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Robert Fulton as an artist

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Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Date of Publication: 1938

, and inventor, was born in Little Britain, now Fulton, Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1765.3 The next year, the family returned to the town of Lancaster, where they had formerly resided, and where his father had been a useful and important citizen.4 He was a founder of the First

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Responsibility: by Eleanore J. Fulton.

Author: Fulton, Eleanore Jane,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1938

Physical Description: [49]-96 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 42, no. 3

Subjects: Fulton, Robert, - 1765-1815 - Catalogs.; Artists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 42, number 3 (1938), p. 49-96Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.42

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Standard presented to Washington Grays

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1931

, Lancaster county, Pa., October 6th, 1798, �and died June 15th, 1851. In 1820, he opened a studio in Marietta, Pa., and there began his career as artist and teacher. In 1849, he opened a studio, and a gallery for exhibition of paintings, in Mechanics' Institute, Lancaster; and, later, had a large studio

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1931

Physical Description: 17-18 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 35, no. 1

Subjects: Armstrong, Arthur, - 1798-1851.; Washington, George, - 1732-1799.; New York (State). - Militia. - Regiment, 8th.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 35, number 1 (1931), p. 17-18Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.35

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Frederick Valentine Melsheimer

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Author: Frost, S. W.

Date of Publication: 1937

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.41

Responsibility: by Dr. Stuart W. Frost.

Author: Frost, S. W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: [164]-168 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 41, no. 6

Subjects: Melsheimer, Frederick Valentine, - 1749-1814.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Entomology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.41

Weaverland : settlement, settlers, graveyard and its four plantations now (1933 divided into forty-five farms

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Author: Weaver, Martin G.

Date of Publication: 1933.

Call Number: 974.815 EEAR W363w

Responsibility: by M.G. Weaver.

Author: Weaver, Martin G.

Place of Publication: [New Holland, Pa

Publisher: M.G. Weaver],

Date of Publication: 1933.

Physical Description: 32 p.: ill., map ; 22 cm.

Notes: Running title: Early Weaverland history.; "November first, Nineteen hundred and thirty-three."; "Revised and reprinted from the New Holland Clarion."

Subjects: Plantations - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Weaverland (Lancaster County, Pa.) - History.; Weaverland (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Biography.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 EEAR W363w

Grandfathers' clocks : their making and their makers in Lancaster County

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Author: Magee, Daniel F.

Date of Publication: 1939.

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

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Responsibility: by D. F. Magee, Esq.

Author: Magee, Daniel F.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1939.

Physical Description: [137]-[164] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 43, no. 5

Notes: Second edition of paper originally read April 6, 1917. Contains corrections and additions.

Subjects: Clock and watch makers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Longcase clocks - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,; Coldren, Charles M.,; Gorgas, Harry S.; Heisey, M. Luther,

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 43, number 5 (1939), p. 137-164Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.43

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Signers and ratifiers of the Constitution of the United States

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Author: Coldren, Charles M.,

Date of Publication: 1937

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's

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Responsibility: by Mrs. Charles M. Coldren.

Author: Coldren, Charles M.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: [182]-184 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 41, no. 7

Subjects: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); United States. - Signers.; Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 41, number 7 (1937), p. 182-184Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.41

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David M. Sensenig : famous local mathematician

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Author: Martin, C. H.

Date of Publication: 1938

David M. Sensenig A Famous Local Mathematician By C. H. MARTIN David M. Sensenig was born in 1840 at Goodville, East Earl Township, Lancaster County, son of Michael and Barbara Martin Sensenig. When a young man he worked on his father's farm. He was greatly interested in mathematics even as a boy

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Responsibility: by C. H. Martin.

Author: Martin, C. H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1938

Physical Description: [209]-210 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 42

Subjects: Sensenig, David M. - b. 1840.; Educators - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mathematicians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 42, number 8 (1938), p. 209-210Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.42

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Susannah Rohrer Muller and her ancestry

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Author: Wiles, Alice Miller.

Date of Publication: 1937

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.41

Responsibility: by (Mrs. Charles P.) Alice Wiles, a great-granddaughter.

Author: Wiles, Alice Miller.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: 168-172 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 41, no. 6

Subjects: Muller, Susannah Rohrer, - 1756-1815.; Midwives - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Medicine - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Women - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.41

A history of aviation in Lancaster County

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Author: Nevin, Hugh W.

Date of Publication: 1935

A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HUGH W. NEVIN Aviation, we hear on every side, is in its infancy. Although our modern transport ships fly through the air with the greatest of ease, crossing the continent between dawn and dusk, joining the north and the south by hours, crossing the

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Responsibility: by Hugh W. Nevin.

Author: Nevin, Hugh W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1935

Physical Description: [21]-48 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 39, no. 2

Subjects: Wise, John, - 1808-1879.; Balloons - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Airports - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 39, number 2 (1935), p. 21-48Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.39

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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

Companion in Arms of General Washing- ton. Captain of Troop of Light Horse of Lancaster County. Com- missioned by the Governor, March 25, 1793. In 1798, he was ap- pointed Major-General in Provisional Army. Harris' Biog. Hist. of Lancaster Co., p. 268. Ellis and Evans' Hist. of Lancaster Co., p. 45. Pa

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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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The unveiling of the Eichholtz tablet and valuable notes concerning some portraits by the distinguished artist, Jacob Eichholtz

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Author: Barnes, Horace Richards.

Date of Publication: 1935

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

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Responsibility: by Professor Horace R. Barnes.

Author: Barnes, Horace Richards.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1935

Physical Description: [121]-125 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 39, no. 6

Subjects: Eichholtz, Jacob, - 1776-1842.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Portraits, American; Lancaster (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 39, number 6 (1935), p. 121-125Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.39

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Peter Bezaillion's Road

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Author: Brackbill, Martin Hervin.

Date of Publication: 1939

longest stretch of all, between the New HoIland Pike and the river, except for short sections. But we can still Iocate it accurately enough by existing township lines, for when the magistrates and freeholders of the newly erected county of Lancaster met in the summer of 1729, to lay out townships, Peter's

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Responsibility: by Martin Hervin Brackbill.

Author: Brackbill, Martin Hervin.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1939

Physical Description: [1]-48 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 43, no. 1

Subjects: Bezaillion, Peter, - 1662-1742.; Peters Road (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 43, number 1 (1939), p. 1-48Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.43

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The Rev. John D. Woodhull, D.D. : "the fighting chaplain"

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Author: Buyers, William Buchanan.

Date of Publication: 1939

graduated at Princeton College in 1766. From there he went to Fagg's Manor, Chester County, Pa., and received his theological training un- der the famous preacher and teacher, Rev. John Blair. In 1772 he married Miss Sara Spofford of Philadelphia, a step-daughter of the renowned Gilbert Tennant, D. D., by

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Responsibility: by Rev. William Buchanan Buyers.

Author: Buyers, William Buchanan.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1939

Physical Description: [131]-136 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 43, no. 4

Subjects: Woodhull, John, - 1744-1824.; Chaplains, Military - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 43, number 4 (1939), p. 131-136Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.43

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Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, entomologist

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1937

in Lancaster County, where on the 13th day of May I preached the first sermon. On June 3rd, 1779 I was married to Maria Agnes Man. The birthplace of my wife was Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her father's name was Samuel Man and her mother's name Anna Catharina. "November 12th, 1784, I removed to Manheim

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: [103]-112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 41, no. 4

Subjects: Melsheimer, Frederick Valentine, - 1749-1814.; Entomologists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 41, number 4 (1937), p. 103-112Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.41

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Mysterious "Black Jim" Madison

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Author: Weaver, M. G.

Date of Publication: 1933

MYSTERIOUS "BLACK JIM" MADISON By M. G. WEAVER FOR thirty years, from about 1832 to 1862, James Madison, better known and remembered as "Black Jim," was an eccentric and interesting character in Blue Ball, East Earl township, Lancaster county, Pa. His story that he was born a slave and subsequently

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Responsibility: by M. G. Weaver.

Author: Weaver, M. G.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1933

Physical Description: [98]-103 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 37, no. 4

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 37, number 4 (1933), p. 98-103Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.37

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Little journeys through "America's garden spot" : historic and scenic Lancaster Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: [1938?]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L778

Responsibility: prepared and published by the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Lancaster Chamber of Commerce,

Date of Publication: [1938?]

Physical Description: 28 p. : ill., map ; 23 x 10 cm.

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Guidebooks.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Guidebooks.

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster Chamber of Commerce (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L778

A history of Bart meeting

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Author: Gilbert, Rodney.

Date of Publication: [1939?]

Call Number: 289.6 G465

Responsibility: by Rodney Gilbert,

Author: Gilbert, Rodney.

Place of Publication: [ s. l

Publisher: s. n.] ,

Date of Publication: [1939?]

Physical Description: [31 p.] : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Paper read at Bart reunion, 1939.

Subjects: Bart Friends Meeting (Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa.); Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.6 G465

Jacob Eichholtz points the way

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Author: Weygandt, Cornelius,

Date of Publication: 1935

, that he never came into the recognition to which he was entitled until William Uhler Hensel in 1912 wrote his memorable appreciation of Eichholtz in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society. He is recognized in the Dictionary of American Biography by a half-page sketch of his career

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Responsibility: by Dr. Cornelius Weygandt.

Author: Weygandt, Cornelius,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1935

Physical Description: [126]-132 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 39, no. 6

Subjects: Eichholtz, Jacob, - 1776-1842.; Painting - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 39, number 6 (1935), p. 126-132Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.39

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Memorial to Frederick Valentine Melsheimer

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1937

, that he spent the prime of his life in Lancaster County and that he gave Pennsylvania two sons who followed closely in his footsteps. While he is also well known as an educator and a clergyman, I am concerned chiefly in his career as a scientist. We must admit that Frederick Valentine Melsheimer was

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1937

Physical Description: [162]-163 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 41, no. 6

Subjects: Melsheimer, Frederick Valentine, - 1749-1814.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Entomology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; New Holland (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 41, number 6 (1937), p. 162-163Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.41

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Conoy Indian town site marked

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1933

is the fourth marker erected in Lancaster county by the Historical Society as a memorial to the American Indians—our earliest inhabitants, presumably. The bronze tablet, from the studio of the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, was placed on the shaft by the Haldy Marble and Granite Works ; and

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1933

Physical Description: [106]-112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 37, no. 4

Subjects: Bezaillion, Peter, - 1662-1742.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Conoy Indian Town (Lancaster County, Pa.); Peters Road (Lancaster, Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 37, number 4 (1933), p. 106-112Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.37

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Robert Fulton as an artist

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Frederick Valentine Melsheimer

Weaverland : settlement, settlers, graveyard and its four plantations now (1933 divided into forty-five farms

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Signers and ratifiers of the Constitution of the United States

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David M. Sensenig : famous local mathematician

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Susannah Rohrer Muller and her ancestry

A history of aviation in Lancaster County

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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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The unveiling of the Eichholtz tablet and valuable notes concerning some portraits by the distinguished artist, Jacob Eichholtz

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Peter Bezaillion's Road

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The Rev. John D. Woodhull, D.D. : "the fighting chaplain"

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Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, entomologist

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Mysterious "Black Jim" Madison

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Little journeys through "America's garden spot" : historic and scenic Lancaster Pennsylvania

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Memorial to Frederick Valentine Melsheimer

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Conoy Indian town site marked

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