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History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c

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Author: Jones, U. J.

Date of Publication: c1940]

Call Number: 974.802 P968 1940

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Responsibility: By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...

Author: Jones, U. J.

Place of Publication: [Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: The Telegraph Press,

Date of Publication: c1940]

Physical Description: 440 p. incl. illus., plates, front. 24 cm.

Notes: Maps on lining-papers.; First edition published at Philadelphia, 1856.; Appendix, prepared by William H. Egle (including a biographical sketch of U. J. Jones and The Pattersons of Juniata): p. [351]-421.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania.; Juniata River Valley (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Egle, William Henry,; Hoenstine, Floyd G.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 P968 1940

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History of Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company, Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company, Lancaster, Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company : and any other trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1944.

Call Number: 388.4 L574

Responsibility: compiled by Harry David Lentz, Jr.

Place of Publication: Lebanon [Pa.]

Publisher: Lentz,

Date of Publication: 1944.

Physical Description: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties.

Subjects: Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company - History.; Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company - History.; Lancaster Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company - History.; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Additional Author: Lentz, Harry David,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 388.4 L574

Records of the Ministerial Acts pertaining to the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, 1728-1869 : Cocalico Township, Lancaster County Pa

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Date of Publication: November 1941.

Call Number: 284.1 M943

Responsibility: translated from the original German Records by Rev. Melville B. Schmoyer.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: November 1941.

Physical Description: 106 p. : 29 cm.

Notes: Baptisms, indexed, 1728 - 1869; list of Pastors; marriages 1730- 1752 and confirmations May 12, 1782.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 109 # 1.

Subjects: Muddy Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church (East Cocalico Township).; Registers of birth, etc. - Pennsylvania - East Cocalico (Pa. : Township); Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - East Cocalico (Pa. : Township)

Additional Author: Schmoyer, Melville B.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 M943

Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church, Rohrerstown, Pa. : a century of service, 1843 [to] 1943

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Corporate Author: Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church (Rohrerstown, Pa.)

Date of Publication: [1943?]

Call Number: 284.1 S163r

Corporate Author: Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church (Rohrerstown, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Press of The Conestoga Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: [1943?]

Physical Description: 24 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church (Rohrerstown, Pa.) - History.; Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church (Rohrerstown, Pa.) - Directories.; Evangelical and Reformed Church - Pennsylvania - Rohrerstown - History.; Evangelical and Reformed Church - Pennsylvania - Rohrerstown - Directories.; Rohrerstown (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 284.1 S163r

History of the Moravian congregation of Lititz, Pennsylvania

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Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Call Number: 284.6 H874

Responsibility: by Mary Augusta Huebener.

Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,

Place of Publication: Bethlehem, Pa

Publisher: Times Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Physical Description: p. 199-310, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: "This volume is published in connection with the celebration of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Moravian Congregation at Lititz, Pennsylvania [...] The following pages have appeared in the Transaction of the Moravian Historical Society (Volume XIV, Parts 3 and 4)". -- Foreword.; Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Bicentennial history of the Lititz Moravian congregation / by Mary Augusta Huebener -- The Beck Family School / by Herbert Huebener Beck -- Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls, 1748-1948 / by W.N. Schwarze.

Subjects: Moravian Church - Pennsylvania - History.; Beck Family School for Boys.; Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls.; Moravians - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Lititz (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Huebener, Mary Augusta,; Beck, Herbert Huebener,; Schwarze, William Nathaniel,

Additional Corporate Author: Moravian Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 284.6 H874

Monthly fire records of Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1882 to 1950

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Corporate Author: Lancaster City (Pa.), Bureau of Fire

Date of Publication: 1882-1956.

Call Number: 353.3 L245

Corporate Author: Lancaster City (Pa.), Bureau of Fire

Date of Publication: 1882-1956.

Physical Description: 3 parts ; 29 cm.

Notes: Typescript.; "These records made available for copying by the Lancaster County Historical Society, Oct. 31, 1973 by Edward G. Deatrick, Chief of Lancaster City Bureau of Fire, Chester R. Schwalm, Deputy Chief, Linda J. Hess, Secretary. Typed by volunteers Mrs. Richard H. Schopf, Mrs. Donald Bissinger.

Subjects: Fire departments

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster (Pa.) Bureau of Fire.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 353.3 L245

The history of the Cookman Methodist Church Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., 1894-1946

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Author: Hoover, Maurice E.

Date of Publication: 1946.

Call Number: 287 C773h

Author: Hoover, Maurice E.

Place of Publication: Photocopy of typescript

Date of Publication: 1946.

Physical Description: 62 p. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Cookman Methodist Church (Columbia, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 287 C773h

The history of the gas and electric industries in Lancaster County

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Author: Barnes, Horace Richards.

Date of Publication: 1948

in the borough of Mount Joy, and in 1903 purchased the property of the old gas company from the Tanners Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania. There is a rather interesting piece of history concerning the ownership and operation of the gas works in Mount Joy during the period I have just

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Responsibility: by Horace Richards Barnes.

Author: Barnes, Horace Richards.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1948

Physical Description: [101]-131 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 52, no. 5

Subjects: Pennsylvania Power & Light Company - History.; Lancaster Gas Company (Lancaster, Pa.); Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Lancaster (Pa.); Electric utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Public utilities - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Gas companies - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 52, number 5 (1948), p. 101-131Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.52

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History of the classis of Lancaster of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1852-1940

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Author: Glass, Daniel G.

Date of Publication: [1942].

Call Number: 285.7 G549

Responsibility: Editors: Rev. Daniel G. Glass, Rev. C. George Bachman, Rev. Harry E. Shepardson, Rev. John F. Frantz, Rev. J.N. Le Van.

Author: Glass, Daniel G.

Place of Publication: New Holland, Pa

Publisher: Printed by The New Holland Clarion,

Date of Publication: [1942].

Physical Description: xiv, 431 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., coat of arms, map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. 420.

Subjects: Reformed Church in the United States. - Lebanon Classis.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 285.7 G549

Two centuries of Reading, Pa., 1748-1948; a history of the county seat of Berks County

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Author: Albright, Raymond Wolf,

Edition: [Official bicentennial ed.]

Date of Publication: 1948.

Call Number: 974.816 R287a

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Author: Albright, Raymond Wolf,

Edition: [Official bicentennial ed.]

Place of Publication: Reading

Publisher: Historical Society of Berks County,

Date of Publication: 1948.

Physical Description: xi, 307 p. illus., ports. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. [299]-301.

Subjects: Reading (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 R287a

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Geologic notes on the Pequea Silver Mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : A brief history of the Pequea Silver Mine Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Foose, Richard Martin,

Date of Publication: 1947.

Call Number: 550 F686

Responsibility: Richard M. Foose.

Author: Foose, Richard Martin,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa. : Franklin and Marshall College

Date of Publication: 1947.

Physical Description: [13 p] ; 25 cm.

Notes: From the proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science : Vol. XXL, 1947.; Includes index.

Summary: Refers to several mines in a half mile square area in Lancaster County marked by Pequea Creek in the south, Silver Mine Run in the east , and an unnamed tributary to Pequea Creek to the west.

Subjects: Geology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Mines and mineral resources - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Silver mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Price, John W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 550 F686

Centennial history of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846-1946

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Author: Burgess, George H.

Date of Publication: 1949.

Call Number: 385 B955

Responsibility: by George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy ; with a foreword by Martin W. Clement.

Author: Burgess, George H.

Place of Publication: Philadephia

Publisher: Pennsylvania Railroad Co,

Date of Publication: 1949.

Physical Description: xxvi, 835 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill., maps (1 folded), ports. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad - History.; Railroads - United States

Additional Author: Kennedy, Miles C.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 385 B955

Patriotic background : an address by Hon. William H. Keller, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, St. James Church, Lancaster (Pa.) May 28, 1944 : under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

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Author: Keller, William H.

Date of Publication: May 28, 1944.

Call Number: 369.13 P314

Responsibility: by William H. Keller.

Author: Keller, William H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [s.n.]

Date of Publication: May 28, 1944.

Physical Description: 8 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects: St. James Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Sons of the Revolution Pennsylvania Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 369.13 P314

Cannon Hill and the Hessian ditch with personal reminiscences of the Furnace Hills

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Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Date of Publication: 1940

indenture was in regular 34 Ibid. 35 Records at the Cornwall Furnace. 38 Pennsylvania Iron Manufacture in the Eighteenth Century. 37 Swank's History of Iron Making in Pennsylvania. 33 Presented by Henry Reemsnyder, a descendant of Justus Krow. �and common use. The words written into the blank spaces are

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Responsibility: by Herbert H. Beck.

Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1940

Physical Description: [21]-39 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 44, no. 2

Subjects: Furnace Hills (Lancaster County, Pa.); Hessian Ditch (Lancaster County, Pa.); Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 44, number 2 (1940), p. 21-39Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.44

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The history of a church (Dunker) with comments featuring the First church of the brethren of Philadelphia, Pa., 1813-1943

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Author: Howe,Roland L.

Date of Publication: 1943.

Call Number: 289.9 H855

Responsibility: [by] Roland L. Howe.

Author: Howe,Roland L.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Priv. print. [Lancaster, Lancaster press, inc.]

Date of Publication: 1943.

Physical Description: xvii, 706 p. front., illus. (map) plates, ports. 24 cm.

Subjects: Philadelphia (Lydia). - First church of the brethren.; Church of the Brethren.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.9 H855

The history of the Lancaster conference of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states, together with the histories of its congregations

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Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Conference. Lancaster.

Date of Publication: 1942.

Call Number: 284.1 L973

Corporate Author: Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States. Conference. Lancaster.

Place of Publication: Lebanon, Pa

Publisher: Pub. by the Conference,

Date of Publication: 1942.

Physical Description: xi p., 1 Î²., 397 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 24 cm.

Notes: Includes history of congregations by parishes.

Subjects: Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania.; Church buildings - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 284.1 L973

Plan of Bangor Episcopal Church and Churchyard : Churchtown, Lancaster County Pennsylvania showing the relative position of the tombstones as they were in October, 1940

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Date of Publication: 1940.

Call Number: 974.815 CAER 700

Responsibility: William Frederic Worner.

Place of Publication: [s.l.]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1940.

Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 75 cm x 105 cm.

Notes: Shows location of numbered burial plots.; Rineers "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County", page 51, #1.; Tombstone numbers corrolate with the names numbered in Vol. 8, page 185 of Worners "Tombstone Inscriptions from Graveyards in Lancaster County Pennsylvania".

Subjects: Bangor Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery (Churchtown, Pa.) - Maps.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Caernarvon Township; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Caernarvon township

Additional Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 CAER 700

The history of St. James' Church (Protestant Episcopal) 1744-1944

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Author: Klein, H. M. J.

Date of Publication: 1944.

Call Number: 283 J29h

Responsibility: by H.M.J. Klein and William F. Diller.

Author: Klein, H. M. J.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Published by the vestry, St. James' Church,

Date of Publication: 1944.

Physical Description: 2v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Spine title vol. 1 : Saint James Church 1744 to 1944, vol. 2 : Saint James Church 1945-1970 - St James Chruch 1970-1994.; Reissued in 1994, together with an augmented edition of St. James' Church (Protestant Episcopal) at mid-century and St. James Church (Protestant Episcopal) at 250 years by Katharine K. Hutchinson, 1994 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the church.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-342).

Subjects: St. James' Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Episcopal Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Hutchinson, Katharine K.; Diller, James F.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 283 J29h

The story of Dillerville

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Author: Pyle, James I.

Date of Publication: 1949

buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Section 0, Philadelphia, Pa. Adam Diller was captain in the Second Cavalry Regiment, Second Brigade, of Pennsylvania Militia, 1814. Sheriff of Lan- caster County, 1827. Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, 1839- 1845, and was considered as a candidate for Governor of Penn

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Responsibility: by James I. Pyle.

Author: Pyle, James I.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1949

Physical Description: [65]-88 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 53, no. 3

Subjects: Diller family.; Diller, Adam, - 1790-1859.; Dillerville School (Lancaster County, Pa.); Quarries and quarrying - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Railroads - Pennsylvania.; Railroad stations - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Dillerville (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 53, number 3 (1949), p. 65-88Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.53

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Southeastern Pennsylvania, a history of the counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia and Schuylkill

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Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Date of Publication: [1943]

Call Number: 974.800912 N791

Responsibility: J. Bennett Nolan, supervising editor ...

Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, New York

Publisher: Lewis historical publishing company, inc.

Date of Publication: [1943]

Physical Description: 3 v. fronts., ill. (incl. maps) plates, ports., facsims. (part col. 1 double) col. coats of arms, col. geneal. tables. 27 1/2 cm.

Notes: Vols. 1 and 2 paged continuously.; Vol. 3 consists of biographies.; LCHS has vols. 1 and 3 only.; Includes bibliographies.

Subjects: Berks County (Pa.) - History.; Bucks County (Pa.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Delaware County (Pa.) - History.; Montgomery County (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia County (Pa.) - History.; Schuylkill County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.800912 N791

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History of Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company, Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company, Lancaster, Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company : and any other trolley roads in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania

Records of the Ministerial Acts pertaining to the Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, 1728-1869 : Cocalico Township, Lancaster County Pa

Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church, Rohrerstown, Pa. : a century of service, 1843 [to] 1943

History of the Moravian congregation of Lititz, Pennsylvania

Monthly fire records of Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1882 to 1950

The history of the Cookman Methodist Church Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., 1894-1946

The history of the gas and electric industries in Lancaster County

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History of the classis of Lancaster of the Eastern Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1852-1940

Two centuries of Reading, Pa., 1748-1948; a history of the county seat of Berks County

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Geologic notes on the Pequea Silver Mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : A brief history of the Pequea Silver Mine Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Centennial history of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1846-1946

Patriotic background : an address by Hon. William H. Keller, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, St. James Church, Lancaster (Pa.) May 28, 1944 : under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution

Cannon Hill and the Hessian ditch with personal reminiscences of the Furnace Hills

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The history of a church (Dunker) with comments featuring the First church of the brethren of Philadelphia, Pa., 1813-1943

The history of the Lancaster conference of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and the adjacent states, together with the histories of its congregations

Plan of Bangor Episcopal Church and Churchyard : Churchtown, Lancaster County Pennsylvania showing the relative position of the tombstones as they were in October, 1940

The history of St. James' Church (Protestant Episcopal) 1744-1944

The story of Dillerville

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Southeastern Pennsylvania, a history of the counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia and Schuylkill