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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

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Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
  6 websites  
Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Physical Description
pp. 84-90 , 182-190 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
This article was serialized across several issues. This record provides links to each installment. Most of the links are from the publisher's official online repository, although two parts were only available on the HathiTrust online depository.
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volumes 42 (p. 1-28, 127-140, 235-258, & 358-360) & 43 (p. 84-90 and 182-190).
Summary
The author writes about the " Kings Highway ", the first road from Philadelphia to the Lancaster area, and he then recounts the building of the Philadelphia to Lancaster Turnpike. The third part of his article describes the various taverns and points of interest along the Lancaster County portion of the Turnpike.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Roads - Pennsylvania.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Phladelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

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Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1918.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1918.
Physical Description
pp. 1-28 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.42.
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turmpike Road.
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The Juliana Library Company in Lancaster

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12195
Author
Landis, Charles Israel,
Date of Publication
1919.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.43
  1 website  
Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Physical Description
pp. 228-250 23 cm.
Notes
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , v. 43.
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Juliana Library Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Subscription libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.43
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Physical and industrial geography of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, by H. Justin Roddy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2043
Author
Roddy, H. Justin
Date of Publication
1916.
Call Number
917.4815 R686
  1 website  
Author
Roddy, H. Justin
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New era printing company,
Date of Publication
1916.
Physical Description
vi, 113 p. illus., pl., fold. maps, diagr. 24 cm.
Subjects
Physical geography - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Industries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
917.4815 R686
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Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution : at "Indian Rock", Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday P.M., September 20, cmmxii

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19384
Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
923.5 H236c
  1 website  
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
s.l.]
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
8 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Notes
Order of exercises and songs laid in.
Summary
Program from the ceremony to commemorate Lancaster County's involvement in the American Revolution. The order of events in the ceremony is included. Also includes a chronology of Lancaster County's participation in events related to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, citing General Edward Hand's activities. A genealogy of the Hand family is included in the program.
Subjects
Hand, Edward , - 1744-1802.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 H236c
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... Old home week and Hope Hose company no. 1 centennial, Manheim, Pennsylvania June 30 to July 5, 1912

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16046
Date of Publication
1912?
Call Number
749 D754 1914
  1 website  
Place of Publication
S.l
Publisher
Published by the Committee on Print. and Advertising,
Date of Publication
1912?
Physical Description
xvi, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
At head of title: 1812--Souvenir book--1912.
Includes advertisements.
Bound with The Bible in Iron and A brief History of Lancaster.
Subjects
Hope Hose Fire company no. 1.
Fire departments - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Manheim (Pa.) - History.
Additional Corporate Author
Hope Hose Fire company no. 1. Centennial committee.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
749 D754 1914
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Home authors - Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1784
Author
Straughn, William R.
Date of Publication
1913
Call Number
810 S912
  1 website  
Author
Straughn, William R.
Place of Publication
Chautauqua, N.Y
Publisher
Union Book Company
Date of Publication
1913
Physical Description
192 p. ill. 19 cm.
Notes
Includes appendix
Contents
Peace to the brave (Poem) - Give us a place to play (Poem) - I've gotta go to school (Poem) - Be a good boy; Good-bye (Poem)
Summary
The book , written in 1913 , was intended by the author to show school students that there was good litterature being written in their time in their state. Writings by the following authors are included: Bayard Taylor -- Thomas Buchanan Read -- Charles Godfrey Leland -- Stephen Collins Foster -- Frank R. Stockton -- S. Wier Mitchell -- Lloyd Mifflin -- Elizabeth Lloyd -- Thomas Allibone Janvier -- Henry van Dyke-- Owen Wister -- John L. Shroy -- Richard Harding Davis -- Elsie Singmaster
Subjects
Mifflin, Lloyd, - 1846-1921.
Shroy, John L, - 1864-
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
810 S912
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Short sketches of the president judges of Lancaster County whose portraits have been placed in the county court house, by Hon. Charles I. Landis

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Author
Landis, Charles I.
Date of Publication
1913.
Call Number
343.334 L257
  1 website  
Author
Landis, Charles I.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New era Print. Co.,
Date of Publication
1913.
Physical Description
20 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Rebound in one-quarter brown leather and linen with marbled end papers.
Rebound with original letters from the judges, signatures cut from other documents affixed under photrographs of the judges, inerspersed photograms and engravings taken from other texts.
With: History of the District Court of the city and county of Lancaster / Charles I Landis. Lancaster, Pa. : The New Era Printing Company, 1914.
Subjects
Judges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
343.334 L257
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Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20690
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Date of Publication
1805 [i.e. 1806].
Call Number
Book 28 1805
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by John Burnside.,
Date of Publication
1805 [i.e. 1806].
Physical Description
478 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 28 as assigned by Yeates.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--Page 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--Page 478.
Report of a committee 21 pages printed by William Hamilton.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Full tooled leather binding with maroon title on spine.
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Employees.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania - Officials and employees.
Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Burnside, John,
Yeates, Jaspe,r
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 28 1805
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Jacob Eichholtz, painter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14691
Author
Hensel, W.U.
Date of Publication
1913.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.37
  1 website  
Responsibility
William U. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, W.U.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1913.
Physical Description
pp. 48-75 ; 23 cm.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 37.
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Eichholtz, Jacob, - 1776-1842.
Artists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.37
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Index to the journal of the convention who framed the present Constitution, and of the convention in committee of the whole. : Also, a concise index to the Constitution itself

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21604
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention
Date of Publication
1808.
Call Number
Book 585 1808
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention
Place of Publication
Philadelphia [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by John Bioren, No. 88, Chesnut-Street.,
Date of Publication
1808.
Physical Description
20 p. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 585 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Bound with Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia, Henry Miller, 1776 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...Philadelpha: Hall and Sellers, 1787 - Minutes of the convention of the commonwealth of Pennshvania...Philadelphia: Zacharia Poulson, 1789 - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,..Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, 1789. - Minutes of the grand committee of the whole convention of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania...the twenty-fourth day of November 1790.
Subjects
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania. - Constitutional Convention - (1789-1790)
Politics and government.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Three-quarters leather on blue boards.
No spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 585 1808
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The German newspapers of Lebanon County

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Author
Millers, Daniel.
Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 5
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Daniel Millers.
Author
Millers, Daniel.
Place of Publication
[Lebanon, Pa. : s. n. ]
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
p. [132 - 150 : 24 cm.
Series
Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses, v. V, no. 4.
Subjects
German American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 5
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Seeing Lancaster county from a trolley window

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6536
Author
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner.
Date of Publication
1910
Call Number
917.4815 K92
  1 website  
Author
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Conestoga traction company
Date of Publication
1910
Physical Description
80 p. illus. 25 cm.
Notes
Reprinted from the "Pennsylvania-German."
Summary
A 1910 sightseeing tour of Lancaster County published by the trolley company. It is divided into destinations, citing locations and detailed history along each trip.There are many photographs and illustrations included. Tours to Lancaster, Marietta, Elizabethtown, Pequea, Quarryville, The "East End" of the county, Terre Hill, Ephrata and Adamstown, Lititz and Manheim, and a section on Lancaster "in days of yore."
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
917.4815 K92
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The life and times of Col. John Siegfried, by Rev. John Baer Stoudt. Prepared at the request of the Col. John Siegfried memorial committee and issued in connection with the unveiling of the monument on the old Mennonite cemetery on West Twenty-first street, Memorial day, May 30, 1914, in Northampton,PA

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7193
Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Date of Publication
1914.
Call Number
974.822 S889
  1 website  
Author
Stoudt, John Baer,
Place of Publication
Northampton, Pa
Publisher
The Cement news print.,
Date of Publication
1914.
Physical Description
62, [3] p. : illus., plates, ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Colonel Siegfried had commanded a militia in South Central Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
Subjects
Siegfried, John, - 1745-1793.
Northampton County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.822 S889
Websites
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Journal of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : which commenced at Lancaster, the third day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. : Volume XVI

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19278
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Date of Publication
1805 [i.e., 1806].
Call Number
090 L244bu 1805 v. 16
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by John Burnside.,
Date of Publication
1805 [i.e., 1806].
Physical Description
478 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 3, 1805 and concluded Mar. 31, 1806.
"Appointments made by the governor of Pennsylvania, since March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred, (the date of the last report of the secretary of the commonwealth, to the legislature) with the dates of their commissions, and the names of their sureties ..."--p. 423-461.
"Expiration of the appointments of the members of Senate."--p. 478.
Copy 1 "Jacob Weaver 1827" and Copy 2 inscribed "Amos Slaymaker" on cover.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania - Officials and employees.
Additional Author
Burnside, John,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 L244bu 1805 v. 16
Websites
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Journal of the seventeenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six, and of the commonwealth the thirty-first

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20691
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Date of Publication
1806 [i.e. 1807].
Call Number
Book 28a 1806
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by William Hamilton, West King-Street.,
Date of Publication
1806 [i.e. 1807].
Physical Description
876, xxxix, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Journal of the session which began Dec. 2, 1806 and concluded Apr. 13, 1807.
Error in paging: p. 496 misnumbered 474.
Last page blank.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 28 as assigned by Yeates
"Index to the Journal of the seventeenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Lancaster: Printed by William Hamilton, West King-Street. 1807"--Xxxix p., 2nd count. With separate title page.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Hamilton, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 28a 1806
Websites
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Journal of the first session of the thirteenth House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Lancaster, on Tuesday, the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and two

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20599
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. House of Representatives
Date of Publication
1802.
Call Number
Yeates Book 24b 1802
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. House of Representatives
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by George Helmfold, Junior,
Date of Publication
1802.
Physical Description
679 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 24 as assigned by Yeates.
Full leather binding with morocco spine label and printed label Yeates 168 above..
Subjects
Legislative journals - Pennsylvania.
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 24b 1802
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Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4460
Author
Elliott, Ella Zerbey
Date of Publication
1916.
Call Number
974.817 E46
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Mrs. Ella Zerbey Elliott.
Author
Elliott, Ella Zerbey
Place of Publication
Pottsville, Pa
Publisher
Pottsville, Pa. "Republican", Joseph Zerbey, proprietor,
Date of Publication
1916.
Physical Description
456 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Genealogy - Pennsylvania.
Schuylkill County (Pa.) - History.
Schuylkill County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.817 E46
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Moravian influence in the settlement and early development of Lebanon County : paper read before the Lebanon County Historical Society, December 19, 1913

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19313
Author
Hark, J. Max
Date of Publication
1913
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 6 no. 8
  1 website  
Responsibility
by J. Max Hark.
Author
Hark, J. Max
Place of Publication
Lebanon County, Pa
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1913
Physical Description
[191]-204 p ; 24 cm.
Series
Paper read before the Lebanon County Historical Society ; v. 6, no. 8
Subjects
Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County
Lebanon County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 6 no. 8
Websites
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Memoranda concerning the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, etc

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7780
Author
Wright, Samuel C.
Date of Publication
1917
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.21
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Col. Samuel C. Wright.
Author
Wright, Samuel C.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1917
Physical Description
8-10 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 21, no. 1
Summary
The article discusses the choice of the path of this railway in the 1820's in Pennsylvania.
Subjects
Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad.
Railroads - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.21
Websites
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