AREA HISTORY:  Beard’s Tannery, Lower Windsor Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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BEARD’S TANNERY – Page 731

The only tannery now in Lower Windsor is located just beyond the stream called “the head of 
Kreutz Creek,” on the road from York to East Prospect.  It has long been known as Beard’s 
Tannery.  It was started about eighty years ago 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, Esq., began the business, and continued nearly forty years – Frank and Harry Beard were 
the proprietors.  The present firm name is John E. Beard & Son.  The bark used is from the 
chestnut-oak still obtained in the adjoining woods.