Former site of bar at 301 New Dorwart Street run by mary Schneider's husband Baum or Clarence Gerfin called Sparky's.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Former site of Amico (Cicero) shoe repair shop, in garage, next to 109 New Dorwart Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Former site of Burger Brothers slaughterhouse and smokehouse, St. Joseph Street near Dorwart Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Polan and Katz Umbrella Factory, now the Lancaster Art Printing Company, 446 Lafayette Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Former site of Mary Draude's beauty shop, 634 Poplar Street.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Memorial pillar and tablet at 320 East Ross Street, Lancaster, marking the site of the country home of the Honorable George Ross (1730 - 1779), colonial statesman and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Erected 1897.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Memorial tablet of marble, commemorating visits of Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott Hancock and Theodore Roosevelt to the old Caldwell House. This was a popular hotel on the southeast corner of North Queen Street and East Chestnut Streets. This tablet was placed in the lobby of the first Hotel Brunswick (on the site of the Caldwell House). It was the gift of the Honorable W. U. Hensel, attorney and historian of the Historical Society, of which he was a founding member. Erected in 1915.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Bronze tablet on the site of the White Swan Hotel, south side of Penn Square. This was the leading public house in Lancaster from about 1747 to 1855 - many distinguished visitors were entertained here. Erected in 1924.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Bronze tablet on the site of the Grape Hotel, 30 - 32 North Queen Street, in Lancaster. This was a popular meetin gplace for numerous military groups and committees during the Revolutionary War. Monument erected in 1926.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Bronze tablet on the house at 215 East Orange Street in Lancaster. This was the home of Christopher Marshall (born 1709, died 1795). He resided here from 1777 to 1781. He was a celebrated Philadelphia apothecary and famous for his diary which he kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the Revolutionary War. Monument erected in 1927.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
