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Canoeing guide to the historic Conestoga

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3193

Corporate Author: Conestoga Valley Association.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 797.122 C747

Corporate Author: Conestoga Valley Association.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Conestoga Valley Association,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: 31 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Canoes and canoeing - Pennsylvania.; Conestoga Valley (Pa.) - History.; Conestoga River - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Pennsylvania - Guidebooks.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 797.122 C747

The old home scene, Conestoga : a look back

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3562

Author: Hess, Larry E.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 974.815 CONE H586

Responsibility: by Larry E. Hess.

Author: Hess, Larry E.

Place of Publication: [Conestoga, Pa.?

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: 60 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Click on Table of Contents for more information.

Contents: Reflection -- Early history -- Conestoga naviagation -- Iron works -- Colemanville Forge -- Match factory -- Railroad -- Magnetic ore mine -- Paper mill -- Dynamite factory -- Casket factory -- Mills -- Tobacco warehouse -- cigar manufacturers -- Hotels, taverns, innkeepers -- Stores -- Gunsmiths, tanyard, post office -- Transportation --Education -- Lodges and tribes -- General Reynolds Band -- Safe Harbor dam -- Do you remember -- Chronology.

Subjects: Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Conestoga (Pa.).; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Conestoga (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 CONE H586

Conestoga River watershed : outline of history 1710-1973

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18928

Edition: Rev. ed.

Date of Publication: 1973

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R289r

Edition: Rev. ed.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: Forry & Hacker, printers,

Date of Publication: 1973

Physical Description: 212 p. : maps, photo. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Outline of history 1710-1980.

Summary: This book appears to be a self-published book created by the Conestoga Valley Association. It is a history of the Conestoga River watershed and includes dozens of black and white photos, maps [includes a pull-out reproduction of a map for the Conestoga Navigation Company, which used the Conestoga River as a slackwater canal], reproductions of posters, biographies, and photos of noted Lancastrians of the early years of the twentieth century and more.

Subjects: Conestoga River - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Conestoga Valley (Pa.) - History

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R289r

Conestoga Transportation Company, 1931-1976

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo393

Author: Sauer, Robert E.

Date of Publication: 1977

Conestoga Transportation Company 1931-1976 by Robert E. Sauer, Jr. A four-mile horsecar line between Lancaster and Millersville opened in November 1874 was the first transit route in the network that was to become Conestoga Transportation Co. The first electric line in the area started operating

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Responsibility: by Robert E. Sauer, Jr.

Author: Sauer, Robert E.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1977

Physical Description: [160]-163 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 81, no. 3

Subjects: Conestoga Transportation Company.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 81, number 3 (1977), p. 160-163Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.81

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Early History of the Church of the Brethren (German Baptist Brethren) in America, 1729-1890

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1560

Author: Bomberger, Christian.

Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 286.5 B844e

Responsibility: revised and edited by Isaac Wayne Keller.

Author: Bomberger, Christian.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: 26 leaves, 28 cm.

Notes: "Among the books and papers which have passed from generation to generation in the Keller family is a small leather-bound, hand-written booklet. The firsrt entry states: "Copy of memorandum of the Brethren's Church kept by Christian Bomberger, Rothsville." The copy was made by Lizzie W. Keller, Springville.; Translation of the German notes by Frielinde Kratz Ebersole.; Not indexed.

Subjects: Conestoga Church of the Breheren (Leola, Pa) - History.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Genealogy; Leola (Pa.) - Church history.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Ebersole, Frielinde Kratz.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 286.5 B844e

Conestoga Church of the Brethren : Two hundred fifieth anniversary, 1724-1974

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4258

Date of Publication: 1974.

Call Number: 289.91 C561

Responsibility: [compiled by] the anniversary committee ; Conestoga Church of the Brethren, Leola, Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: Leola, Pa

Publisher: The committee,

Date of Publication: 1974.

Notes: Printed by Forry and Hacker, Lancaster, Pa.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 409 #4.

Subjects: Conestoga Church of the Breheren (Leola, Pa) - History.; Leola (Pa.) - Church history.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Church history.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.91 C561

Garden Spot trolleys : an illustrated history of the electric street railway in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2870

Author: Cummings, Luther P.

Date of Publication: c1977.

Call Number: 388.4 C971

Responsibility: by Luther P. Cummings and Benson W. Rohrbeck.

Author: Cummings, Luther P.

Place of Publication: West Chester, Pa

Publisher: B. Rohrbeck Traction Publications,

Date of Publication: c1977.

Physical Description: 170 p. : ill., maps (1 fold. in pocket) ; 23 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania traction series

Subjects: Conestoga Traction Company.; Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company.; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway Company.; Lancaster and Southern Street Railway Company.; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Trolley buses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Rohrbeck, Benson W.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 388.4 C971

History of the Conestoga Indians : Lancaster Co., Penna

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15862

Author: Fenstermaker, Gerald B.

Date of Publication: 1978.

Call Number: 974.8011 W363

Author: Fenstermaker, Gerald B.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.?]

Publisher: Gerald B. Fenstermaker,

Date of Publication: 1978.

Physical Description: 17 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series: Archaeological research booklet ; v. 12

Subjects: Conestoga Indians.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 W363

Map of Lawn Crypt Garden, Conestoga Memorial Park

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3290

Date of Publication: 1973.

Call Number: 7974.815 LACI 706

Responsibility: George Johnstone.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: CMS east, inc. ,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Physical Description: 1 map : photocopy ; 61 x 91 cm.

Notes: Blue line print.

Subjects: Conestoga Memorial Park (Lancaster, Pa.) - Maps.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township); Lancaster (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 7974.815 LACI 706

Parcel plan, Garden of Love, Conestoga Memorial Park

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3291

Date of Publication: 1978.

Call Number: 700 505

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Huth Engineers, Inc. ,

Date of Publication: 1978.

Physical Description: 1 map : photocopy ; 61 x 91 cm.

Notes: Blue line print. Gives lot numbers.

Subjects: Conestoga Memorial Park (Lancaster, Pa.) - Maps.; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township); Lancaster (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 700 505

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