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Welcome to the wedge : a compilation of tours of lesser known points of interest within a 60-mile radius of Newark, Delaware

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Date of Publication: [ca. 1965]

Call Number: 975.1 W392

Alternate Title: Around the edge of the wedge

Place of Publication: Newark, Del

Publisher: Unitarian Fellowship of Newark,

Date of Publication: [ca. 1965]

Physical Description: 43, [1] p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Notes: "This booklet was compiled by the Women's Alliance of the Unitarian Fellowship of Newark, Delaware. Mrs. Warren Davies, editor ; Mrs. Clarence W. Brown, assistant ; Mrs. Raymond Cashel, artist ; Mrs. E.H. Heisa, typist ; and members of the Alliance who plotted and checked the tours"--Colophon.; Printed wrappers.

Subjects: Newark Region (Del.) - Description and travel.

Additional Author: Davies, Warren,; Brown, Clarence W.,; Cashel, Raymond,

Additional Corporate Author: Unitarian Fellowship of Newark, Delaware. Women's Alliance.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.1 W392

Just south of Gettysburg, Carroll County, Maryland in the Civil War. : Personal accounts and descriptions of a Maryland border county, 1861-1865

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Author: Klein, Frederic Shriver,

Date of Publication: 1963.

Call Number: 975.27 K64

Responsibility: edited by Frederic Shriver Klein ... with the collaboration of W. Harold Redcatm [and] G. Thomas LeGore.

Author: Klein, Frederic Shriver,

Place of Publication: Westminister, Md

Publisher: Newman Press,

Date of Publication: 1963.

Physical Description: xix, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes insert map "The Civil War in Carroll County Maryland, the Gettsyburg Campaign".

Contents: North and South -- The first invasion, 1862 -- The cavalry battle, June 29, 1863 -- After the battle -- Troops at Westminster, 1863 -- Transportation, supply and communications -- Sending the news -- Troop movements in 1863 -- Plans for a battle along Pipe Creek -- North and South at Union Mills -- The last invasion, 1864 -- Carroll County towns in the Civil War.

Summary: "These are the accounts of citizens and soldiers who described Civil War events in Carroll County, Md., as they saw them during the war years a century ago. They are eye-witness accounts for the most part, by people who were there at the time and who were the very first to begin recording the history of the war. No other event in American history produced so much documentary material from so many individual sources as did the Civil War. The tremendous emotional impact of this gigantic conflict between Americans, who had lived in a state of comparatively peaceful and romantic isolation from anything so incomprehensible as an ideological war, inspired tens of thousands of both literate and illiterate soldiers and civilians to record the most minute details of their daily experiences, as though they thought posterity would never believe that mankind could produce such vast and terrible chaos"--Preface.

Subjects: Carroll County (Md.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Maryland - Carroll County.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.27 K64

A profile of the Paxton Boys : murderers of the Conestoga Indians

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Author: Cavaioli, Frank J.

Date of Publication: 1983

AProfile of the Paxton Boys: Murderers of the Conestoga Indians By Frank J. Cavaioli, Ph.D. The Paxton Uprising in Pennsylvania in December, 1763, to February, 1764, represents a singular yet significant event in American history. On its surface the event is simple, isolated and limited in its

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Responsibility: by Frank J. Cavaioli, Ph.D.

Author: Cavaioli, Frank J.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1983

Physical Description: 74-96 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 87, no. 3

Subjects: Paxton Boys.; Ethnology; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 87, number 3 (1983), p. 74-96Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.87

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The liberty line; the legend of the underground railroad

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Author: Gara, Larry

Date of Publication: [1961]

Call Number: 973.7115 G212

Author: Gara, Larry

Place of Publication: Lexington

Publisher: University of Kentucky Press

Date of Publication: [1961]

Physical Description: ix, 201 p. 24 cm.

Notes: " The underground railroadâ€”with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villainsâ€”has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom. "; Bibliographical footnotes.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Contents: CONTENTS 1. The Legendary Railroad 3. The Road to the North 2. Slavery and Freedom 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme 5. Friends of the Fugitive 6. The Fugitive Issue 7. The Roots of a Legend 8. Reminiscence and Romance 164

Subjects: Underground railroad.; Fugitive slaves - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 G212

"The Good side of my family" : a history of the Good-Goode-Guth family of Lancaster Co., Pa., and Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, with a record of some of the descendants of the family who moved elsewhere

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15070

Author: Baker, Ruth Good,

Date of Publication: 1961.

Call Number: 929 G646b

Responsibility: compiled by Ruth Good Baker.

Author: Baker, Ruth Good,

Place of Publication: [s.l.]

Publisher: Baker,

Date of Publication: 1961.

Physical Description: 45 [i.e. 55] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.

Subjects: Good family.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 G646b

The descendants of Daniel Lehman : a family history of Daniel Lehman (1776-1847), a native of Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who settled in Greene Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1796, was ordained a minister at the Chambersburg Mennonite Church in 1832 and is buried in the Lehman Family Cemetery on his farm

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Author: Lehman, Daniel Richard.

Date of Publication: 1983.

Call Number: 929 L552

Responsibility: by Daniel R. Lehman.

Author: Lehman, Daniel Richard.

Place of Publication: Fayetteville, Pennsylvania

Publisher: D.R. Lehman,

Date of Publication: 1983.

Physical Description: xxi, 429 p. : ill., ports.

Summary: Daniel Lehman was a descendant of Hans Lehman, a Swiss-born immigrant who came to Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1737. Daniel married Anna Huber. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, and elsewhere.