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Columbia's favorite son : Gen. Thomas Welsh, the man and the myth Preceedings of a symposium Saturday October 25, 2008 / edited by Richard C. Wiggin

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Date of Publication: ca. 2009

Call Number: 923.5 W461c

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: ca. 2009

Physical Description: 65 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: From cover: Sponsored jointly by : The Columbia Public Library and the Columbia Historic Preservation Society.

Subjects: Welsh, Thomas, - 1824-1863.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Military biography; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Biography; Columbia (Pa.) - History

Additional Corporate Author: The Columbia Public Library (Pa.); The Columbia Historic Preservation Society (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 W461c

A reference map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania showing the location and distances of the city, townships, boroughs, post-office and villages, together with the main roads (turnpikes), railroads and railroad stations, also the population of each township and borough as per census of 1890

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Date of Publication: 1891

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 140

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Burk & McFetridge,lith., Reference Map Co.,

Date of Publication: 1891

Physical Description: 1 map : linen ; 54 x 56 cm.

Notes: Shows radial distances from Lancaster. Relief shown by hachures. Cloth map. Includes index of places by township.

Subjects: Toll roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 140

Record of soldiers of Lancaster County in the War of 1812, and of others who gave service during the period of 1784-1815

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Author: Landis, Bertha Cochran.

Date of Publication: 1938

: b. Feb. 1, 1769; d. June 26, 1816, in 48th year. Wife, Dorothy Hand. Served as major in Pa. Militia, 1797. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 4, pp. 468, 588. Pvt. in Capt. Shippen's Co., the "Lancaster County Dragoons." Klein's Hist. of Lancaster Co., Pa., Vol. 2, p. 596. Buried in St. James's Episcopal

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Responsibility: by (Mrs. D.B.) Bertha Cochran Landis and Eleanore J. Fulton.

Author: Landis, Bertha Cochran.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1938

Physical Description: [157]-178 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 42, no. 6

Subjects: Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 42, number 6 (1938), p. 157-178Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.42

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Digging up details of ordinary lives : an archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA

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Author: Ruth, Phil Johnson.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 974.8011 R974

Alternate Title: Archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA

Responsibility: investigation conducted by Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. (CHRS) ; sponsored and funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in consultation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Author: Ruth, Phil Johnson.

Place of Publication: North Wales, Pa

Publisher: Cultural Heritage Research Services,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 66 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Principal author: Philip Ruth ..."--t.p. verso.

Subjects: Cultural property - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Excavations (Archaeology) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Highway planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Leaman Place (Pa.) - Antiquities.; Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Antiquities.

Additional Corporate Author: Cultural Heritage Research Services.; Pennsylvania. Dept. of Transportation.; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 974.8011 R974

"The wealth of years" : collecting and remembering Lancaster County; an exhibit at the Lancaster County Historical Society December 2000-June 2001

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Date of Publication: 2001.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: 52-104 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: 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.

Subjects: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - Exhibitions.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 103, number 2 (2001), p. 52-104Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.103, no.2

The career, thoughts, and vivid dreams of 19th century naturalist Simon Snyder Rathvon

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Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Date of Publication: 2002.

Responsibility: by Thomas R. Winpenny.

Author: Winpenny, Thomas R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society ,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: p.140-155 : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.104, no.3

Subjects: Rathvon, Simon Snyder, - 1812-1891.; Naturalists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 104, number 3 (2002), p. 140-155Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.104, no.3

History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania

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Author: Smedley, R. C.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 973.7115 S637 2005

Responsibility: R.C. Smedley ; introduction by Christopher Densmore.

ISBN: 0811731898

Author: Smedley, R. C.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Notes: Originally published: Lancaster, Pa. : Office of the Journal, 1883.; Includes index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: This book was written in 1883 by Robert Clemons Smedley, a Chester County Pennsylvania physician who interviewed participants in the underground railroad. He was not a historian and was not unbiased. But he is considered to have been conscientious in his efforts to record the stories he was told. He wrote about events as described to him by person who themselves were involved, both those fleeing slavery and those assisting them.Topics in chapters 1 & 2 include William Wright and Columbia, PA. Chapter 8 is about the "Christiana Tragedy".

Subjects: Underground railroad - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Underground railroad - Pennsylvania.; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Chester County; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Chester County; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Biography.; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Biography.; Chester County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 S637 2005

The Amish of Lancaster County

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Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 289.71 K89

Responsibility: text by Donald B. Kraybill ; photography by Daniel Rodriguez.

ISBN: 9780811734783 (pbk.); 0811734781 (pbk.)

Author: Kraybill, Donald B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: 88 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Pictorial works.; Community life - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Ethnic relations.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Rodriguez, Daniel

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.71 K89

Map of the public roads in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the State Highway Department by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 31, 1911

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Highways.

Edition: Rev. Feb. 1931.

Date of Publication: 1931.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 514 Oversize

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Highways.

Edition: Rev. Feb. 1931.

Place of Publication: [Harrisburg, Pa.]

Publisher: Pennsylvania Dept. of Highways,

Date of Publication: 1931.

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 116 x 114 cm.

Notes: Map includes route numbers, railroads, streams, and important building locations.; "January 1912."

Subjects: Transportation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 514 Oversize

Commemorative biographical encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley : comprising the counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania, containing sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settlers

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Date of Publication: 1897.

Call Number: 974.80092 J95

Place of Publication: Chambersburg, Pa

Publisher: J.M. Runk & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1897.

Physical Description: 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subjects: Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - Biography.; Huntingdon County (Pa.) - Biography.; Mifflin County (Pa.) - Biography.; Juniata County (Pa.) - Biography.; Perry County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80092 J95

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