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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

is privately owned and spans the Little Conestoga Creek near Lancaster City in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It has one span of about 55 feet and was built in 1868. The owners use the old Mill for Church and School functions. There is a Datestone on the Mill which reads ‘Erbauen Von Andreas

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Garden Spot trolleys : an illustrated history of the electric street railway in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Cummings, Luther P.

Date of Publication: c1977.

Call Number: 388.4 C971

Responsibility: by Luther P. Cummings and Benson W. Rohrbeck.

Author: Cummings, Luther P.

Place of Publication: West Chester, Pa

Publisher: B. Rohrbeck Traction Publications,

Date of Publication: c1977.

Physical Description: 170 p. : ill., maps (1 fold. in pocket) ; 23 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania traction series

Subjects: Conestoga Traction Company.; Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company.; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway Company.; Lancaster and Southern Street Railway Company.; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Trolley buses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Rohrbeck, Benson W.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 388.4 C971

Quarryville in Lancaster County's "Southern End" : "where the race of men go by"

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Author: Roth, Mike.

Date of Publication: 2014.

Call Number: 974.815 QUAR R846

Responsibility: by Mike Roth and Stanley T. White ; edited by: Linda A. White and Marsha Stiles.

ISBN: 9781495100079; 1495100073

Author: Roth, Mike.

Place of Publication: Willow Street, PA

Publisher: Mike Roth and Stanley T. White, printed by Seaber Turner & Associates,

Date of Publication: 2014.

Physical Description: 546 p. : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm

Notes: Maps on endpapers.; Includes index.

Summary: "Book includes over 900 photos dating from the late 1800's to the current day. Each business or structure explores the original history from its beginning, right up to the current day occupants. This is the most complete history ever written about the Borough of Quarryville, in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A treasure-trove of genealogy, historical maps, black and white "period" photos, color photography, and more! Simply a "must have" for anyone with roots in that part of Pennsylvania"--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Quarryville (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: White, Stanley T.; Wjite, Linda A.; Stiles, Marsha.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 QUAR R846

"Southern End" house & history tour

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Corporate Author: Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc.

Date of Publication: 2015.

Call Number: 728.37 S727

Corporate Author: Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc.

Place of Publication: Quarryville, Pa

Publisher: Southern Lancaster County Historical Society ;

Date of Publication: 2015.

Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Dwellings - Pennsylvania - Lancster County; Quarryville (Pa.) - History.; Drumore (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Historic houses.; Drumore (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Tours.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 S727

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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Object ID: MG0153

Date Range: 1862-1987

cream Peach Bottom Slate Mining Company Pennsylvania Salt Company Pequea Lime Philadelphia Place Marie Restaurants Restore ‘N More Rohrerstown, East Hempfield Twp. Russo Answer-Phone Service Sayres, Scheid & Sweeton Steinman Hardware Stockyard Inn Stores The Sunday News Trivers Clothes Trout & Shank

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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Description: The Advertising and Promotional Collection contains materials for a wide variety of businesses and organizations in Lancaster County, including manufacturers, department and clothing stores, entertainment venues, grocery stores, restaurants, service providers, and social clubs. Of special interest is the use of both English and German in a brochure from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., as well as in the soap-making directions from the Pennsylvania Salt Co. There are also a 1921 program from Lancaster's Colonial Theatre and boxing programs that list Lancaster native, Leo Houck.

Date Range: 1862-1987

Year Range From: 1862

Year Range To: 1987

Date of Accumulation: 1862-1987

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bogle, George; Bortzfield, Jere; Butler, Smedley D.; Correll, Clint; Eberly, Jay M.; Evans, Melvern R,; Frueauff, W. Herman T.; Hawbaker, Gary; Houck, Leo; Huss, Arlene Rider; Jackson, J. T.; Jenner, Edward; Kelly, P. B.; Kepler, Aaron Conrad; Lynch, Charles O.; Manning, Peggy Sheets; Martin, John W.; Miller, Charles F.; Musser, Andrew J.; Miller, J. R.; Rohrer, Willis; Ross, Betsy; Schuneman, Ray; Skiles, John D.; Slaymaker, R. M.; Smith, Lynn A.; Smith, Marjorie A.; Stauffer, Sarah Ann; Stumpf, Ed; Suydam, Henry; Tobias, Richard J.; Yecker, Paul C.; Rowe, Ceylon; Landes, Lizzie; Stehman, Henry L.

Subjects: Advertising; Ephemera; Advertising fliers; Fliers (Ephemera)

Search Terms: A&P; A. F. Huber Food Store; Advertisements; Advertising; Advertising fliers; Announcements; Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Aunt Betty's Playhouse; Big Boy Restaurants; Boston Insurance Company; Brochures; Brownstown, West Earl Twp.; Business; Christmas carols; Clarion Steam Printing House; Clipper Magazine; Colonial Theatre; Columbia; Columbia Flour Mills; Columbia Herald Job Printing Office; Columbian Printing Company; Cope Brothers; Dr. Raub's Egg White Soap; Drawings; E. H. Gochnauer and Sons; East Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Ed Stumpf's Service Stations; Engle and Hambright; Ephemera; Express Steam Printers; Finding aids; Finks Baked Products; Flyers; Gardner and Craver; Gates Dental Company, Inc.; Glitsch' Imperial Russian Mustard; Grandview Heights; Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company; Harrison Brothers and Company; Heinitsh Furniture Company; Hershey and Groff; Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. (Maryland); Invitations; John D. Skiles, Dry Goods and Clothing; John Herr's Mill; Kelly Cadillac; Kunkel and Brother; L. B. Herr & Son; Lakeland Stabling Company; Lancaster; Lancaster Advertiser's Club; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Chemical Company; Lancaster Country Store; Lancaster County Heritage Magazine; Lancaster Dispensing Company; Lancaster Outdoor Advertising Company; Lime Spring Farm; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Lynch Drop Center Fifth Wheel and Gear Connections; Manuscript groups; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Mill Bridge Village & Camp Resort; Mills; Moderne Manor; Musselman and Slaymaker; New Holland, Earl Twp.; Pacquin's Dentist's and Physician's hand cream; Peach Bottom Slate Mining Company; Pennsylvania Salt Company; Pequea Lime; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Place Marie; Restaurants; Restore 'N More; Rohrerstown, East Hempfield Twp.; Russo Answer-Phone Service; Sayres, Scheid & Sweeton; Steinman Hardware; Stockyard Inn; Stores; Sunday News; Trivers Clothes; Trout and Shank; F. W. Woolworth Co.; H. L. Stehman and Co.; Heitshu's Drug Store

Extent: 1 box, 13 folders, .2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0153

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Business and Industry Collection (MG0107); Invoice and Receipt Collection (MG0253); Billheads from the Commissioners' Orders for Payment Collection (MG0182); Business Letterhead Collection (MG0254)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Advertising and Promotional Collection (MG0153), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-153

Other Number: MG-153

Classification: MG0153

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was originally cataloged in 1998 and the finding aid is updated as items are added. Added to database 25 August 2021.

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The best poor man's country; a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania

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Author: Lemon, James T.

Date of Publication: [1972]

Call Number: 974.800912 L556

Responsibility: [by] James T. Lemon.

ISBN: 0801811899

Author: Lemon, James T.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press

Date of Publication: [1972]

Physical Description: xviii, 295 p. maps. 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Land use - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Dauphin County (Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania - Social conditions.; Pennsylvania - Economic conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.800912 L556

City of Lebanon Bridges over Norfolk Southern : an historical retrospective of the people and businesses

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Author: Rhoads, Donald L.

Date of Publication: [2012]

Call Number: 974.819

Alternate Title: Bridges over Norfolk Southern

Responsibility: by Donald L. Rhoads, Jr. and Gladys Bucher Sowers.

Author: Rhoads, Donald L.

Place of Publication: [Lebanon, Pa.]

Publisher: [Lebanon County Historical Society],

Date of Publication: [2012]

Physical Description: v, 79 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes: "March 2012."; "Volume 20, number 2"--Cover.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: "Presents information on the people and areas of Lebanon affected by the Bridge over Norfolk Southern project. It provides a glimpse of the history of some families who lived in the bridge area; it also provides information on some businesses that were located on the sites where the new bridges will be constructed."--Page ii.

Subjects: Bridges - Pennsylvania - Lebanon.; Railroads - Pennsylvania - Lebanon.; Bridges.; Commerce.; Railroads.; Lebanon (Pa.) - History.; Lebanon (Pa.) - Commerce.; Pennsylvania - Lebanon.; History.

Additional Author: Sowers, Gladys Bucher,

Additional Corporate Author: Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819

The logging railroad era of lumbering in Pennsylvania : a history of the lumber, chemical wood, and tanning companies which used railroads in Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1970-1978]

Call Number: 674 L832

Place of Publication: [Williamsport, Pa

Publisher: Lycoming printing,

Date of Publication: 1970-1978]

Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents: Contents: The logging railroad era of lumbering in Pennsylvania by Walter Casler, Benjamin F. G Kline, jr., and Thomas T. Taber III--Book 1: Pitch pine and prop timber, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Book 2: "Wild catting" on the mountain, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Book 3: Ghost lumber towns of central Pennsylvania, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 4: Sunset along Susquehanna waters, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 5: The Goodyears, an empire in the hemlocks, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 6: Whining saws and squealing flanges, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 7: Sawmills among the derricks, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 8: Tionesta Valley, by Walter C. Casler.--Book 9: Teddy Collins empire, by Walter C. Casler.--Book 10: Tanbark, alcohol, and lumber, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 11: Allegheny Valley logging railroads, by Walter C. Casler.--Book 12: Dinkies, dams and sawdust, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Book 13: "Stemwinders" in the laurel highlands, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Index: Addenda and index, Additions and corrections, by Walter Casler, Benjamin F. G. Kline, jr, and Thomas T Tabor III.

Subjects: Collins, Truman D.; Whitmer-Steele Company.; Goodyear Lumber Company.; Logging railroads - Pennsylvania; Lumbering - Pennsylvania; Railroads - Pennsylvania; Kane (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Casler, Walter.; Kline, Benjamin F. G.; Taber, Thomas Townsend.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 674 L832

The hanging of Susanna Cox : the true story of Pennsylvania's most notorious infanticide & the legend that's kept it alive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18407

Author: Suter, Patricia.

Date of Publication: c2010.

Call Number: 364.152 S965

Responsibility: Patricia Earnest Suter and Russell and Corinne Earnest ; foreword by Don Yoder.

ISBN: 9780811705608 (hardcover); 0811705609 (hardcover)

Author: Suter, Patricia.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: c2010.

Physical Description: xii, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Prologue: the Kutztown Folk Festival -- Reading and the Oley Valley -- Fingers of guilt -- Middling stiff -- When law and humanity had but faint connection -- Twelve honest men -- A distraction from grim tidings -- As innocent as a child -- The last melancholy resource -- Ten o'clock to two o'clock and fifty minutes -- Slinking off anonymously -- A last hope -- Seduced by the devil -- Confession -- I poor wretch -- A final jolt -- Peace be to her -- The printers of Exeter Township -- The sad, sad song of Susanna Cox -- Advice from the dead to the living -- Her exit--infamy -- Epilogue: back to the festival.

Summary: The unfortunate Susanna Cox gained notoriety for killing her illegitimate infant son. The fatal episode led to her hanging in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1809, the last public execution of a woman in the commonwealth. But was Susanna really the culprit? The legend of her fate, repeated in Pennsylvania German broadsides by the generations that followed, suggests she herself was a victim. Now, in this first full-length investigation into the tragedy, new evidence reveals some startling facts about how indifference, an undeveloped court system, and the inexact science of nineteenth-century forensics combined to determine Susanna's tragic fate. A full look at how Susanna's "sad song" became romanticized through broadside ballads follows, complete with illustrations.

Subjects: Cox, Susanna, - d. 1809.; Filicide - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Unmarried mothers - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Women murderers - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Berks County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Earnest, Russell D.; Earnest, Corinne P.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 364.152 S965

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Garden Spot trolleys : an illustrated history of the electric street railway in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2870

Quarryville in Lancaster County's "Southern End" : "where the race of men go by"

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19592

"Southern End" house & history tour

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The best poor man's country; a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2183

City of Lebanon Bridges over Norfolk Southern : an historical retrospective of the people and businesses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19024

The logging railroad era of lumbering in Pennsylvania : a history of the lumber, chemical wood, and tanning companies which used railroads in Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17747

The hanging of Susanna Cox : the true story of Pennsylvania's most notorious infanticide & the legend that's kept it alive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18407