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Columbia's favorite son : Gen. Thomas Welsh, the man and the myth Preceedings of a symposium Saturday October 25, 2008 / edited by Richard C. Wiggin

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19812

Date of Publication: ca. 2009

Call Number: 923.5 W461c

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: ca. 2009

Physical Description: 65 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: From cover: Sponsored jointly by : The Columbia Public Library and the Columbia Historic Preservation Society.

Subjects: Welsh, Thomas, - 1824-1863.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Military biography; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Biography; Columbia (Pa.) - History

Additional Corporate Author: The Columbia Public Library (Pa.); The Columbia Historic Preservation Society (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 W461c

Digging up details of ordinary lives : an archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11812

Author: Ruth, Phil Johnson.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 974.8011 R974

Alternate Title: Archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA

Responsibility: investigation conducted by Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. (CHRS) ; sponsored and funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in consultation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Author: Ruth, Phil Johnson.

Place of Publication: North Wales, Pa

Publisher: Cultural Heritage Research Services,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 66 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Principal author: Philip Ruth ..."--t.p. verso.

Subjects: Cultural property - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Excavations (Archaeology) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Highway planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Leaman Place (Pa.) - Antiquities.; Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Antiquities.

Additional Corporate Author: Cultural Heritage Research Services.; Pennsylvania. Dept. of Transportation.; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 974.8011 R974

Report of the Committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8498

Date of Publication: 1909

Lancaster County in honor of the achievements of any of her sons. The clear, cool day had very much to do with bringing out the immense throng which teemed about the old stone house in Fulton township where Robert Fulton was born, and in Pyle's meadow nearby, where tradition says that he loved to play as a

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1909

Physical Description: 193-228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 13, no. 8

Subjects: Fulton, Robert, - 1765-1815 - Centennial celebrations, etc.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 13, number 8 (1909), p. 193-228Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.13

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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

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

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

"The wealth of years" : collecting and remembering Lancaster County; an exhibit at the Lancaster County Historical Society December 2000-June 2001

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14345

Date of Publication: 2001.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: 52-104 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.103, no.2.

Contents: From slavery to freedom--middle class African-Americans in Lancaster County (Hannah Bosley, William Whipper, Stephen Smith, Dinah McIntire)--Joseph Simon: Jewish merchant and philanthropist of the eighteenth century--Firefighting in early Lancaster--Family history at the Lancaster County Historical Society (Demuth family history)--Cooking in the County--Blanche Nevin--Lloyd Mifflin: artist and sonneteer--The bridge at Columbia--Ephrata Cloister--A distinguished military family (Henry A. Hambright)--A midwife (Susana Rohrer Mueller)--John Wise, balloonist (1808-1879)--Jasper Yeates, attorney and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice--Thaddeus Stevens--Robert Fulton, engineer and artist--"Gold!" (John Augustus Sutter)--George Washington--Oddities and the END.

Subjects: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - Exhibitions.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 103, number 2 (2001), p. 52-104Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.103, no.2

The charter, laws, catalogue of books, list of philosophical instruments, &c. of the Juliana Library-Company, in Lancaster : To which are prefixed, some reflections on the advantages of knowledge; the origin of books and libraries, shewing how they have been encouraged and patronized by the wise and virtuous of every age. : With a short account of its institution, friends and benefactors. ... Published by order of the directors

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18464

Corporate Author: Juliana-Library-Company in Lancaster.

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Call Number: 025.31 P544 1766

Corporate Author: Juliana-Library-Company in Lancaster.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers.,

Date of Publication: MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Physical Description: [4], xi, 12-56 p. ; 21 cm. (4to)

Notes: Evans; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,; Winans, R.B. Book cats.,; The earliest library in Lancaster, known as the "Juliana Library," was established in 1759, under the name of "The Lancaster Library Company." It was the third subscription library established in Pennsylvania. In 1763 it was chartered, and, out of compliment to Lady Juliana Penn, daughter of the Earl of Pomfret, and wife of Thomas Penn, one of the proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania, it was called the Juliana Library. The library at one time had about 800 books on its shelves and was fairly prosperous. Its most flourishing period was from 1760 to 1775.; On back of cover: "#532 Hinkels Sale Mar 31 1920 --$61.00. Purchased by Chas. I. Landis July 14 1920 from Nevin F. McGirr fpr $25."; Marbled wrappers.

Subjects: Juliana Library Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Proprietary libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Subscription libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Libraries.; Library catalogues - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 025.31 P544 1766

The career, thoughts, and vivid dreams of 19th century naturalist Simon Snyder Rathvon

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11487

Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Date of Publication: 2002.

Responsibility: by Thomas R. Winpenny.

Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: p.140-155 : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.104, no.3

Subjects: Rathvon, Simon Snyder, - 1812-1891.; Naturalists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 104, number 3 (2002), p. 140-155Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.104, no.3

History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15186

Author: Smedley, R. C.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 973.7115 S637 2005

Responsibility: R.C. Smedley ; introduction by Christopher Densmore.

ISBN: 0811731898

Author: Smedley, R. C.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Notes: Originally published: Lancaster, Pa. : Office of the Journal, 1883.; Includes index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: This book was written in 1883 by Robert Clemons Smedley, a Chester County Pennsylvania physician who interviewed participants in the underground railroad. He was not a historian and was not unbiased. But he is considered to have been conscientious in his efforts to record the stories he was told. He wrote about events as described to him by person who themselves were involved, both those fleeing slavery and those assisting them.Topics in chapters 1 & 2 include William Wright and Columbia, PA. Chapter 8 is about the "Christiana Tragedy".

Subjects: Underground railroad - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Underground railroad - Pennsylvania.; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Chester County; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Chester County; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Biography.; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Biography.; Chester County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 S637 2005

The Amish of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18102

Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 289.71 K89

Responsibility: text by Donald B. Kraybill ; photography by Daniel Rodriguez.

ISBN: 9780811734783 (pbk.); 0811734781 (pbk.)

Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: 88 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; Community life - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Ethnic relations.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Rodriguez, Daniel

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.71 K89

Pride of Columbia: the life and legacy of Brig. Gen. Thomas Welsh Proceedings of a symposium Saturday October 20, 2007

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18280

Date of Publication: ca. 2008.

Call Number: 923.5 W461

Responsibility: edited by Richard C. Wiggin.

Place of Publication: [S. l

Publisher: s. n.] ,

Date of Publication: ca. 2008.

Physical Description: 53 p. ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: From cover: Sponsored jointly by: The Columbia Public Library and the Columbia Historic Preservation Society.

Subjects: Welsh, Thomas, - 1824-1863.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Military biography.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Biography.; Columbia (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: The Columbia Public Library.; The Columbia Historic Preservation Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 W461

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