Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
Pilot Jesse Jones at the controls of Ryan Brougham B-5 airplane owned by Howard M. Hersh at leased to Lancaster Airways, Inc. under an agreement dated November 8, 1929. This was the first enclosed cabin airplane available for passenger service at the Manheim Pike airport which had been established by Jones in 1927.
Photograph- Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
Photograph- Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
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Building #1 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 83.
Photograph- Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
Photograph- Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
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Building #2 of Lancaster County Almshouse from J. J. Mombert's "Authentic History of Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania". See LCHS Journal Vol. 102, issue 2/3, page 90.
Group of men seated in Old Recorder's Office, second floor of the Courthouse. Identified left to right: Wm. Egerty Esq., Paul Mohler, Isaac Bechtel, Jay Caskey, W. Fryberger, Ann E. Davis Esq., Jacob Byrne, Esq., Ezra Brenner, O.P. Bricker, Esq., H. Nissley, Recorder, Geo. Keith, Dep.
The following note is also enclosed with the photo: "D. S. - The "Court House Isalnd patent" is for Bush Island in Manor Twp. The island location, as described in 1811, is: 150 perches from Lancaster shore, opposite the land of Isaac Kaufman and 3 perches below Archibald Hudder's Island. R. G."
