Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners,
Date of Publication
1947.
Physical Description
32 p. : ill.
Notes
Issue features Lancaster County.
Articles include: Lancaster County, a tradition with a future - Lancaster County is an American tradition - Lancaster City faces the future by J.M.J. Klein - "A State in itself"-the people of Lancaster County - Americas "Garden Spot" ranks high in industry - Local government in Lancaster County is big business - What the Pennsylvania "Dutch" gave to American farming by E.K. Hibshman - Commonwealth's Guide to Lancaster City and County.
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 136, no. 1, January 2012.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v. 136, no. 1
From Europe to America -- Establishing the West Conestoga -- The four settlements: Mannheim Township, Upper Leacock, Warwick ; Earl, Leacock ; Cains/Compass ; Pequea/Mill Creek -- Names of interest in the West Conestoga from 1770-1800 -- Progressive trends of the West Conestoga -- True to the Old Order -- Families of the West Conestoga amd Mill Creek/Pequea from 1737-1810. Garber, Schantz, Johns, Erb, Rickenbach, Nafzigor, Kurtz, Rupp, Seiler, Linder, Shellenberger, Farny, Forney, Von Gundy, Showalter, Schmucker, Alleman, Stoltzfus, Borntrager, Schenk, Sommers, Yoder, Sharp, Kenegy, Benedum, Reinhart, Fisher, King, Beiler, Zook, Lapp.
Summary
An account of the families ... who comprised the first Amish community in Lancaster County for about the earliest 70 years, or until 1810.
