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A prologue to the construction of the fifth Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge

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Author
Newcomer, L. W.
Date of Publication
1971.
A Prologue to the Construction of the Fifth Columbia- Wrightsville Bridge by L. W. Newcomer Construction of the fifth Columbia-Wrightsville bridge across the Susquehanna River is described, and recorded for posterity, in the Journal of The Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1969
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by L. W. Newcomer.
Author
Newcomer, L. W.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1971.
Physical Description
[119]-124 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 3
Subjects
Bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Bridges
Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government.
York County (Pa.) - Politics and government.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 3 (1971), p. 119-124Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75
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Early Lancaster architecture

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Author
Lippold, John W.
Date of Publication
1971.
his grant. The abundance of limestone and sandstone, and in the northern areas of the county a brown sandstone, provided an immediate and ever ready medium for building. Stone provided solid and substan- tial places of residence, churches, barns, mills, etc., as ability and time became more available
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by John W. Lippold.
Author
Lippold, John W.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1971.
Physical Description
[145]-178 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 4
Subjects
Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 4 (1971), p. 145-178Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75
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College Hill in the 80's and 90's memoirs of a Franklin and Marshall faculty daughter

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Author
Heller, Mary Belle Stahr.
Date of Publication
1971.
to breakfast he saw a bowl of lilies of the valley which my mother had put on the table. I re- member his delight as he smiled and greeted them as friends, "Dear little lilies of the valley." He liked to smoke a cigar after breakfast, but he knew my father didn't like tobacco smoke so he would go out
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by Mary Belle Stahr Heller.
Author
Heller, Mary Belle Stahr.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1971.
Physical Description
[19]-37 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 1
Subjects
Heller, Mary Belle Stahr.
Franklin and Marshall College.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Heller, Jane.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 1 (1971), p. 19-37Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75
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Interesting Lancaster folks, odd and otherwise

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Author
Eyde, Abner McMichael.
Date of Publication
1975
. Welchans, had been a druggist who studied under Dr. John L. Atlee and received his M. D. from the Jefferson Medical College in 1867. He was physician to the County Hospital for sometime and a member of the United States Pension Board of Examining Surgeons. (Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, Eds., History of
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by Abner McMichael Eyde as told to Miriam Eyde Bixler.
Author
Eyde, Abner McMichael.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1975
Physical Description
[6]-14 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 79, no. 1
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Bixler, Miriam Eyde.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 79, number 1 (1975), p. 6-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.79
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Lead and zinc industry in Lancaster County

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1972.
one in Sinking Valley, Blair county, where the contact lines between the shales and the Limestones are quite pro- ductive. The veins at the Bamford mine are most unmistakably "bedded veins, and not fissures or gash veins. They are conformable both to the stratification and dip of the enclosing rocks
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by John Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1972.
Physical Description
[30]-40 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 76, no. 1
Subjects
Lead mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Zinc mines and mining - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 76, number 1 (1972), p. 30-40Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.76
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Hempfield Township 1751-1818 [Tax Records]- also includes East Hempfield 1819-25 and West Hempfield 1820-23

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Author
Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau
Date of Publication
1977
Call Number
Drawer 6, sec. 3: #13
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Hempfield twp. tax lists
Hempfield taxes
Author
Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Date of Publication
1977
Physical Description
Microfilm.
Series
Lancaster County Pa. Tax Records, 1748-1855.
Notes
"The tax records here reproduced for this township [including Columbia], prior to its division in 1818 into East Hempfield and West Hempfield townships, cover the following years: 1751, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1775-81, 1783, 1785-90, 1792-93, 1796-1803, 1805-07, 1809-11, 1813-1818, Undated. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
Subjects
Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Hempfield (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 6, sec. 3: #13
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Lancaster in 1876 observing the centennial year, April 1--June 30, 1876

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Date of Publication
1976.
length and six feet, three inches across the wings and weighed a little over sixteen pounds." - April 1, 1876 The correct scientific name of the American or Whistling Swan is Olor columbianus. Dr. Herbert H. Beck writing in Klein's history of Lancaster County about this bird stated that usually these
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Responsibility
annotated by Dr. George L. Heiges.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1976.
Physical Description
[77]-108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 80, no. 2
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
Additional Author
Heiges, George L.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 80, number 2 (1976), p. 77-108Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.80
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Lancaster in 1876 observing the centennial years, July 1--September 30, 1876

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Date of Publication
1976.
were loudly applauded." "Dr. Thomas C. Porter of Lafayette College, Easton was then in- �troduced and read a historical sketch of the city and county of Lancas- ter. The learned speaker closed with a glowing tribute to our public schools and advancement in all material and intellectual things and was
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Responsibility
annotated by Dr. George L. Heiges.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1976.
Physical Description
[129]-156 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 80, no. 3
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
Additional Author
Heiges, George L.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 80, number 3 (1976), p. 129-156Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.80
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Lancaster in 1876 observing the centennial year, October 1--December 31, 1876

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Date of Publication
1976.
Americana) "AN ENTIRE VILLAGE STRICKEN WITH PESTILENCE - Dr. E. K. Fernsler of Reinholdsville, Lancaster County reported that in a small valley of West Cocalico Township known as Hertzog's Valley, smallpox has broken out and nearly every family in the valley were stricken with the disease. Entire families
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Responsibility
annotated by Dr. George L. Heiges.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1976.
Physical Description
[193]-210 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 80, no. 4
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 80, number 4 (1976), p. 193-210Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.80
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Lancaster in 1876 observing the centennial year

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Author
Heiges, George L.
Date of Publication
1976
extensive woodland which he owned, he cut much of it for poles and railroad ties, the latter for the use of railroads in Lancaster and Berks Counties. He was a long time active member of the Lancaster County Historical Society to which organization he gave many Indian artifacts and pottery from his
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annotated by Dr. George L. Heiges.
Author
Heiges, George L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1976
Physical Description
[3]-30 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 80, no. 1
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Centennial celebrations, etc.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 80, number 1 (1976), p. 3-30Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.80
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