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150th anniversary of the battle of the Brandywine, 1777-1927, Dilworthtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania : [program], September 9th, 10th and 11th, 1927

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4918
Date of Publication
1927.
Call Number
974.813 B817
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Place of Publication
[S.l.]
Publisher
Bradywine Memorial Association,
Date of Publication
1927.
Physical Description
[20] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"The historical section of this program was prepared from material furnished by Wilmer W. MacElree [and others]."
Subjects
Brandywine, Battle of, 1777.
Dilworthtown (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Anniversaries, etc.
Additional Author
MacElree, Wilmer M.,
Additional Corporate Author
Brandywine Memorial Association.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 B817
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The story of Caernarvon

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo991
Author
Lincoln, J. B.
Date of Publication
1914
Philadelphia, fifty miles dis- tant, we feel that as an early charcoal iron master he stood alone, a tower of business ability and financial in- tegrity. Mr. Jacobs was a son of Richards �Jacobs, born near Perkiomen, Chester county. He came to Pool Forge a young man unversed in the iron busi- ness. Endowed
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by J. B. Lincoln, M.D.
Author
Lincoln, J. B.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1914
Physical Description
59-79 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 3
Summary
Caernarvon is the easternmost township of Lancaster County, PA. The article, written in 1914, describes the geography, people, houses, and industry of the past.
Subjects
Episcopal Church of Bangor (Churchtown, Pa.)
Episcopal Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Description and travel.
Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.
Churchtown (Pa.)
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 18, number 3 (1914), p. 59-79Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.18
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Seeing Lancaster county and city by automobile

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Author
Magee, Daniel F.
Date of Publication
1924.
Call Number
974.815 LACO M191
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Responsibility
Prepared and distributed by Lancaster Automobile Club. Sketched and written by D. F. Magee, esq. and contributed to the club.
Author
Magee, Daniel F.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Automobile Club,
Date of Publication
1924.
Physical Description
24 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Route No.1, A trip to the southern end, Chestnut level, Fulton House, Penn Hill -- Route No. 2, Donegal Church, Elizabethtown and Hershey -- Route No. 3, Some old and famous roads; the Newport road and Peter's road -- Route No. 4, Ephrata, Brickerville, Clay, Elizabeth Furnace, Penryn -- Route No. 5, Conestoga Township, Safe Harbor, The first court house, Postlethwaite -- Route No. 6, The Octorara and the early English settlements and the southern end -- Route No. 7, An all day Sunday route by York, Baltimore Pike, Havre de Grace, Elkton, Wilmington -- Route No. 8, Millersville, Indian Town, Creswell, Columbia, Chickies, Silver Springs -- Route No. 9, Two routes to McCall's Ferry -- Route No. 10, From Lancaster via Wilmington, Delaware, Atlantic City and Bowers Beach -- Route No. 11, Moore's Mill, a beautiful spot via East Petersburg, Salunga, Ironville and the Quay Farm -- Route No. 12, The South Mountain and the Blue Hills: Summer Resorts -- Route No. 13, Some nice evening drives as the sun seeks the west -- Route No. 14, Long's Park, Rohrerstown, Millersville, Wabank, Second Lock -- Route No. 15, Long's Park, Petersburg, Oregon, Lehman's Rifle factory.
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO M191
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The automobile blue book 1916. a touring hand-book of motor routes in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the South Atlantic states

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Corporate Author
Automobile Blue Book Publishing Company.
Date of Publication
c1916.
Call Number
917.3 A939 1916
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Alternate Title
Official automobile blue book 1916
Corporate Author
Automobile Blue Book Publishing Company.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Automobile Blue Book Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
c1916.
Physical Description
1060 p. : ill., maps (some folded) ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
Automobile travel - United States - Guidebooks.
New Jersey - Description and travel.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel.
South Atlantic states - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
917.3 A939 1916
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Historical events in the vicinity of Philadelphia, participated in by the Scotch-Irish in the latter part of the year 1777. Also a brief account of Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian war, 1755

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Author
Sharp, Thomas.
Date of Publication
1914]
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 3
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By Thomas Sharp. Read before the Hamilton Library Association, Carlisle, Pa., October 16, 1914, by J. Webster Henderson, esq.
Author
Sharp, Thomas.
Place of Publication
[Carlisle?
Date of Publication
1914]
Physical Description
12 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
An account of the engagement at Chestnut Hill, Pa., Dec. 5, 1777.
Subjects
Chestnut Hill, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777.
Braddock's Campaign, 1755.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.843 C969m v. 3
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A series of descriptive papers upon a tour made to Alaska, during the summer of 1929 : going by way of the Canadian Rockies, and the inside passage, and returning by way of Northern United States Rockies

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
ca. 1929]
Call Number
979.8 E75
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Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman ....
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
ca. 1929]
Physical Description
24 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
"Reprint from the 'Ephrata Review'"--Cover.
Contents
The glory of the Canadian Rockies -- On the way to Alaska -- Tourists' Alaska -- Eastward over the Northern United States Rockies.
Subjects
Alaska - Description and travel.
Rocky Mountains - Description and travel.
Additional Title
Ephrata review.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
979.8 E75
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Journal of an English emigrant farmer : a record of the journey of an unknown Englishman to America in the year 1838 and his sojourn for a summer among the early pioneer settlers of Muncy Valley

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Date of Publication
1928.
Call Number
974.851 J86
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Responsibility
edited by T. Kenneth Wood.
Place of Publication
Williamsport [Pa.]
Publisher
Lycoming Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1928.
Physical Description
38 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Proceedings and papers - Lycoming Historical Society ; no. 6
Notes
"Occasional Publication No. 6."
Subjects
Farmers
United States - Description and travel - 1783-1848.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Wood, T. Kenneth.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.851 J86
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https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbabel.hathitrust.org%2Fcgi%2Fpt%3Fid%3Dcoo.31924001280266%26view%3D1up%26seq%3D13&data=05%7C01%7Cshianne.hargrove%40lancasterhistory.org%7C573dcd4cab8847daaa8f08db888ea727%7C77252d1418a546d9b9d933511a635493%7C0%7C0%7C638253918504600878%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qv%2F5JX6Wt5n5M9U0V0cje8SwDk2CDIc5BzkV1uAYlGQ%3D&reserved=0
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Cazenove journal, 1794 : a record of the journey of Theophile Cazenove through New Jersey and Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12440
Author
Cazenove, Theophile,
Date of Publication
1922.
Call Number
917.3 C386
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Responsibility
(translated from the French) edited by Rayner Wickersham Kelsey.
Author
Cazenove, Theophile,
Place of Publication
Haverford, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania History Press,
Date of Publication
1922.
Physical Description
iivx (i.e. xvii), 103 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Series
Haverford college studies ;
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Theophile Cazenove (1740 to 1811) was a Dutch financier and an agent of the Holland Land Company. He spent several years in America making investments. The journal offers his observations about industry, farming, commerce and life in the new American nation. The itinerary listed in this book shows extensive travel in Lancaster and surrounding counties. Several taverns are listed in the itinerary: Wilson's, McIntyre's, Ealer's, Trexler's, Schaeffer's, McCracken's, Thompson's, Russell's, McCleland's, Fornistak's, and Miller's.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs.
New Jersey - Description and travel - Personal narratives.
Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
917.3 C386
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The Old Gulph Road

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Author
Evans, Allen
Date of Publication
1918.
Call Number
386 E82
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Responsibility
by Allen Evans.
Author
Evans, Allen
Place of Publication
[s.l
Publisher
s.n.]
Date of Publication
1918.
Notes
Read at the meeting of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, November 18, 1918.
Subjects
Montgomery County
Chester County
Lancaster County
Roads - Pennsylvania
Old Gulph Road (Montgomery County, Pa.)
Old Gulph Road (Chester County, Pa.)
Old Gulph Road (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Pennsylvania - Transportation.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
386 E82
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Seeing Lancaster county from a trolley window

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Author
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner.
Date of Publication
1910
Call Number
917.4815 K92
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Author
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Conestoga traction company
Date of Publication
1910
Physical Description
80 p. illus. 25 cm.
Notes
Reprinted from the "Pennsylvania-German."
Summary
A 1910 sightseeing tour of Lancaster County published by the trolley company. It is divided into destinations, citing locations and detailed history along each trip.There are many photographs and illustrations included. Tours to Lancaster, Marietta, Elizabethtown, Pequea, Quarryville, The "East End" of the county, Terre Hill, Ephrata and Adamstown, Lititz and Manheim, and a section on Lancaster "in days of yore."
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
917.4815 K92
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3mw37c61;view=1up;seq=5
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