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There are few
pleasures greater than delving deep into a topic and setting my
thoughts to the pages of a book.
-- Brian L. Fritz
| Books Shade
Furnace: An Early 19th Century Ironmaking Community in
Somerset County, Pennsylvania - by
Brian L. Fritz
Published by the Historical and
Genealogical Society of Somerset County - 2016 The Scripture Rocks: Why Douglas Stahlman Carved His Legacy in Stone - by Brian L. Fritz and Kenneth Burkett 2015 Leadership in History Award, AASLH  Over the
past six years, volunteers from the Jefferson County History Center and
North Fork Chapter 29 of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology have
undertaken an extensive quest to relocate, map, and record the
Scripture Rocks carved by Douglas M. Stahlman from 1911 through 1915.The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides a historically accurate account of Douglas Stahlman's life (1861-1942), including his charismatic religious convictions, his politically charged insanity trial, and his obsessive behavior of carving biblical messages on hundreds of rocks while living impoverished in a little shanty built on top of his Altar Rock. Part 2 discusses how archaeologists with a group of dedicated community volunteers launched a systematic effort to find and record over 150 of Stahlman's rocks. Part 3 publishes for the first time 18 chapters of the Dedicated Rocks Book hand written by Douglas Stahlman in seven linen notebooks. Published by the Jefferson County Historical Society - 2014 Scripture Rocks web site Available at Amazon Journal Articles Sand Manufacturing in Western Pennsylvania: The Spring Creek Glass Sand Works - by Brian L. Fritz and Jason Espino  The
Spring Creek Glass Sand Works site (36FO93) represents the ruins of a
sandstone quarry and sand manufacturing enterprise that operated from
1914 through 1926 in the Spring Creek Valley of Forest County,
Pennsylvania. An archaeological survey of the extant ruins was used to
generate detailed maps of the quarry complex, a gravity-powered incline
plane, and the sand manufacturing facility. Technological changes in
the quarry operation were evaluated through comparisons between
historical descriptions of the Spring Creek works and the physical
evidence documented by the field investigation. Estimates of the sand
works’ annual production and its relative financial success are
discussed. The sand works site represents underrecognized contributions
to the intensive industrial development of the forested regions of
northwestern Pennsylvania.Published by The Journal for the Society for Industrial Archaeology, Vol. 41 Nos. 1-2, 2015 |