Marietta Pike : The history of a Lancaster County Road- Part I : The Road to Anderson's ferry (1742) and the Lancaster-New Haven and Waterford Turnpike Road Company (1812)
"As pioneers pushed westward, new roads were cut through the landscape, so that by the late 1720s, homesteaders were looking to cross the Susquehanna and occupy terriotry on the western side of the river. The family of the Reverend James Anderson (1678-1740) in Donegal began ferrying people across the waters, and the steady stream of pioneers eager to move west set up the demand for a public road."
Marietta Pike : The history of a Lancaster County Road- Part II : The Lancaster Marietta Turnpike Road Company (1854) and Pennsylvania Legislative Routes 340 and 23 (1928)
A booke of entries : containing perfect and approued presidents of counts, declarations, informations, pleints, inditements, barres, replications, reioynders, pleadings, processes, continuances, essoines, issues, defaults, departure in despite of the court, demurrers, trialls, iudgements, executions, and all other matters and proceedings (in effect) concerning the practique part of the laws of England, in actions reall, personall, and mixt, and in appeales ; necessarie to be knowne, and of excellent vse for the moderne practise of the law, many of them contaynin matters in law and points of great learning: and none of them euer imprinted heretofore. Collected and published for the common good and benefit of all the studious and learned professors of the laws of England
A digest of the rules, ordinances & bye-laws, for the regulation and government of the directors, the poor and house employment, the farm, hospital and lunatic department. Also : a complete digest of the acts of the General Assembly
Williams' Lancaster city and county directory for 1896 : including a classified general and business directory of Lancaster city and the boroughs of Adamstown, Akron, Christiana, Columbia, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Lititz, Manheim, Marietta, Mount Joy, New Holland, Quarryville and Washington; and a general and business directory of the townships of Lancaster County ... Also an appendix, containing a list of county, city and borough officers, churches, societies, etc
A reference map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania showing the location and distances of the city, townships, boroughs, post-office and villages, together with the main roads (turnpikes), railroads and railroad stations, also the population of each township and borough as per census of 1890
Boyd's Central Pennsylvania business directory and gazetteer, : embracing the counties of Berks, Chester, Columbia, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lycoming, Montgomery, Northumberland, Montour, Schuylkill, on the line of the philadelphia & Ready Rail Road, its branches, Penna. Schuylkill Valley Rail Roat, Etc
Register of marriages and baptisms kept by Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing : In connection with the churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown, and Caenarvon (Episcopal) Lancaster County, Penna
"One of the best known legends from York County, Pennsylvania, is Toad Road and the Seven Gates of Hell. What is the real story? Where are the Seven Gates of Hell? Where is Toad Road? Extensive research and on site exploration is combined to dispel urban legends while revealing stranger truths. Journey beyond the Seventh Gate and into other weird places in York, Lancaster, and Adams Counties. Explore Hex Hollow, Chickies Rock, lonely graveyards, and old iron forges. Read true tales of bigfoot creatures, witches, ghosts, werewolves, and flying phantoms. Sometimes they haunt the woods behind you. Sometimes they are in your own back yard." [from the publisher]
