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SKETCH OF SCHAEFFERS. TOWN BY “GIRARD’(f'wnltmipfl frmiiTor ft bout. two dcrudes before Om old I’unnnylvunla pioneer nod Berkscounty's ]iml.run lt;*n)nt. wont to l»l« inodof!I grave nl Tulpehoekon.flchaef fend own, which l« aoutheant of Lebanon rity, 1h onn of I tin quaint spoUi In HiIh State,II. wuh seLUod nearly two eenturlefl ago hy a bund of German JhWH. 'I’llft (own was formally laid out 182 yearn ago,Writing about that settlement. lot* years iiftor 11 w«H tnaillt;?, flint, on00 fajTimiH Central Ibmimylvaiila lilii lor-Jttti, i. Daniel Hupp, Huld:The town wuh built by German •town, They wore no numerous as to have «. (synagogue and n rubbl.Ah early .1 732—Dm year Washington was born and our Independence 11 nil erected—the .Tows hud a graveyard, around which wan a Hiibslfint.lal stones wall, nearly the whole of which 1b still standing.Rupp's account was written in 1811, Ilo wah deeply Impressed by the IfiHt.Ing (] utility of that Jaw Inn wall, Kinlt;:o he wrote Unit I* was thou quite tut compact and solid as limestone Itself,The union til of 11 mo used In construction was far greater than the ordinary.TlmL ancient God's Acre was half a mllo from the Mlllo Jewish • own. Autofsts traveling down I ho laincnKi.fi!’ road can still boo the ro-nmlnH of it,That Ik hlslorlc ground for fin-other reason. Thuro-Uorg 1b dose by and upon Thum-Hcrff or Tower 11111 the celebrated Unroll William Henry Btlogol tiroctod hla castle, All trace of that baronial mansion had van!shod a century ago, BHegel was really a German baron, but In Pennsylvania ho was a foremost Iron maul or, glims manufacturer, preacher and teach or,Carnagio said that stool la elite-or a prince of a pauper,It la cither very prosperous or deadly dull, Huron allege I found Iron that way, ho ho oscillated from opulence to bankruptcy with amazing celerity.Muni’nim and not Schaorrorfttown was the scone of Huron SMogul's largest enterprises.At the form or placo lie built a now mansion, which long uftonvnrds boon me the property of John Arndt.Thoro was a pulpit in tho palace from which tho Huron preached to admiring neighbors and employees. Ho wnu tho Churl lo Scliwub of his day as an Iron man.But It was In gtass tluiL-tlic Bp ran made his greatest roputaUon. Any of our Industrious collectors will toll you that ones choice piece of Stlegel glass will toduy fetch a price equal to tho bout team of horses the Baron over owned.Our millionaires now /tx the price of these, antiques, while file nian ivho croHted the novelties often foHiid lt hard to pay liis debts.Tho Jews did not romaln for a vory long period tho dominant sect at ScluielTorstown.Thoro was a curious migration of thorn to other aeon os and, Lutherans and Gorman Reformed took - their place hard hy the venqrnblo lgrave-ynrd. / ; 'As for Barpn Stiagel, while ho, had one castle on . Thum-Borg arid a greater one 'ut Miinlioim, he mostly did not dwell In either, but in Philadelphia. Who known where?The Baron was quite showy. In I ho tower at each of his two castles was n knuilI cannon. Whenever the fanioua glussmaker onmo homo from some extended trip, a trusty servitor fired the gun so that the whole neighborhood know when the man tar was present.Like feudal subjects his more prosperous neigh burs than hastened to call upon the Baron. Workers at his factories laid aside their tools and took up musical instruments and hastened to tho castle to make merry, while tho master and his guests enjoyed a royal feast.Those wore tho days!Hla principal ora did not last tho Baron’s lifetime. Tho pauper stage came in IiIh later years.Had Sttegol glassware In 1770 been worth a tenth of lls present price tho Baron would have died in opulence. Such was not the fact and bo William Henry Stlegel. like many another, wont broke and was imprisoned for debt.Tho Pennsylvania Assembly In 1774 passed u special act relieving the Baron, but ho waa then broken in spirit as well as fortune. It is said that he ended his days in tho rolo of an obscure schoolmaster.But ut Manhoim they have carried on for a century and a half that romantic practice of paying rental for a church with one red rose uachyear.That was tho Baron’s bargain and it has been kept faithfully to thisd‘n’ GIB ABB.
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Lebanon Daily News and the Lebanon Daily Times
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Nov 01, 1927
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