig house of John Dritt, of this town- ship, was destroyed by fire. A gig and 1,000 bushels of corn were burned.

Beard's Tannery, just beyond the stream called the head of Kreutz Creek, on the road from York to East Prospect, for nearly a century was a prominent industry in this township. It was started about 1800 by Daniel Hengst, of whom Frederick Burg purchased it and conducted the business until he sold it to Joseph Beard. In 1836, John E. Beard embarked in the business and continued nearly forty years. Frank and Harry Beard, his sons, succeeded him in the ownership of the tannery. The bark used was obtained in the adjoining woods.

About one and a half miles northeast of the borough of East Prospect stands an historic stone mansion built in 1758. The property in early days was owned by George Stevenson, an agent of the Penns who came to York as the keeper of the records in 1749 when York County was formed. Soon after the Revolution, the large house and the adjoining plantation were owned and occupied by Captain Jacob Dritt, a story of whose life is found on page 187. He engaged in the wine and liquor trade and had his products floated down the Susquehanna in arks or keel-boats. The basement of this large building was used as a wine cellar for many years. On ac- count of its massive walls built for the pur- pose of being a secure place to store Cap- tain Dritt's merchandise, this cellar was at one time believed to have been the site of a fort erected in 1735 by Col. Thomas Cresap, a leader of the Maryland intruders. It was The township at present is one of the most fertile and productive in the county. in that year that Colonel Cresap erected a log house near the banks of the Susque- It contains very little woodland, and no hanna, four and a half miles south of waste land. The northern part is within

was the property of Barton Gnau. A short distance south stood another historic build- ing also owned by the Dritt family more than a century ago.

MANCHESTER AND EAST MAN- CHESTER TOWNSHIPS.

Manchester Township was laid out under the authority of the Lancaster County Court in 1742, by Thomas Cookson, deputy sur- veyor, and his assistant. The original boundaries of the township were not clearly defined. Land as far west as the Bermu- dian Creek, was taken up within the limits of Manchester Township. After 1748 its area was confined to its present territory, and that of West Manchester and East Manchester Townships. It then contained possibly 300 inhabitants, a number of cleared and cultivated tracts, and here and there a few Indian wigwams. The native forests were a dense growth of oak, chest- nut, hickory, ash and other trees. Its length was fifteen miles and its breadth four and a half miles, with the "Great Conewago and Little Conewago" as its northwestern, the Codorus as its southeastern and the broad Susquehanna as its eastern boundary, thus being almost surrounded by water. Newberry and Dover townships were north, and Hellam and Spring Garden, south of it. The first settlers in the northern part of the township were English Quakers, but the greater portion was settled by German im- migrants, who soon became thrifty farmers. In 1783, Manchester Township contained 267 houses, 218 barns, 21 mills, small and large; 10 negro slaves, 3 redemptioners ; 1,465 inhabitants and 29,723 acres not vacant. The northern boundary of Spring- ettsbury Manor passed nearly through the centre of the original township, south of the fortieth parallel of north latitude, which crosses the county a short distance south of Emigsville. The township of West Manchester was laid out in 1799, and East Manchester in 1887.

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the mesozoic sandstone region and the southern part in the limestone belt. Cereals of different kinds grow abundant crops. For many years fine tobacco has been raised in large quantities in the eastern part of the township.

The following is a complete list of the taxable residents of Man-

of 1783. chester which included West Manchester and East Manches- ter, in 1783:

Philip Amend,

Gerard Gavite,

Reinhardt Bott,

Andrew Grass,

Henry Kreber,

Peter Senger,

Jonas Bott,

John Greybill,

Christian Landis,

Philip Snyder,

Abraham Bookhard,

Jacob Gottwaldt, Jr.

Anthony Lehman,

Peter Snyder,

Michael Bentz,

Samuel Gross,

Michael Low,

Adam Schenk,

Daniel Bekemer,

George Geiss,

Leonard Leckron,

John Stab,

Conrad Becker, Christopher . Greenewald,

Isaac Brenneman,

Michael Ginder,

John Sherb, Sr.,

James Britches,

Jacob Gottwaldt, Sr.

John Sherb, Jr.,

Andrew Bedman,

Jacob Gardner,

Andrew Long, Christian Leib

James Spikeman,

Jacob Brown,

Hermanns Guikes,

George Leibenstein,

Jacob Smyser,

Valentine Bohn,

David Grier, Esq.,

Casper Lichtenberger,

Michael Sprenkle,

George Bumbach,

Philip Heltzel,

George Lewis Leffler,

Ambrose Updegraff,

Julius Burkhardt,

Barnet Holtzapple,

Ludwig Myer,

Nathan Updegraff,

William Burns,

Andrew Hentz,

Frederick Miller,

Joseph Updegraff,

Philip Benedict,

Erasmus Holtzapple,

James Berden,

Emanuel Harman,

George May,

Francis Worley,

Nicholas Deh,

Christian Heiver,

George Millen,

Henry Wolf,

Andrew Dabber,

George Hake, Esq.,

Michael Melhorn,

Michael Welsh,

Thomas Dunn,

Andrew Heak,

John Miller,

George Weller,

Michael Driver,

Jacob Heak,

George Metzger, Samuel Miller,

James Worley.

Widow Doudel,

Jacob Hahn,

Nicholas Moore,

Daniel Worley,

John Deltmer,

Frederick Hoffman,

Adam Miller,

Francis Worley,

Peter Dinkel,

Jacob Heikler,

Charles Martin,

William Willis,

Frederick Eichelberger,

Michael Hahn, Esq.,

Jacob Kopp,

Jacob Worley,

Michael Ebert,

Ludwig Heetig,

Michael Klein,

Peter Wolf, Esq.,

George Eyster,

Christian Harman,

Nicholas Klasser,

Nicholas Wyand,

Elias Eyster, Jolın Emig, Sr.,

Peter Hoke,

Casper Knaab,

Philip Wolf,

Valentine Emig,

George Heihler,

George Nailor,

Sebastian Weigle,

George Eisenhart,

Christian Heit,

Jacob Neaf,

Simon Witmeyer, Sr.,

Conrad Entzminger,

John Heit,

Abraham Neaf,

Simon Witmeyer, Jr.,

Philip Ettinger,

Philip Hoffman.

Jacob Oettinger,

Martin Weikle,

Peter Elenberger,

Col. Thomas Hartley, Esq.,

Peter Oettinger,

Leonard Weikle,

Jacob Ehrman,

George Ilgenfritz,

John Oettinger, Henry Ort,

Michael Witterricht, Philip Wintemeyer,

Philip Ebert.

Jacob Jonathan,

Adam Quickel,

Jacob Weaver,

Widow Eichelberger,

Robert Jones, Sr.,

Frederick Remer;

Casper Walter,

John Emig, Jr.,

Robert Jones, Jr.,

Dietrich Rupert,

Jacob Wagnor,

Michael Egy,

Francis Jones,

Stephan Reitinger,

Adam Wilt,

Michael Finfrock,

James Johnston,

Michael Romig,

George Welsh,

Godlieb Fackler,

Elisha Kirk,

Andrew Ritter,

Henry Winiger,

Jacob Fied,

Caleb Kirk,

Jost Wahl,

John Fetter,

Valentine Krantz,

Frederick Wever,

Peter Faust,

John Kauffman, Jr.,

John Reif,

Valentine Wild,

George Frier, George Fry,

Godfry King,

John Roth,

Jacob Zigler,

Stephan Finfrock,

Casper Kerver,

John Rosenbaum,

Philip Zeigler, Jr.,

Joseph Grebill,

Philip Kreber,

George Ringer, Michael Ringer,

Killian Ziegler.

Dewald Gross,

Matthias Klein.

Jacob Kauffman,

Simon Koppenheafer, Jr.,

Jacob Klingeman,

Jacob Philip King,

Peter Sprenkle,

Jacob Knab,

George Sprenkle,

Simon Coppenheafer, Sr., Conrad Klein,

Henry Kauffman,

Christian Keller,

Andrew Smith, Sr.,

John Kitch,

Michael Kilb,

Daniel Strickler,

Valentine Kohlman,

Peter Shultz,

Peter Knaub,

Peter Smith,

Baltzer Kohler,

Michael Shreiver,

George Krantz,

John Shreiber,

George Klingman,

Jacob Smith,

Jacob Kern,

Jacob Smith,

· Andrew Kohler,

(Tory lawyer)

John Brown, Henry Gray,

Ignatius Leitner,

Frederick Lenhardt,

Peter Long,

Henry Shultz,

Widow. Beirly,

John Guikes,

Kilian Lichtenberger,

Col. Michael Smyser,

Nicholas Bahn,

Philip Heckert,

George Lichtenberger,

Samuel Updegraff,

Joseph Bixler,

Nicholas Hentz,

Peter Marks, Peter Menges,

Widow Wogan, John Welsh,

Widow Cronmiller,

Andrew Hershy,

John Croll,

Jost Herbach,

George Maurer,

Nathan Worley,

Michael Doudel,

John Humrichhauser,

Henry Klein,

Adam Wolf,

George Witterricht,

Michael Ebert, Jr.,

Martin Ilgenfritz,

Martin Ebert,

George Irwin,

Jacob Opp,

Jonas Rudisilly, William Reis,

John Kauffman, Sr.,

Anthony Roth,

Henry Walter,

Frederick Fleker,

Henry Keifer,

Baltzer Rudisilly, Peter Riel, Isaac Stoner,

Mathias Smeiser, John Shrom, Christopher Shlegle,

Andrew Smith, Jr.,

Tax List

Andrew Hoke,

John Updegraff,

Frederick Shindel,

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SINGLE MEN.

John Oldham, David Bruckhard,

John Kann (blacksmith),

Philip Mohr,

Christian Reinhart,

Christian Mohr,

George Menges,

Andrew Kohler,

Philip Christ,

Jacob Bohn,

Andrew Ziegler,

Conrad Ginder,

Daniel Meyer,

Jacob Miller,

George Leckron,

Frederick Ehresman,

Michael Kauffman,

Jacob Ginder,

Martin Koppenhefer,

Ludwig Driver,

John Brown,

Frederick Shindle,

Frederick Heak,

Frederick Hummel,

Jacob Miller,

Jacob Meisel,

Adam Lichtenberger,

Joseph Kohler,

Nicholas Snyder,

The population of Manchester in 1820 was 1,949; in 1830, 2,198; 1840, 2,152; 1850, 2,591 ; 1860, 2,695; 1870, 2,427; 1880, 2,636; 1890, 1,783; 1900, 1,556.

East In the year 1885 the citizens of Manchester Township be- Manchester. gan to consider the question of dividing it. On November 22, 1886, in answer to a petition signed by a large number of citizens the county court appointed Wendall Gross, George Weaver and Daniel Brown commissioners to ex- amine into the advisability of forming a new township. The commissioners re- ported favorably and their report was con- firmed by the court January 8, 1887. The new township was named East Man- chester.

On the 29th of February, 1822, Schools.

Hoover's Philip Hoover and Peter

Church. Hoover deeded forty-four perches of land for a considera- tion of $1, to Martin Rudy, Michael Bixler, elders and trustees of the German Reformed congregation, and Peter Moore and Valen- tine Schultz, elders and trustees of the Lu- theran congregation. On this land had already been erected a house of worship called "Christ's Church," in which by spe- cial requirements the services were to be held in the "German language and no other ; to be used by the German Reformed and German Lutheran congregations, and a Society called Maniests." All services in the church were to be held "before candle light." The church is situated on one of the landmarks of Manchester Township, now in the village of Starview, two miles southeast of Mt. Wolf. It is known as "Hoover's Church." The exact time when the first log church was built is not definitely known, though supposed to be in

1819. The present house of worship which cost $2,200 was built in 1875. The building committee were Jacob Hartman and John King, Reformed; Harris Gingerich and John Fry, Lutherans. A charter was ob- tained in 1844. Andrew Dessenberg and Jacob Fry of the Lutheran, and Christian Hartman of the Reformed congregation were trustees. Samuel Rudy was one of the first deacons of this church.

Lewis Mayer, James R. Reiley, John Cares, David Bossler, Daniel Zeigler, Rhinehart Smith, A. Wanner, Aaron Spang- ler, Arthur C. Ohl, and Irwin S. Ditzler of the Reformed church have officiated here.

The Lutheran congregation was served by Rev. C. J. Deininger from 1858 to 1866. Other pastors since have been P. Wanner, Peter Anstadt, E. Lenhart, W. S. Porr, and S. E. Herring. The church was remodelled in 1885 at a cost of $1,300. There is a Union. Sunday School connected with the church. A school house stood by the side of the first building and a parochial school kept in it for many years.

Jerusalem Church is situated between Mt. Wolf and New Holland, and was built about 1880, on land donated to the congre- gation by John Dessenberg. It was once burned and immediately rebuilt.

Before the public school system was accepted in Manchester a local plan was adopted and so- called "free schools" were established. They did not however, afford equal privi- leges to all classes. The poorer children were neglected. Several attempts were made by enterprising citizens to secure enough votes to accept the system under the provision of the act of 1834, but all such efforts were unsuccessful. The legislative act of 1848, which virtually recognized that every district in the state had accepted the system, brought Manchester into the ranks. At the spring election of 1849 which was then at Ludwig Kohr's Hotel, near Emigs- ville, the system was accepted, and Daniel Rodes, Henry Metzgar, George Matthias, John Emig, Dr. Adam Eisenhart and An- drew Lightner were elected directors. It was largely through the efforts of Daniel Rodes that the organization of the schools on the present basis was then effected. The conflict that arose was typical of what took place in some other townships, especially

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in the German sections, where many people Holland, River Hill, Strayer's, Sipes', Jeru- were averse to accepting the common salem, Starview, Brillinger's, Bashore and Mt. Wolf. schools, and preferred the subscription or parochial schools. Many in fact, preferred In 1804 Frederick Day, an En- New glish Quaker, made a plat of a shorter term than the law then required. A conflict arose when the directors met to organize in the town of Liverpool, now Manchester Borough. A large number of people assembled. Most of them came for the purpose of presenting objections to the plans. After some of the directors con- ferred, all except two determined to resign. Daniel Rodes, who was president, then read the law, which gave that officer the power to appoint any persons he selected to fill the vacancies, which resulted in hold- ing the board together. At this juncture, Jacob Kirk of Fairview, who afterward be- came the first county superintendent of schools, happened along on his way to York. He was an ardent advocate of the system which had been in force in his town- ship for fourteen years. He argued in its favor from experience as a director and a teacher. The board then went into execu- tive session and laid a small tax. John Bower was appointed tax collector. His

duty was not a pleasant one. In some cases he was obliged to levy on personal property in order to collect the tax, so vio- lent was the opposition. In one or two instances a horse was sold. Eleven schools were put into successful operation and the state appropriation, $100, received. The Mennonite church was rented. One school Adam Wolf was for many years a promi- house in the township could not be rented. . nent justice of the peace, and had a large A house was built at Foustown. Augen- lumber yard and tannery at New Holland. Frederick Gable kept a store and owned a lumber yard. Joseph Schmidt also had a lumber yard. There were at one time four hotels in the town. Silver Lake Island a famous place for shad fishing years ago is located on the Susquehanna, near New Hol- land. The population of New Holland in 1907 was 400. In the early part of the cen- tury, it was supposed that New Holland was destined to become large, but its lum- ber interests ceased after the Northern Cen- tral Railway was completed in 1851. The cigar business is an important industry here. baugh's meeting house was rented, as was also a Methodist meeting house at New Holland. The rest were opened in such houses as could be obtained. The system soon proved a success. One of the most singular features of this history, was that the president of the board was publicly rep- rimanded by his fellow church members, and an effort made to have his name stricken from the church roll, on account of the interest he took to advance the cause of education. A faithful pastor came to his rescue and prevented action.

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History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 180

Author: Prowell, George R. Publication date: 1907 Publisher: J. H. Beers Number of Pages: 1372

Author: Prowell, George R.
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: J. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1372