The fourth book in a series of photographic histories of the county illustrates how Lancastrians participated in times of war. From the Civil War to the Iraq war , from the homefront to the trenches, whether gathering scrap or going off to foreign lands.
Lancaster County contains the most concentrated record of Native American habitation in all of Pennsylvania, with 1,470 unique archeological sites cataloged as of January 2008. Topics in this resource include the following: the Susquehannocks; the Schultz Site; the Washington Boro Site; the Roberts Site; the Frey-Haverstick Site; the Strickler Site; the Oscar Leibhart Site; the Byrd Leibhart Site; the Nanticokes; Peter Bezaillion; Martin Chartier; the Conestoga Massacre; and others.
The third book in a series of photographic histories of the county highlights how Lancastrians had fun and spent their leisure time from the late 1800s to 1970. Its chapters cover a wide range of subjects-from amusement parks to swimming holes to movie theaters to athletic events.
From Lancaster to the moon : recounting the 1960's and 1970's in Lancaster, Pennsylvania through the pages of Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster New Era, Sunday News
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.103, no.2.
Contents
From slavery to freedom--middle class African-Americans in Lancaster County (Hannah Bosley, William Whipper, Stephen Smith, Dinah McIntire)--Joseph Simon: Jewish merchant and philanthropist of the eighteenth century--Firefighting in early Lancaster--Family history at the Lancaster County Historical Society (Demuth family history)--Cooking in the County--Blanche Nevin--Lloyd Mifflin: artist and sonneteer--The bridge at Columbia--Ephrata Cloister--A distinguished military family (Henry A. Hambright)--A midwife (Susana Rohrer Mueller)--John Wise, balloonist (1808-1879)--Jasper Yeates, attorney and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice--Thaddeus Stevens--Robert Fulton, engineer and artist--"Gold!" (John Augustus Sutter)--George Washington--Oddities and the END.
