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Postcard

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Collection: Postcard Collection

Object ID: 992-060

Date Range: before 1907

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Object Name: Postcard

Collection: Postcard Collection

Description: Lady Gay paddleboat at Witmer's Bridge on the Conestoga River

Date Range: before 1907

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Search Terms: Lady Gay; Paddle boats; Paddle steamers; Witmer's Bridge; Conestoga River; Bridges

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Postcard

Print Size: 3.5 x 5.5 inches

Publisher: The American News Company, New York

Condition: Good

Object ID: 992-060

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Lancaster City and County Scenes Album

Object ID: A-34-01-04

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Lancaster City and County Scenes Album

Description: The Conestoga River below Witmer's Bridge. Bridge and Lady Gay paddleboat are in background.

Year Range From: 1898

Year Range To: 1905

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Boats; Bridges; Stone arch bridges; Witmer's Bridge; Conestoga River

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 3 x 3 inches

Object ID: A-34-01-04

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Lancaster City and County Scenes Album

Object ID: A-34-01-90

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Lancaster City and County Scenes Album

Description: View of the Conestoga River with Witmer's Bridge and the Lady Gay paddleboat in the background.

Year Range From: 1898

Year Range To: 1905

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Boats; Bridges; Stone arch bridges; Witmer's Bridge; Conestoga River

Place: Lancaster

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 5 x 7 inches

Object ID: A-34-01-90

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Documents

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Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Object ID: CommOrder 1827 #365

Date Range: 1827

Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Description: This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.

System of Arrangement: The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.

Date Range: 1827

Date of Accumulation: 1810-1901

Creator: County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0007

People: Deitrich, Michael; Dietrich, Philip

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Lancaster; Bridges; Conestoga River; Witmer's Bridge; Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Place: Lancaster

Extent: 70 boxes (35 cubic tabard.)

Object Name: Documents

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: 2008-03-25

Object ID: CommOrder 1827 #365

Box Number: 007

Notes: Entered into Q & A Jun 7, 2001.

Additional Notes: Bridges.; Payment for Witmer's Bridge.; Deitrich, Michael. Administrator for Dietrich, Philip, deceased.; See also CommOrder 1827 #356 and CommOrder 1827 #357.; 1 item. 1 piece.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 08-01 0510

Description Level: Item

Documents

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Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Object ID: CommOrder 1831 #108

Collection: Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Title: Commissioners' order for payment

Description: This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.

System of Arrangement: The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.

Date of Accumulation: 1810-1901

Year: 1831

Creator: County Commissioners

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0011

People: Eberman, John

Search Terms: Bridges; Lancaster; Conestoga River; Witmer's Bridge; Commissioners' Orders for Payment

Place: Lancaster

Extent: 70 boxes (35 cubic ft.)

Object Name: Documents

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: 2008-03-25

Object ID: CommOrder 1831 #108

Box Number: 011

Notes: Entered into Q&A Aug 7, 2001.

Additional Notes: Bridges.; Payment of interest on mortgage on Abraham Witmer's bridge.; Eberman, John. Cashier, Farmers First Bank.; 1 item. 1 piece.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at research desk. Photocopy made by staff member.

Classification: RG 08-01 0510

Description Level: Item

Postcard

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Collection: Postcard Collection

Title: Pequea looking southeast across the creek

Object ID: 974-058

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Object Name: Postcard

Collection: Postcard Collection

Title: Pequea looking southeast across the creek

Description: Pretty Pequea - Looking southeast across the creek. Reverse is ad for Teachers' Vacation Fund Contest for the three most popular teachers, one vote with each pound of coffee from Mack the Coffee Man, contest starts December 1st, 1908, closes June 30 1909.

Year Range From: 1908

Year Range To: 1909

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subject: Postcards

Classification: 974-058

Search Terms: Pequea, Martic Twp.; Conestoga River; Bridges; Houses; Contests; Advertising; Teachers' Vacation Fund Contest; Mack the Coffee Man

Place: Martic Twp.

Object Name: Postcard

Print Size: 3.5 x 5.5 inches

Publisher: Express Printing Co., Publishers

Object ID: 974-058

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Archive

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Collection: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Title: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Object ID: MG0217

Date Range: 1809-1843

Content Note: The Columbia Bridge Company Collection is a valuable source of information concerning construction of bridges in the early 1800s. Documents concern the building of the first two bridges across the Susquehanna River in 1814 and 1832. Items in the collection include minutes, form for stock

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Collection: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Title: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Description: The Columbia Bridge Company Collection is a valuable source of information concerning construction of bridges in the early 1800s. Documents concern the building of the first two bridges across the Susquehanna River in 1814 and 1832. Items in the collection include minutes, form for stock certificate, invoices, legal papers, proposals, receipts, stockholders, promissory notes, by-laws, settlement of stage tolls with Samuel Slaymaker 1813, salary receipts, circulars and announcements, bridge tolls, orders for payment, correspondence, and a stock certificate from 1842

Admin/Biographical History: First Bridge; Construction of the first Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge was begun in 1812 and completed December 5, 1814, by J. Wolcott, H. Slaymaker, S. Slaymaker at a total cost of $231,771, which was underwritten by the newly formed Columbia Bank and Bridge Company. The bridge was 5,690 feet (1,730 m) long and 30 feet (9.1 m) wide and had 54 piers and twin carriageways. Constructed of wood and stone, the covered bridge also included a wooden roof, a whitewashed interior and openings in its wooden sides to view the river and surrounding areas. It was considered the longest covered bridge in the world at the time. The bridge accommodated east-west traffic across the Susquehanna River for 14 years before being destroyed by ice, high water and severe weather on February 5, 1832.; Second bridge; Construction of the second Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, also covered, started mid-1832 and was completed in 1834 (opening on July 8, 1834) by James Moore and John Evans at a cost of $157,300. It was 5,620 feet (1,710 m) long and 28 feet (8.5 m) wide and also enjoyed the distinction of being the world's longest covered bridge. The wood and stone structure had 27 piers, a carriageway, walkway, and two towpaths to guide canal traffic across the river. Much of the mostly oak timber used in its construction was salvaged from the previous bridge. Its roof was covered with shingles, its sides with weatherboard, and its interior was whitewashed. The structure was modified in 1840 by the Canal Company at a cost of $40,000 concurrent with the construction of the Wrightsville Dam. Towpaths of different levels and with sidewalls were added to prevent horses from falling into river, as happened several times when the river flooded. The roof of the lower path formed the floor of upper path. In this way, canal boats were towed across the river from the Pennsylvania Canal on the Columbia side to the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal at Wrightsville. Sometime after 1846, a double-track railway was added, linking the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad to the Northern Central Railway. Due to fear of fire caused by locomotives, rail cars were pulled across the bridge by teams of mules or horses.; Information from "Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%E2%80%93Wrightsville_Bridge. Accessed 3 February 2020.

System of Arrangement: The papers of the First Columbia Bridge built in 1814 are filed in folders #1 to 157. The papers of the Second Columbia Bridge built in 1832 are filed in folders #158 to 181.

Date Range: 1809-1843

Year Range From: 1809

Year Range To: 1843

Date of Accumulation: 1809-1843

Creator: Goodell, Robert Hilliard, 1899-1992.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 05

People: Albright, William; Chew, Benjamin; Coleman, Robert; Dickson, William; Gilpin, Joshua; Gilpin, Thomas; Grimler, Benjamin; Haldeman, C.; Hamilton, William; Harbaugh, Leonard; Hoff, John; Hopkins, James; Hubley, John; Hubley, Joseph; Lloyd, Evan; Mifflin, Joseph; Poulson, Zachariah; Reynolds, John; Rittenhouse, Joseph; Shaffner, Casper; Slaymaker, Henry; Slaymaker, Samuel; Varle, Charles; Wilson, Edward; Wilson, Thomas A.; Witmer, A.; Wright, William; Wolcott, John

Subjects: Bridges; Business records; Columbia (Pa.); Letters; Minutes (Records); Stockholders; Stocks; Susquehanna River

Search Terms: Advertising; Applications; Board of Directors; Bonds; Bridges; Broadsides; Business records; By-laws; Checks; Columbia; Columbia Bridge Company; Construction; Contracts; Correspondence; Farmers Bank of Lancaster; Financial records; Finding aids; Gatekeepers; Invoices; Letters; Loans; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Murray Draper and Company; Promissory notes; Receipts; Reports; Salaries; Stockholders; Stocks; Susquehanna River; Taxes; Tollhouses; Tolls

Extent: 5 boxes, 190 folders, 3 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0217

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. The original items in Folder 69 may not be used due to their fragile condition. All other original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-217

Classification: MG0217

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 13 January 2022.

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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Diffenderfer Album 1

Object ID: A-36-01-39

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Diffenderfer Album 1

Description: Page 39: Horse and carriage, "Wabank Road near New Danville"; Slackwater Road, Millersville, August 1902; Old tavern, Slackwater; Lancaster County farm scene near Millersville, Agust 1902; Electrick Light Station in the distance - Slackwater, August 1902"; Slackwater bridge.

Provenance: First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.