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List of officers and standing committees of councils, etc. of the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1901.

Call Number: 352.0052 L773

Alternate Title: List of officers and committees of the city of Lancaster.

Responsibility: compiled by Edwin S. Smeltz.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1901.

Physical Description: [8 p.] ; 14 cm.

Subjects: Municipal government - Handbooks, manuals, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Additional Author: Smeltz, Edwin S.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.0052 L773

The history of Old St. David's Church Radnor, in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. With a complete alphabetical list of wardens and vestrymen, and of the interments in the graveyard, 1700-1906

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6922

Date of Publication: 1907.

Call Number: 974.814 S132

Responsibility: Prepared at the request of the Historical society of Delaware county, Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: John C. Winston co.,

Date of Publication: 1907.

Physical Description: 7 p. Î²., 208 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: This is number 531 of 1000 copies.

Subjects: Radnor, Pa. - St. David's Church - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Delaware County (Pa.). Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.814 S132

The musical and literary organizations and their leaders of Landisville and vicinity

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo290

Author: Landis, David Bachman,

Date of Publication: 1906

The Musical and Literary Organizations and their Leaders of Landisville and Vicinity. In preparing this, my fourth paper of original data on local historical re- search, I confess that it proved to be "up-hill" work, indeed; yet, from a mass of memories, much valuable matter has been brought forth

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Responsibility: by D. B. Landis.

Author: Landis, David Bachman,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1906

Physical Description: [3]-27 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 1

Subjects: Music - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Landisville (Pa.) - Social life and customs.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 10, number 1 (1906), p. 3-27Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.10

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Lancaster county Indians; annals of the Susquehannocks and other Indian tribes of the Susquehanna territory from about the year 1500 to 1763, the date of their extinction. An exhaustive and interesting series of historical papers descriptive of Lancaster county's Indians prior to and during the advent of the paleface

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5154

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1908.

Call Number: 974.8011 E75

Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Date of Publication: 1908.

Physical Description: 2 p. Î²., [3]-415 p. 23 cm.

Notes: LCHS copy inscribed by author.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehanna Indians.; Conestoga Indians.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Antiquities; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 E75

Map showing location and date of the earliest highways leading from the Delaware and Schulkill Rivers to the Susquehanna River and it's branches / by H. Frank Eshleman

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15534

Author: Eshleman, H. Frank

Date of Publication: 1907.

Call Number: 974.815 SEPA 100

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Author: Eshleman, H. Frank

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: H. Frank Eshleman,

Date of Publication: 1907.

Physical Description: 1 map ; 22 x 41 cm.

Notes: Scale on map [ca. 1:418,176]. 3/4 in. = 5 mi.; May be a reduced reproduction of the original map.

Subjects: Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Maps.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Delaware County - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.; Chester County (Pa.) - Maps.; Delaware County (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 SEPA 100

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A pioneer outline history of northwestern Pennsylvania : embracing the counties of Tioga, Potter, McKean, Warren, Crawford, Venango, Forest, Clarion, Elk, Jefferson, Cameron, Butler, Lawrence, and Mercer : also a pioneer sketch of the cities of Allegheny, Beaver, Du Bois, and Towanda : my first recollections of Brookville, Pennsylvania, 1840-1843, when my feet were bare and my cheeks were brown

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3828

Author: McKnight, W. J.

Date of Publication: 1905.

Call Number: 974.800914 M159

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Alternate Title: 1780-1850

Responsibility: by W.J. McKnight.

Author: McKnight, W. J.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by J.B. Lippincott Co.,

Date of Publication: 1905.

Physical Description: 748 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents: Includes information about: Iroquois, Seneca native Americans -- land surveys and titles -- Pioneer animals -- Pioneer hunter Bill Long -- Early roads and "The Old State Road " -- Pioneer settlements of western Pennsylvania -- The Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike -- Pioneer agriculture -- Pioneer religion and missionary work -- Circuit courts -- Pioneer doctor -- Slavery -- Pioneer money -- Scotch Irish -- Common schools -- Pioneer newspapers-- County histories

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History, Local.; Brookville (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.800914 M159

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Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3571

Author: Swank, James Moore,

Date of Publication: 1908.

Call Number: 974.8009 S972

Responsibility: By James M. Swank...

Author: Swank, James Moore,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott company,

Date of Publication: 1908.

Physical Description: vi, p., 1 l., 360 p. illus. 25 cm.

Notes: "Authorities consulted": p. [v]-vi.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - Economic conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8009 S972

Some peculiar laws and customs of colonial days : a paper read before the Pennsylvania Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, January 14th, 1905

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18899

Author: Ames, Herman Vandenburg,

Date of Publication: c1905]

Call Number: 340 A513

Responsibility: Herman Vandenburg Ames Ph. D.

Author: Ames, Herman Vandenburg,

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia

Publisher: Leeds & Biddle Co.,

Date of Publication: c1905]

Physical Description: 26 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Law - United States; United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 340 A513

The domestic life and characteristics of the Pennsylvania-German pioneer : a narrative and critical history ; prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2476

Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Date of Publication: 1900.

Call Number: 390 S299

Responsibility: by F.J.F. Schantz.

Author: Schantz, F. J. F.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [New Era Printing Co.],

Date of Publication: 1900.

Physical Description: 95 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Also found in Pennsylvania German Society, v.10.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania-German Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 390 S299

Why was Postlethwaite's chosen and then abandoned as the county seat of Lancaster County?

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7801

Author: Landis, David H.,

Date of Publication: 1908

in 1730 Lancaster town- ship was of so little importance, that, although supervisors, overseers of the poor and constables were appointed in the fourteen other townships of the county, the number in proportion to their prominence, Lancaster township was the only one u2 in which no officers were

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Responsibility: by D. H. Landis.

Author: Landis, David H.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1908

Physical Description: [137]-167 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 12, no. 4

Summary: "Giving an authentic sketch of the conditions as they appeared here before the scenes were changed by the first Europeans. Also, brief sketches of the Susquehannock or Conestoga Indians, the Traders, Penn's Troubles, the Palatines, Councils held at the Indian Town of Conestoga, Beginning of Lancaster City, Conestoga Manor and the location and present owners of prominent places which were intimately associated with Postlethwaite's; adding a sketch of John Cartlege, the King's first magistrate of what is now Lancaster County."

Subjects: Postlethwaite, John.; Postlethwaite Tavern (Conestoga Township, Pa.); Indians of North America.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 12, number 4 (1908), p. 137-167Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.12

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List of officers and standing committees of councils, etc. of the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18062

The history of Old St. David's Church Radnor, in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. With a complete alphabetical list of wardens and vestrymen, and of the interments in the graveyard, 1700-1906

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6922

The musical and literary organizations and their leaders of Landisville and vicinity

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo290

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5154

Map showing location and date of the earliest highways leading from the Delaware and Schulkill Rivers to the Susquehanna River and it's branches / by H. Frank Eshleman

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15534

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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3828

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Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3571

Some peculiar laws and customs of colonial days : a paper read before the Pennsylvania Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, January 14th, 1905

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18899

The domestic life and characteristics of the Pennsylvania-German pioneer : a narrative and critical history ; prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2476

Why was Postlethwaite's chosen and then abandoned as the county seat of Lancaster County?

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7801

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