and Content Note: The Advertising and Promotional Collection contains materials for a wide variety of businesses and organizations in Lancaster County, including manufacturers, department and clothing stores, entertainment venues, grocery stores, restaurants, service providers, and social clubs. Of

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Geist Family Papers, 1865-1961 Object ID: MG0294 1 box 12 folders .5 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 8 Scope and Content Note: The

717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org active in the Lancaster County Historical Society, the Pennsylvania German Society, the Ben Franklin Club, and Grace Lutheran Church. He wrote poetry and essays, and dedicated many pieces to friends and family. David B. Landis married Nora K. Baker of Landisville in 1885

accurate record of who was sinning and where. A large collection of his notebooks rests in the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society. One must admire the persistence and tenacity of the Law and Order Society agents as they went about their unpopular business. With the arrival of Prohibition

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Elser Family. Mills and mill-work--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 51-59 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16

County. Most of the Scots eventually moved westward across the Susquehanna River to the middle and western parts of Pennsylvania. They left in their wake a heritage of learning that continued to influence most powerfully those Scots who remained here. Their insistence upon an educated clergy brought

CB, 2008. Series 2, Folders 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. This collection has been documented, preserved, and managed according to professional museum and archives standards. The collection was cataloged using DACS conventions. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

Manheim Township and Its Part in the Indian History of the County This society has often been favored by papers on the way in which vari- ous sections of what is now Lancaster county figured in the history of the dusky-skinned inhabitants who knew this section to be their home and hap- py hunting

Assessment Lists and Other Doc- uments of Lancaster County Prior to the Year 1729. About the only original Lancaster county manuscript documents, now known, dating before 1729 are: A cer- tified copy of the petition for the erec- tion of our county, signed in 1728; the letters, drafts, surveys and