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The Lancaster Cemetery and Woodward Hill Cemetery Lancaster, Pennsylvania, preservation needs assessment for the Historic Trust of Lancaster County funded by the Lancaster County Foundation

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Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 352.72 H673

Responsibility: prepared by Landscapes : landscape architecture, planning, historic preservation.

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: [iii] 61 + appendices unpaged : ill., maps. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "with the assistance of David Schuyler, Historian."

Subjects: Historic Trust of Lancaster County (Lancaster, Pa.).; Woodward Hill cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.) - Planning.; The Lancaster Cemetery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Planning.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania; Lancaster County, Pa. - Planning.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.72 H673

"Indications...of progress in taste and refinement" : the Lancaster and Woodward Hill Cemeteries

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Author: Schuyler, David.

Date of Publication: 1991.

of Woodward Hill, was also an investor in the Conestoga Steam Cotton Mills, a director of several banks, owner of Fulton Hall, and a trustee of Franklin �76 JOURNAL Fig. 9. Monument to John N. Lane, Lancaster Cemetery, carved by Julian Augustus Beck, 1857. �93/3, 1991 77 Fig. 10. Monument to former

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Responsibility: by David Schuyler.

Author: Schuyler, David.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: [66]-83 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.93, no. 3

Subjects: Lancaster Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.); Woodward Hill Cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.); Cemeteries; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 93, number 3 (1991), p. 66-83Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.93

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Kit of teaching resource leaflets

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Date of Publication: 1980-1997.

Call Number: 736.5 M354k

Place of Publication: Greenfield, Mass

Publisher: Association for Gravestone Studies,

Date of Publication: 1980-1997.

Physical Description: 18 leaflets : ill. ; 28 cm.

Series: AGS publications

Notes: Caption title.; Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: No. 1 Analyzing cemetery data / Rosalee Oakley -- No. 2 Cemeteries listed in the National Register of Historic Places / Sybil F. Crawford -- No. 3 Guide to forming a "Cemetery Friends" organization / Sybil F. Crawford -- No. 4 Cleaning masonary burial monuments / Tracy L. Coffing -- No. 5 Gravestone rubbing for beginners / Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 6 Basic guide to Carver research / Jessie Lie Farber -- No 7 Making photographic records of gravestones / Daniel Farber and Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 8 Symbolism in the carvings on old gravestones / AGS members -- No. 9 Model legislation / Theodore Chase -- No. 10 Making replicas of gravestone designs / Roberta Halporn -- No. 11 Reading weathered marbles tombstones / John E. Sterling -- No. 12 The care of old cemeteries & gravestones / Lance R. Meyer -- No. 13 A technique for the experienced rubber / Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 14 How to create a new base / W. Fred Oakley, Jr. -- No. 15 Recommendations for the care of gravestones / Jessie Lie Farber -- No. 16 What do you do when you find a "lost" gravestone / Laurel Gabel, Jo Goeselt, Marchia Melnyk, Barbara Rotundo -- No. 17 Recording cemetery data / F. Joanne Baker and Daniel Farber -- No. 18 Discussion and research topics / Barbara Rotundo.

Subjects: Crown Hill Cemetery (Indianapolis, Ind.); Sepulchral monuments; Cemeteries; Rubbing.; Symbolism in art.

Additional Author: Farber, Jessie Lie.; Oakley, Rosalee Points,; Rotundo, Barbara.; Halporn, Roberta.; Fredette, Fred.; Cornish, Michael.; Mayer, Lance.

Additional Corporate Author: Association for Gravestone Studies.; Indianapolis Foundation.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 736.5 M354k

Lancaster County : the red rose of Pennsylvania

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L863L; 974.815 LACO L863La

Responsibility: John Ward Willson Loose ; "Partners in Progress" by Gary G. Martin and Donald L. Collins.

ISBN: 1884166032 :

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Canoga Park, CA

Publisher: CCA Publications,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: [6], 158 p.: ill., some col. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Chamber of Commerce (Lancaster, Pa.).; Lancaster County Historical Society (Lancaster, Pa.).; Lancasater Malleable Castings, Co. (Lancaster, Pa.).; J. Walter Miller Company (Lancaster, Pa.).; Raub Supply Company (Lancaster, Pa.).; Alumax Mill Products (Lancaster, Pa.).; High Industries, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).; Federal-Mogul Corporation (Lancaster, Pa.).; Serta Mattress Company (Lancaster, Pa.).; Cassey Engineering (Salunga, Pa.).; Lancaster Labratories (Lancaster, Pa.).; Ford New Holland (New Holland, Pa.).; Liberty Sign and Can Company (Lancastaear, Pa.).; J. L. Clark, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).; Simon Ladder Towers, Inc. (Leola, Pa.).; Lancaster Paint and Glass (Lancaster, Pa. ).; Wickersham Construction and Engineering, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).; SICO Company (Mt. Joy, Pa.).; Denver and Ephrata Telephone and Telegraph Company (Pa.).; Bank of Lancaster County (Pa.).; Fulton Bank (Lancaster, Pa).; CoreStates Hamilton Bank (Lancaster, Pa.); Dauphin Deposit Bank (Pa.); Ross, Buehler, Falk and Company (Pa.).; Community Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.).; Lancaster General Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.).; St. Joseph Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.); Corporate Healthcare Strategies, Inc. (Pa.); Warner-Lambert Company (Pa.).; Lancasater Bible College (Lancaster, Pa.).; Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.).; Acorn Press (Pa.).; Lancaster Newspapers (Lancaster, Pa.).; John Cope's Food Products (Pa.).; Dutch Gold Honey (Pa.).; Kellogg Company (Pa.).; Stauffers of Kissel Hill (Pa.).; Hammond Pretzel Bakery (Lancaster, Pa.).; Zimmerman Foods (Pa.).; Turkey Hill Dairy (Pa.).; Wilbur Chocolate Company (Lititz, Pa.); Groff's Farm Restaurant (Pa.).; Hotel Brunswick (Lancaster, Pa.).; Eden Resort Inn (Lancaster, Pa.).; Bulova Technologies (Lancaster, Pa.); Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference; Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L863L; 974.815 LACO L863La

Plan of Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa

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Date of Publication: [ca. 1900].

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 703

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: [s.n.] ,

Date of Publication: [ca. 1900].

Physical Description: 1 map : photocopy : 58 x 80 cm.

Notes: Gives section and lot numbers.

Subjects: Woodward Hill cemetery (Lancaster, Pa.) - Maps.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 703

Gravestones of early New England and the men who made them, 1653-1800

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Author: Forbes, Harriette Merrifield,

Date of Publication: 1955.

Call Number: 736.5 F693

Responsibility: by Harriette Merrifield Forbes, with illustrations from photographs by the author.

Author: Forbes, Harriette Merrifield,

Place of Publication: Princeton

Publisher: The Pyne Press,

Date of Publication: 1955.

Physical Description: 5 p. l., 141 p. front., plates. 27 cm.

Notes: "An unabridged republication of the first edition published by Houghton Mifflin Comapny in 1927, this Pyne Press edition is published by special arrangement with Houghton Miffiln Company."

Subjects: Sepulchral monuments - New England.; Sepulchral monuments - Massachusetts - Boston.; Stone-cutters - New England.; Boston (Mass.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 736.5 F693

Camp Hill Cemetery, Mount Joy, Lancaster County Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1999

Call Number: 310.35 C186

Responsibility: transciption [by] Peggy Reichard, recorded by Lloyd Zeager, 1999.

Place of Publication: Computer Print-out

Date of Publication: 1999

Physical Description: unpages ; 29 cm

Notes: Includes index.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 330 # 26.

Subjects: Camp Hill Cemetery (Mount Joy, Pa. : Township); Registers of birth, etc. - Pennsylvania - (Mount Joy : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.35 C186

James Buchanan, "Big wheel" of the railroads

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Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Date of Publication: 1952.

receiving a charter to construct the Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad, capitalized for $650,000, with permission to in- crease that figure to one million dollars. (5) Included in that group were James Buchanan, General George Porter, member of the Legislature, and Amos Ellmaker, all of

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Responsibility: by Oliver S. Sprout.

Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1952.

Physical Description: [21]-34 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 56, no. 2

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad (Pa.); Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company (Pa.); Pennsylvania Railroad.; Canals - Pennsylvania

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 56, number 2 (1952), p. 21-34Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.56

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An alphabetical listing of burials and gravestone transcriptions of Groffdale Mennonite Church Cemetery, West Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Martin, Darvin L.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1996.

Call Number: 289.7 G874

Alternate Title: Groffdale Mennonite Church Cemetery

Responsibility: by Darvin L. Martin.

ISBN: 1558562540

Author: Martin, Darvin L.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Apollo, PA

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: 1996.

Physical Description: 117 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 438 1A.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 112) and index.

Subjects: Groffdale Mennonite Church Cemetery (West Earl, Pa. : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - West Earl (Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - West Earl (Township) - Genealogy.; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Genealogy.; Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - West Earl (Township); West Earl (Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 289.7 G874

Mechanic Grove Church of the Brethren Cemetery, East Drumore Twp

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Author: Nolt, Harry M.

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 289.91 M486

Alternate Title: Mechanic Grove Church of the Brethren Cemetery, East Drumore Township.

Responsibility: recorded by Harry M. Nolt.

Author: Nolt, Harry M.

Place of Publication: Photocopy of manuscript

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: 11 leaves : map ; 28 cm.

Notes: #4a, pg. 124, in Rineer's Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.; No index.

Subjects: Mechanic Grove Church of the Brethren Cemetery (East Drumore Twp.,Pa.); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Registers of birth, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; East Drumore (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 289.91 M486

Landisville Mennonite Cemetery : gravestone transcriptions and parentages

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Author: Gascho, Joseph A.

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 289.7 L257g

Responsibility: compiled by Joseph A. Gascho, Susan L. Gascho.

Author: Gascho, Joseph A.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: J.A. Gascho : Copies available from Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: 286 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes indexes.

Subjects: Landisville Mennonite Cemetery (Landisville, Pa.); Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Landisville - Genealogy.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Landisville.; Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - Landisville.; Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Genealogy.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Landisville (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Gascho, Susan L.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 289.7 L257g

Pennsylvania German tombstones : A study in folk art

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Author: Barba, Preston Albert,

Date of Publication: c1954.

Call Number: 905.748 PGFS v.18

Responsibility: by Preston A. Barba. Drawings by Eleanor Barba.

Author: Barba, Preston Albert,

Place of Publication: Allentown, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society,

Date of Publication: c1954.

Physical Description: v. 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania German Society (Yearbook) v. 18.

Notes: Bibliography : p. 29-30.

Subjects: Sepulchral monuments - Pennsylvania; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania; Germans - Pennsylvania.

Additional Corporate Author: Barba, Eleanor.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.748 PGFS v.18

Tombstones of your ancestors

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Author: Schafer, Louis B.

Date of Publication: 1994

Call Number: 736.5 S296

Responsibility: by Louis S. Schafer

ISBN: 1556134363

Author: Schafer, Louis B.

Place of Publication: Bowie, MD

Publisher: Heritage Books

Date of Publication: 1994

Physical Description: viii, 156 p. 22 cm.

Subjects: Sepulchral monuments.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 736.5 S296

Gravestone chronicles

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Author: Chase, Theodore.

Date of Publication: 1997.

Call Number: 736.5 C487

Responsibility: Theodore Chase, Laurel K. Gabel ; wtih a foreword by Ralph J. Crandall.

ISBN: 0880820241 (v. 1); 0880820594 (v. 2)

Author: Chase, Theodore.

Place of Publication: Boston

Publisher: New England Historic Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: 1997.

Physical Description: 2 v. (xxii, 656 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Vol. 1: c1990.; Vol. 1: "Second printing, 1997, expanded edition."; Vol. 1 is a reissue, in an expanded edition of Gravestone chronicles, some eighteenth-century New England carvers and their work, 1990.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. Some eighteenth-century New England carvers and their work -- 2. More eighteenth-century New England carvers and an exploration of gravestone heraldica / with a foreword by John W. Tyler.