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The North Museum : and the natural history tradition of Lancaster County

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Date of Publication: 1986

Call Number: 069 K56

Responsibility: W. Fred Kinsey, III ed. ...

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Printed and published by Science Press,

Date of Publication: 1986

Physical Description: 2 p.l., 167, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Science Press Keepsake ;

Notes: Edition limited to 1,200 copies, of which this is number 820.

Subjects: North Museum (Lancaster, Pa.); Botany - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Geology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Paleontology - Pennsylvania.; Natural history - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Kinsey, W. Fred,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 069 K56

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

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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

East Petersburg cemeteries : East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery [and] Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery

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Author: Nolt, Herny M.

Date of Publication: 1987.

Call Number: 289.7 E13

Responsibility: recorded by Harry M. Nolt.

Author: Nolt, Herny M.

Place of Publication: Photocopy of manuscript and tyepscript

Date of Publication: 1987.

Physical Description: unpaged ; map ; 28 cm.

Notes: No index.; East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery, #1a, p. 153 of Rineer's Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.; Trinity United Church of Christ, #3, p. 154 of Rineer's Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.; Listed by rows.

Subjects: East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery (East Petersburg, Pa.) - Cemeteries.; Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery (East Petersburg, Pa) - Cemeteries.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; East Petersburg (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 289.7 E13

Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census : for Bart Twp., Brecknock Twp., Caernarvon Twp., Colerain Twp., Drumore Twp., East Cocalico Twp., Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster Twp., Little Britain Twp., Manor Twp., Martic Twp., and West Cocalico Twp

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Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R413

Responsibility: by G. Louise Rankin.

Author: Renkin, G. Louise

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: Various pagings ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Census districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; United States - Census, 7th, 1850.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R413

The paving of East King Street by lottery, in 1802

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1900

PAYING OF EAST KING STREET Although Lancaster was laid out in 1730, and a number of streets marked down on the city plan, these thorough- fares were for many years only ordi- nary dirt roads, and no effort seems to have been made to improve them be- yond that condition until 1771, or near- ly

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900

Physical Description: [3]-22 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 1

Summary: The article discusses the use of lotteries, in general, in Colonial America and, in particular, to pave the roads within the city. Corporations had been used to finance the roads into Lancaster, such as the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Co. which was responsible for the road coming from the east and the Susquehanna Turnpike Company which was responsible for the road from Lancaster to Columbia.

Subjects: King Street (Lancaster, Pa.); Lotteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 19th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 1 (1900), p. 3-22Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4

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Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

.MG0123 Folder 30 Prints. Two images of the railroad station at North Queen Street, Lancaster. Circa 1840s and circa 1900. Transferred from Document Collection Box 26, Folder 3, Items 1A and 1B, 8 November 2023 (2 items, 4 pages to scan) �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125

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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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Tales told out of school : An informal history of the Lancaster Country Day School and the Shippen School

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Date of Publication: 1984.

Call Number: 370 C855

Responsibility: compiled by Anna Downey Gardner.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The School ,

Date of Publication: 1984.

Physical Description: 52 pages : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster Country Day School (Lancaster County, Pa.); The Shippen School (Lancaster, Pa.); Miss Stahr's School (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster College (Lancaster, Pa.); Franklin and Marshall Academy (Lancaster, Pa.); Private schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Education - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 C855

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

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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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Miss Stahr's school : 612 North Duke Street

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Date of Publication: 1902.

Call Number: 370 M678

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Wickersham Printing Company,

Date of Publication: 1902.

Physical Description: 19 p.; 19 cm.

Notes: Outlines the educational program, tuition and calendar for 1902-1903.

Summary: This is a pamphlet published in 1902 to advertise the school. It includes the names of the staff, the structure of curriculum, and the school's philosophy of education. The school's intention was to furnish girls with an education that would make them ready for college or for employment. Boys were being admitted to the lower grades if they were younger than10 years old. The Stahr school eventually was combined with Lancaster College, a prep school that would later become the Shippen School in 1908. The Shippen school would later become the Lancaster Country Day School.

Subjects: Miss Stahr's School (Lancaster, Pa.); Private schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Education - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 M678

Records of pastoral acts at the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1730-1790

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Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 284.1 M 943h

Responsibility: translated by William J. Hinke and Frederick S. Weiser.

ISBN: 0911122427 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Breinigsville, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: iv, 237 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ;

Notes: Includes index.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 109 #1.

Subjects: Muddy Creek Church (East Cocalico, Pa. : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - East Cocalico (Township); Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - East Cocalico (Township)

Additional Author: Hinke, William John,; Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 M 943h

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The North Museum : and the natural history tradition of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1743

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

East Petersburg cemeteries : East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery [and] Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20853

Abstract of persons born outside of Pa. or the U.S. from the 1850 census : for Bart Twp., Brecknock Twp., Caernarvon Twp., Colerain Twp., Drumore Twp., East Cocalico Twp., Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster Twp., Little Britain Twp., Manor Twp., Martic Twp., and West Cocalico Twp

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15588

The paving of East King Street by lottery, in 1802

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4236

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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/ebadea02-7f2c-4998-b1d2-392759509150

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Tales told out of school : An informal history of the Lancaster Country Day School and the Shippen School

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13433

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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Miss Stahr's school : 612 North Duke Street

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17272

Records of pastoral acts at the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1730-1790

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15138