"In the half century following the War of 1812, America went canal crazy, and a network of four thousand miles of artificial waterways was built in the eastern half of the country so as to provide a safe, adequate, and reasonably cheap system of transportation. These canals helped end the isolation of great sections of the country, not only opening a market for the farmer, back-country mills, and factories, but also providing employment for thousands of men - owners, captains, boaters, lock tenders, and weighmasters - most of whom were hard drinking and violent tempered, and often the prey of harpies and their criminal consorts. Life on the canal was seldom placid, and these men regarded themselves a breed apart from the rustics with whom they came into daily contact...." [from the dust jacket]. This book is generously illustrated.
Chapters: 1. How and where it began/ 2. Conecticutt River Canals/ 3. The Blackstone and other Yankee canals/ 4. Down Chesapeake way/ 5. The Dixie canals/ 6. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal/ 7. The James River and Kanawha Canal/ 8. The Delaware and Hudson Canal/ 9. The Lehigh Valley Canal/ 10. The Morris and Delaware Division Canals
The first and earliest known colored chart of bead research showing 145 types of beads excavated in Lancaster and York Counties, Pennsylvania from 1926 to 1935.
Chinese Export Porcelain, Standard Patterns and Forms contains over1000 items illustrated in black and white and 49 color plates. This book tells the story of the exciting and dangerous "China Trade." The principal purpose of this book is to show and discuss the many forms and variations that have made this field so fascinating. The text is simple and factual and explodes many cherished myths and fantasies about these wares. The pictures and captions tell the story.[from the publisher]
Proceedings of the right worshipful Grand lodge of the most ancient and honorable fraternity of Free and accepted masons of Pennsylvania, and masonic jurisdiction thereunto belonging, at its celebration of the bi-centenary of the birth of Right Worshipful past grand master brother Benjamin Franklin, held in the Masonic temple, in the city of Philadelphia on Wednesday, March the seventh A. D. 1906--A. L. 5906. Together with an account of the memorial service at his tomb, on Thursday, April the nineteenth A. D. 1906--A. L. 5906
The history and topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties; containing a brief history of the first settlers, notices of the leading events, incidents and interesting facts, both general and local, in the history of these counties, general & statistical descriptions of all the principal boroughs, towns, villages, &c. with an appendix, embellished with several engravingsj compiled from numerous authentic sources by I. Daniel Rupp
Lancaster county Indians; annals of the Susquehannocks and other Indian tribes of the Susquehanna territory from about the year 1500 to 1763, the date of their extinction. An exhaustive and interesting series of historical papers descriptive of Lancaster county's Indians prior to and during the advent of the paleface
John Wiant of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania : a history of the Wian-Wion-Wyan family in America and Australia through eight generations, with notes on the possible origins of the family in Germany and colonial Pennsylvania, and including brief histories of the allied Pennsylvania families of Gerberich, Graf, Jäger, Moser, Schwab, Stober, and Wagner
The colonial Virginia register. A list of governors, councillors and other higher officials, and also of members of the House of burgesses, and the revolutionary conventions of the colony of Virginia
