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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Object ID
MG0123
Date Range
1819-1977
a $500 mortgage bond, a blank stock certificate, and a requisition for high- tension lines. [18__]-1912. Folder 8 Conestoga Traction Co. Booklet of early histories, “Lancaster Co., Pa.,” which describes the company’s history, its routes, and sights along the way. 1 August 1908. Booklet by H. W
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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
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Lancaster Pennsylvania the red rose city : County seat of America's garden spot

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16764
Corporate Author
Lancaster (Pa.) Chamber of Commerce.
Date of Publication
1924.
Call Number
917.4815 L244 1924
Corporate Author
Lancaster (Pa.) Chamber of Commerce.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster Chamber of Commerce]
Date of Publication
1924.
Physical Description
32 p. ; map ; 9 x 15 cm.
Subjects
Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
917.4815 L244 1924
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Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Date of Publication
1923
: Hostetter, Albert K. Title: The Survivors' club / by Albert K. Hostetter. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Survivors' club (Lancaster, Pa.) Veterans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 --Veterans. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical
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Responsibility
by Albert K. Hostetter.
Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1923
Physical Description
133-142 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 8
Summary
This journal article, written in 1923 , provides the history of the "Survivor's Club " which was comprised of Civil War veterans in Lancaster, PA. The survivors met yearly for a dinner beginning in 1868. The article gives a brief description of each meeting through 1922. The last of those entries was made by Captain P.L. Sprecher, the last Survivor. The article also gives a biographical sketch of each member of the Survivor's Club. The minute books and dinner programs from the meetings can be found in the LancasterHistory.org archives. See https://www.lancasterhistory.org/finding-aids/survivors-club-1867-1921/
Subjects
Survivors' club (Lancaster, Pa.)
Veterans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Veterans.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 27, number 8 (1923), p. 133-142Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.27
Documents

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Industrial directory of Lancaster : "the red rose city" of Pennsylvania and county seat of Lancaster County "America's garden spot."

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20793
Date of Publication
[(1929?).]
Call Number
330.974815 L224w
Alternate Title
What Lancaster "the red rose city of Pennsylvania" manufactures
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce,
Date of Publication
[(1929?).]
Physical Description
52 pages ; 16 cm
Notes
Cover title: What Lancaster "The Red Rose City of Pennsylvania" manufactures. An alphabetical list of manufacturers and an index of the commodities they produce.
Subjects
Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Directories.
Industries.
Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Directories.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
330.974815 L224w
Copy Info
1929
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A history of an old frame grist mill converted into a schoolhouse and of the ancient Durlach Schoolhouse

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3666
Author
Eberly, David G.
Date of Publication
1936
. Herbert H. Beck and C. H. Martin of the Lancaster County Historical Society; Rev. Arlington Gerhard of Philadelphia ; Rev. John B. Bucher of Ephrata, and the writer. Talks were also given by teachers who served at the old and the new Clay Schoolhouses. On such occasions, it is customary to give a history
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Responsibility
by David G. Eberly.
Author
Eberly, David G.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1936
Physical Description
[1]-8 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 40, no. 1
Subjects
Durlach School (Clay Township, Lancaster County, Pa.)
Schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 40, number 1 (1936), p. 1-8Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.40
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Pictorial souvenir, the borough of Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania, golden jubilee, 1880-1930, June seventh to fourteenth, inclusive : fifty years of progress

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7749
Author
Ehehalt, C. M.,
Date of Publication
c1930]
Call Number
974.841 B736
Author
Ehehalt, C. M.,
Place of Publication
[York, Pa
Publisher
York printing co.,
Date of Publication
c1930]
Physical Description
208 p. : ill., ports., maps, facsims. ; 31 cm.
Notes
"C.M. Ehehalt, editor."
Includes advertising matter.
Title from cover.
Subjects
Red Lion (York County, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.841 B736
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Attitude of Lancaster County on a system of free schools, in the year 1825

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4172
Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Date of Publication
1938
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.42
Responsibility
by Lottie M. Bausman.
Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1938
Physical Description
[140]-148 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 42, no. 5
Subjects
Education - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Education - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.42
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Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 31, 1911

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15375
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Dept. of Highways.
Edition
Rev. Feb. 1931.
Date of Publication
1931.
Call Number
974.815 LACO 514 Oversize
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Dept. of Highways.
Edition
Rev. Feb. 1931.
Place of Publication
[Harrisburg, Pa.]
Publisher
Pennsylvania Dept. of Highways,
Date of Publication
1931.
Physical Description
1 map : col. ; 116 x 114 cm.
Notes
Map includes route numbers, railroads, streams, and important building locations.
"January 1912."
Subjects
Transportation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.
Railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 LACO 514 Oversize
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Unveiling of the tablet commemorating the bicentennial of the James Wright house and the Sesquicentennial of the Borough of Columbia, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3725
Author
Hiestand, Elizabeth F. G.
Date of Publication
1938
incidents in the history of Lancaster County, I might say that John Wright, Quaker, was born in Lancashire, England, in 1667, and after his arrival in this country in 1714, immediately became a respected and influential citizen, After serving in various important positions of trust in Philadel- phia, he
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Responsibility
by Elizabeth F. G. Hiestand.
Author
Hiestand, Elizabeth F. G.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1938
Physical Description
[125]-137 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 42, no. 5
Subjects
Wright, James.
Wright, John, - 1667-1749.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Columbia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Columbia (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 42, number 5 (1938), p. 125-137Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.42
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History of Lancaster chapter, American Red Cross

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17630
Corporate Author
American National Red Cross. Lancaster Chapter.
Date of Publication
1920.
Call Number
361.7634 A615h
Corporate Author
American National Red Cross. Lancaster Chapter.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
New Era printing press,
Date of Publication
1920.
Physical Description
56 p. : 24 cm.
Subjects
American Red Cross - Pennsylvania - Lancaster Chapter
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
361.7634 A615h
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