Every now and then I do a post to the list about projects I am working on hoping someone out there may have some information to pass along. I am working on the first [chronologically ] of three books dealing with the industrial past of Greensburg and Hempfield Township. The second and third books have already been published. The present book deals with local industry before the building of the Pennsylvania Railroad [circa 1850] . Truth to tell, much of local production at that time was what we would call a cottage industry. One of the surprising things that this project has turned up is just how much was produced locally before the arrival of the railroad. Shipping things of all kinds was expensive before the railroad, and it was cheaper to make things right here if that was possible. The list of things made locally includes: clocks, hats, guns, stills, pottery, wagons, carriages, beer, liquor, newspapers, scythes, hatchets, threshing machines, pumps, fabrics, leather, shoes, saddles, ink, gunpowder, gravestones, bricks, etc. I am also looking for millers, blacksmiths, sawyers, miners , in short anyone who was making things. I am doing this post to inquire if anyone on the list might have information that they want to pass along about people they descend from or know about who made things in pre 1850 Greensburg or Hempfield township . Thanks in advance, ********************** jim miller/621 grove st********************** greensburg pa 15601 _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_family_safety_072008