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Two notable mining industries of Lancaster County

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Author
Willig, H. Luther.
Date of Publication
1924
, millerite at the Gap mine, and brucite at the Wood mine, dis- covered and operated at these points. Prof. Herbert H. Beck, in his Minerals of Lancaster County, states that these minerals have done more to bring into academic circles of the world the name of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, than any other
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Responsibility
by H. Luther Willig.
Author
Willig, H. Luther.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1924
Physical Description
73-76 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 5
Notes
The last third of this article is entitled "(Comments by W. Frank Gorrecht) on the preceding paper".
Subjects
Gap Copper Mine (Bart Township, Pa.)
Tyson Mining Company (Little Britain Township, Pa.)
Gap Mining Company.
Wood Mine (Little Britain Township, Pa.)
Nickel industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Brucite - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Chromium industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Chromium ores - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Copper mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Nickel mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Gap Nickel Mines (Bart Township, Pa.)
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 5 (1924), p. 73-78Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28
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Report of the committee to place and unveil a marker designating and commemorating the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication
1924
weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1924
Physical Description
129-149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 9
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Indian Town (Conestoga, Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Conestoga Indians.
Paxton Boys.
Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
Conestoga (Pa. : Township) - History.
Additional Author
Magee, Daniel F.
Landis, David H.,
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 9 (1924), p. 129-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28
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Centennial of Penn Hill Meetinghouse, Fulton township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : seventh day, tenth month, (October) 1923

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Date of Publication
1924.
Call Number
289.6 P413
Place of Publication
Quarryville, Pa
Publisher
Sun Printing House,
Date of Publication
1924.
Physical Description
27, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Penn Hill Meeting house (Fulton Township, Pa.).
Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Fulton (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
289.6 P413
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The Columbia race riots

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1922
The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1922
Physical Description
175-187 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 26, no. 8
Subjects
Smith, Eliza D. Lothrop, - d. 1873.
Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Underground railroad - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Riots - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Columbia (Pa.) - History.
Columbia (Pa.) - Race relations.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 26, number 8 (1922), p. 175-187Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.26
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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
Responsibility
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.
Additional Author
Britton, William W.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
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Pastoral records 1808-1835

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Author
Shaffner, Henry B.
Date of Publication
1808-1835.
Call Number
285.8 S525
Author
Shaffner, Henry B.
Date of Publication
1808-1835.
Physical Description
3 vol.; 28 x40 cm.
Notes
Photocopy of manuscripts at Maytown Reformed Church; each page of photocopy contains two pages of manuscript.
Contents
v. 1. Baptisms (Marietta) 1808-1833 (Rineer page 302 #2); Baptisms (Elizabethtown) 1809-1839 (Riner page 165 #1); Baptisms (Manheim) 1810-1837 (Rineer page 260 #2);, Baptisms (Rapho) 1810-1833, Marriages 1808-1837, Burials 1807-1837 (Rineer page 366 #1); v. 2. Baptisms, Baptisms (Elizabethtown); Baptisms (Columbia), (Rineer page 67 #3); Baptisms (Manheim), Marriages 1830-1847, Burials; v. 3. Record of Preaching.
Subjects
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Church Record
Call Number
285.8 S525
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Our merchants princes--old and new

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Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Date of Publication
1924
Lancaster County Historical Society. Among the other prominent retail merchants who formerly carried on business on this location aside from the White Swan hotel property we find that about 1837 James Coyle, father of John A. Coyle, Esq., one of the lead- ing practitioners at the Lancaster Bar, conducted a
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Responsibility
by Mr. A. K. Hostetter.
Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1924
Physical Description
169-172 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 10
Subjects
Demuth Tobacco Shop (Lancaster, Pa.)
Steinman Hardware and Company (Lancaster, Pa.)
Heinitsch Drug Store (Lancaster, Pa.)
Watt & Shand and Company.
Hager and Brothers.
Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Department stores - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 10 (1924), p. 169-172Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28
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The opinion of Judge Cooper on the effect of a sentence of a foreign court of admiralty

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. High Court of Errors and Appeals.
Date of Publication
1810.
Call Number
Book 361 1810
Responsibility
published (with his permission) by Alexander James Dallas.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. High Court of Errors and Appeals.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed for P. Byrne, law book-seller,
Date of Publication
1810.
Physical Description
xii, [1], xiii-xiv, [2], 10-79, [1] p. ; 22 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
"Frank Cooper with his best wishes to Judge Yates" at top of title page.
Book number 361 as assigned by Yeates.
Opinion delivered by the Pennsylvania High Court of Errors and Appeals in the case of Dempsey, assignee of Brown, vs. The Insurance Company of Pennsylvania.
Printed on wove paper.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B² 1² 2-10⁴.
Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,
Shaw, R. American bibliography,
Cohen, M.L. Bibliography of early American law,
Subjects
Dempsey - (Assignee of Brown)
Dempsey, - assignee of Brown.
Insurance Company of Pennsylvania - Trials, litigation, etc.
Insurance Company of Pennsylvania.
Admiralty.
Prize law.
Judgments, Foreign.
Neutrality.
One-half leather and marlbled paper on boards (Binding)
Trials, litigation, etc.
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Dempsey
Dallas, Alexander James,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Insurance Company of Pennsylvania.
Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 361 1810
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Newspapers as historic records

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Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Date of Publication
1922
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.26
Responsibility
by A. K. Hostetter.
Author
Hostetter, Albert K.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1922
Physical Description
155-163 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 26, no. 7
Subjects
New Un-partisan Lancaster Paper and Advertising Directory (Lancaster, Pa.)
American newspapers
German American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.26
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The Female Sunday-School Society of Saint James's Church, Lancaster

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1927
--Lancaster County. Sunday schools--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Episcopalians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 134-139 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 9 & 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1927
Physical Description
134-139 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 9 & 10
Subjects
St. James Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.)
Female Sunday-School Society of Saint James's Church (Lancaster, Pa.)
Episcopal Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Women - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Sunday schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Episcopalians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 31, number 9/10 (1927), p. 134-139Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.31
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