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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 1, 1905

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Corporate Author
A. Hoen and Company.
Date of Publication
[1923?]
Call Number
974.815 LACO 517 Oversize
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Corporate Author
A. Hoen and Company.
Place of Publication
Baltimore, Md
Publisher
H. Hoen & Co. Lith.,
Date of Publication
[1923?]
Physical Description
1 map : col. ; 99 x 105 cm.
Notes
"April 1, 1923."
Includes table of township road mileages and distance table.
Subjects
Post office buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.
Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Highway Dept.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 LACO 517 Oversize
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Archive

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Collection
Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, Series 2
Title
Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, Series 2
Object ID
MG0268_S02
Date Range
1759-1928
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Collection
Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, Series 2
Title
Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, Series 2
Description
The Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, Series 2 was carefully curated by Mr. Slaymaker and contains papers dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. This series is primarily composed of correspondence related to business, railroads, legal affairs, and personal matters. The personal letters are rich in details of social history and genealogy. Legal documents include estate papers for the Fleming, Slaymaker, Leech, and Boyd families. The remaining documents include land surveys, receipts, tickets, accounts, bonds, and wills.
System of Arrangement
The Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection is divided into six series according to the original order; Series 1, 2 and 4 have been cataloged and are available for research.
Series 1 Trunk: SRS I and Minnie
Series 2 Document Boxes
Series 3 Family Papers
Series 4 Museum Cases and Metal Box
Series 5 Slaymaker Lock Company Records
Series 6 Papers of Samuel R. Slaymaker II
Date Range
1759-1928
Year Range From
1759
Year Range To
1928
Date of Accumulation
1759-1928
Creator
Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker, 1923-1989
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 07
People
Slaymaker, Amos
Slaymaker, Henry Fleming
Slaymaker, Minnie Louise Cohr
Slaymaker, Samuel Cochran, 1828-1894
Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker
Other Creators
Slaymaker family
Subjects
African Americans--History
Business records
Court records
Deeds
Family records
Invitation cards
Legal documents
Letters
Postmasters
Railroads--Pennsylvania
Railroads--Records and correspondence
Real property surveys--Pennsylvania
Kinzers (Pa.)
Lancaster County (Pa.)
Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township)
Search Terms
Accounts
Business records
Columbia Store
Correspondence
Court records
Deeds
Enslaved persons
Family records
Finding aids
Invitations
Kinzers, Paradise Twp.
Legal documents
Letters
Manuscript groups
Persons of color
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
Postmasters
Railroads
Railroads, Records and correspondence
Reading and Chesapeake Railroad
Reading and Columbia Railroad Company
Reading, Lancaster and Baltimore Railroad
Real property surveys
Receipts
Salisbury Twp.
White Chimneys
Wilmington and Reading Railroad
Extent
7 boxes, 113 folders, 3.5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0268_S02
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
See also Photograph and Object Collections
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions are noted at the item level.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-268, Series 2
Classification
MG0268
Description Level
Series
Custodial History
Added to database 8 August 2022.
Much of this series was microfilmed by the Pennsylvania State Archives. The microfilmed items are noted within the finding aid and the microfilm is available in LancasterHistory's Research Center.
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Index to the first eight volumes of the publications of the Lebanon County Historical Society : introduction read before the society January 25, 1924

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Author
Stein, Thomas S.
Date of Publication
1924]
Call Number
974.819 L441 Index v. 1 - 8
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Responsibility
by Thos. S. Stein.
Author
Stein, Thomas S.
Place of Publication
[Pennsylvania
Publisher
The Society,
Date of Publication
1924]
Physical Description
55 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Lebanon County (Pa.) - History - Indexes.
Lebanon County (Pa.) - Biography - Indexes.
Additional Corporate Author
Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.)
Additional Title
Papers and addresses of the Lebanon County Historical Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.819 L441 Index v. 1 - 8
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Report of the committee to place and unveil a marker designating and commemorating the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor Township, Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication
1924
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO PLACE AND UNVEIL A MARKER DESIGNATING AND COMMEMORATING THE INDIAN TOWN OF CONESTOGA, IN MANOR TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society: Your committee appointed to place, and with appropriate exercises un
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1924
Physical Description
129-149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 9
Subjects
Penn, William, - 1644-1718.
Indian Town (Conestoga, Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Conestoga Indians.
Paxton Boys.
Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.
Conestoga (Pa. : Township) - History.
Additional Author
Magee, Daniel F.
Landis, David H.,
Beck, Herbert Huebener,
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 28, number 9 (1924), p. 129-152Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.28
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[Map of East King Street, Lancaster, Pa.]

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Date of Publication
1929.
Call Number
974.815 LACI 501Oversize
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Place of Publication
[s.l.]
Publisher
[s.n.]
Date of Publication
1929.
Physical Description
1 map ; 42 x 227 cm.
Notes
Names of landholders given. Blueprint.
Subjects
Real property - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Landowners - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 LACI 501Oversize
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Dedication of the monument to James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, donated to the city of Lancaster by Dulon F. Buchmiller on the sixtieth anniversary of Mr. Buchanan's death, Friday, June the first, 1928, erected in Buchanan Park, Lancaster, Penna

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Date of Publication
1928.
Call Number
923.1 B818de
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Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.],
Date of Publication
1928.
Physical Description
[8] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Statues.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.1 B818de
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Outline of Lancaster County Penna. : townships, streams, etc. 1922

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank ,
Date of Publication
1922
Call Number
974.815 LACO 505
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Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank ,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Engraving Company ,
Date of Publication
1922
Physical Description
1 map ; 57 x 57 cm.
Notes
3 copies.
Gives names of streams and township outlines.
Appears in Lancaster County Historical Society Journal, v.26, no. 3.
Subjects
Rivers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County, (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 LACO 505
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Plan of Grand View Heights, Manheim Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa

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Date of Publication
1927.
Call Number
974.815 MANT 100
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Alternate Title
Plan of Grandview Heights, Manheim Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa.
Responsibility
T.R. Linton.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster City Planning Commission ,
Date of Publication
1927.
Physical Description
1 map ; 36 x 22 cm.
Notes
Missing left hand section.
Subjects
Land use - Pennsylvania - Manheim (Lancaster County : Township)
Manheim (Lancaster County : Township) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 MANT 100
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Archive

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Collection
Diffenderffer Family Papers
Title
Diffenderffer Family Papers
Object ID
MG0410
Date Range
1691-1963
Lancaster Land drafts Lemon Street School Letters Manuscript groups Mortgages New Design, Earl Twp. New Holland Newspaper clippings Programs Real estate Real property surveys Reigart's Landing Susquehanna River Texas Texas Frontier Forces Windsor Forge Related Materials: Processing History: Cataloged by HST
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Collection
Diffenderffer Family Papers
Title
Diffenderffer Family Papers
Description
The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain to J. P. McCaskey's life and accomplishments. F. R. Diffenderffer's manuscripts on Easter Day and Conrad Weiser are preserved with this collection, as well as poems, a program for the C. Elvin Haupt School, and a claim of F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas.
Date Range
1691-1963
Year Range From
1691
Year Range To
1963
Date of Accumulation
1691-1963
Creator
Diffenderffer family
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 10
People
Brubaker, John
Brubaker, Margaret
Brubaker, Philip
Davis, Sarah
Diffenderfer, David
Diffenderfer, Elizabeth Shirk
Diffenderfer, John
Diffenderffer, Christina
Diffenderffer, David
Diffenderffer, David, Sr.
Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz
Diffenderffer, Frank Ried
Diffenderffer, Harold F.
Diffenderffer, John, Jr.
Diffenderffer, John, Sr.
Diffenderffer, Margaretta Stein
Diffenderffer, Michael
Freymyer, Jacob
Grim, Henry
Haupt, Charles Elvin
Hoch, Herman E.
Holl, Wendel
Hubley, Bernard
Kennerly, John
Kinzer, John
Kinzer, Magdalena
Koch, Mary
Koch, Melchior
Law, James D.
Markley, Henry
McCaskey, Donald G.
McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"
Nevin, Blanche
Painter, John
Penn, William
Rodman, John H.
Shirk, Henry
Smith, Oliver
Smith, William Evans
Sneider, Christian
Stone, David
Stone, George
Stone, Leonard
Stone, Mary
Sutton, Mary A. Diffenderffer
Thomson, Bill "Tommy"
Winter, John
Young, Matthias
Other Creators
Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz, 1918-2009
Diffenderffer, David
Subjects
Deeds
Letters
Real property
Search Terms
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Conestoga River
Correspondence
Deeds
Drowning
Earl Twp.
England
Estate settlement
Finding aids
German Reformed Church of New Holland
Haupt Elementary School
Hutchings Printing House
King Street
Lancaster
Land drafts
Lemon Street School
Letters
Manuscript groups
Mortgages
New Design, Earl Twp.
New Holland
Newspaper clippings
Programs
Real estate
Real property surveys
Reigart's Landing
Susquehanna River
Texas
Texas Frontier Forces
Windsor Forge
Extent
1 box, 23 folders, .5 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0410
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Deeds in folders 1-18 were a gift of Fianna Diffenderffer and the Diffenderffer family, 4 November 2006.
Items in folders 19-23 were a gift from her nephew, David Diffenderffer, 14 August 2006.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions are noted at the item level--please use photocopies or transcriptions for those items. Other original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
2006.MG0410_NOV
Other Numbers
MG-410
Classification
MG0410
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Cataloged by HST, November 2008. Added to database 28 July 2021.
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Notes on money other than United States issues used in Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication
1926
I. NOTES ON MONEY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES ISSUES USED IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA In presenting to you the paper on this subject it is the author's intention to record in the files of our Society information which has been gathered by a search covering a period of a few years extending from
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1926
Physical Description
19-27 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 30, no. 2
Subjects
Money - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Paper money - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Coinage - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 30, number 2 (1926), p. 19-27Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.30
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