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Date of Publication
1896
Call Number
284 G776
Responsibility
copied by B.F. Owens in 1896.
Place of Publication
Manuscript
Date of Publication
1896
Physical Description
150 p. : 23 cm.
Notes
This handwritten volume is a copy made in 1896.
Gravestone inscriptions from a variety of church cemeteries in Eastern Lancaster County and Western Chester County. Churchtown is in Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County.
Subjects
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (New Holland, Pa.)
Pequea Presbyterian Church (Salisbury Township)
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Chuch (Chester County)
Caernarvon Presbyterian Chuch (Churchtown, Pa.)
Churchtown Methodist Episcopal Church (Churchtown, Pa.)
Great Valley Baptist Church (Chester County)
Cemeteries - Pennsylvania
Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.
Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.
New Holland (Lancaster County, Pa. : Borough) - Genealogy.
Chester County - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
284 G776
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How the New Holland school house was built

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4850
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1898
for 1857, page 278.) At a joint meeting of the School Trustees and the Trustees of the Lu- theran Church, held on May 23, 1857, it was resolved that the school house property, real estate and furniture, as desks and benches, should be sold at public sale on June 20, 1857. At the said sale the property
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Responsibility
by F. R. Diffenderffer.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1898
Physical Description
[181]-212 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 7
Subjects
Schools - Pennsylvania - New Holland
New Holland (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 2, number 7 (1898), p. 181-212Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.2
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Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Date of Publication
1899
village of New Holland, Lancaster county, offering a reward of $100 for the discovery and conviction of the person or persons concerned in entering the church about the 15th or 16th of December, 1819, and destroying the new organ of the church, by re- moving and despoiling the pipes thereof, and taking
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Responsibility
by F. R. Diffenderffer.
Author
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1899
Physical Description
[114]-117 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 5
Subjects
Freemasons - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
German Reformed Church (New Holland, Pa.)
Money - United States
Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz.
Paper money - United States
Vandalism - Pennsylvania - New Holland.
Lititz (Pa.) - History.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 3, number 5 (1899), p. 114-117Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.3
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Atlas of surveys of the county of Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Graves & Steinbarger.
Date of Publication
1978] 1899.
Call Number
912.74815 G776
Responsibility
compiled from actual surveys, city and county records.
Corporate Author
Graves & Steinbarger.
Place of Publication
[Elizabethtown, Pa
Publisher
Elizabethtown Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1978] 1899.
Physical Description
85, [10] p. : chiefly maps ; 46 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Atlas of surveys of Lancaster County, Penna. 1899.
Reprint of the 1899 edition.
Subjects
Real property - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
912.74815 G776
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Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Sanborn Map Company.
Date of Publication
July 1896.
Call Number
912.7481 S198ma
Responsibility
Sanborn Map Company.
Corporate Author
Sanborn Map Company.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Sanborm-Perris Map Co., Limited,
Date of Publication
July 1896.
Physical Description
1 atlas : 6 col. maps; 64 cm.
Notes
Includes index and index map.
Subjects
Real property - Pennsylvania - Marietta - Maps
Insurance, Fire - Marietta (Pa.)
Marietta (Pa.) - Maps
Location
Lancaster History Library - Atlas
Call Number
912.7481 S198ma
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Insurance maps of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author
Sanborn-Perris Map Co.
Date of Publication
1897.
Call Number
912.7481 S198L 1897
Corporate Author
Sanborn-Perris Map Co.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Sanborn-Perris,
Date of Publication
1897.
Physical Description
1 atlas : 63 col. maps ; 65 cm.
Notes
Includes index and index map.
Updated 1901 and 1904.
Subjects
Insurance, fire - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.
Real Property - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps
Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Atlas
Call Number
912.7481 S198L 1897
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Travels in the years 1791 and 1792 in Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont; journals of John Lincklaen, agent of the Holland land company

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4300
Author
Lincklaen, John,
Date of Publication
1897.
Call Number
974.80091 L736
Responsibility
with a biographical sketch and notes.
Author
Lincklaen, John,
Place of Publication
New York, London
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Date of Publication
1897.
Physical Description
1 p. ø., xi, 162, 4 p. ports., fold. maps, facsim. 22 cm.
Notes
500 copies printed.
Edited by Helen L. Fairchild.
"List of principal authorities consulted": p. ix-xi.
Subjects
Holland Purchase.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel.
New York (State) - Description and travel.
Vermont - Description and travel.
Additional Author
Fairchild, Helen L.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80091 L736
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Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house

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Author
Bliss, William Root,
Date of Publication
1894.
Call Number
973.2 B649
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Responsibility
by William Root Bliss.
Author
Bliss, William Root,
Place of Publication
Boston, New York
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company,
Date of Publication
1894.
Physical Description
256 p. 20 cm.
Contents
Chapters: The Meeting House Devil // Rum and Slavery // The Composite Puritan // The Personality of the Meeting House // The Summons To Worship // The Seating of the People // The Wretched Boys // Disturbers of Public Worship // The Neighbors of the Meeting House // The Comedy and Tragedy of the Pulpit // The Poor Parsons // The Notorious Ministers // The Simple Evangelist // The Muse of Choral Song // The Bible and the Confessional // The Hour Glass
Summary
The author uses the Colonial Meeting House as a central focus of the New England town and from it looks to other practices and customs to better illuminate life in the town and New England.
Subjects
Puritans.
Witchcraft - New England.
Slavery - New England.
New England - Social life and customs - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.2 B649
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Pleasant places on the Reading Railroad : a directory of summer resorts, summer boarding houses, summer hotels

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Date of Publication
1895 -.
Call Number
917.48 P544
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Responsibility
compiled and published by the General Passenger Department, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
The Dept.,
Date of Publication
1895 -.
Physical Description
v. : ill. ; 23 cm. or smaller.
Notes
Library has: 1897, 1902, 1906.
Contents
CONTENTS: THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SCHUYLKILL, Norristown Branch and Main Line PICKERING AND FRENCH CREEK VALLEYS, Pickering Valley Branch ON PERKIOMEN'S SHADY BANKS, Perkiomen Railroad ALONG THE MANATAWNY, Colebrookdale Branch 'TWIXT SOUTH MOUNTAIN AND THE BLUE RIDGE, Lebanon Valley Branch THE CONESTOGA REGION, Reading & Columbia Division HISTORIC VALE OF CUMBERLAND, Gettysburg and Shippensburg Lines. ON THE CREST OF THE ALLEGHENIES AMID COLONIAL SCENES, Germantown and Chestnut Hill Branch PENNSYLVANIA'S GARDEN LANDS, Bethlehem Branch NEAR THE NESHAMINY, Northeast Penna, Railroad OUT IN BUCKS COUNTY, Doylestown Branch THE PICTURESQUE DELAWARE VALLEY, New York Branch FOXCHASE AND THEREABOUTS, Philada., Newtown and N. Y. Railroad IN THE PINES AND BY THE SEA, Atlantic City Railroad and Branches ALONG THE LOWER COAST, Cape May Division PICNIC GROUNDS, One Day Outing Resorts
Subjects
Summer resorts - New Jersey - Directories.
Summer resorts - Pennsylvania - Directories.
New Jersey - Description and travel.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel.
Additional Corporate Author
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.48 P544
Websites
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Contributions to the Indian history of the lower Susquehanna Valley : the annual report of the Committee on Archaeology of the Dauphin County Historical Society

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Corporate Author
Historical Society of Dauphin County (Pa.). Committee on Archaeology.
Date of Publication
1898.
Call Number
974.8011 D343
Corporate Author
Historical Society of Dauphin County (Pa.). Committee on Archaeology.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Dauphin County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1898.
Physical Description
67 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Publications of the Dauphin County Historical Society
Notes
Cover title: The Indian history of the lower Susquehanna.
Subjects
Susquehanna Indians.
Archaeology - Susquehanna River Valley.
Indians of North America - Susquehanna River Valley.
Susquehanna River Valley.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 D343
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