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Today's Manheim PA may not be the thriving community it is without Henry William Stiegel. In 1750, Henry William Stiegel arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany and began a journey that would lead him to both riches and to ruin.
Within a few years of his arrival, Stiegel became a proficient and prosperous ironmaster and had become an influential member of local churches and other affairs. Stiegel built a forge in Lancaster County and another in Berks County and began experimenting with blown glass along with continuing his mastery of forged iron. Shortly thereafter, he purchased a large tract of land in Lancaster and began plans for laying out a new town of his own.
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