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Lancaster's heritage: An historical preservation study for Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5285
Corporate Author
Lancaster County Planning Commission.
Date of Publication
1972.
Call Number
720.9 L244
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Corporate Author
Lancaster County Planning Commission.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
The Commission,
Date of Publication
1972.
Physical Description
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., folded map ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes detailed inventory of sites and structures.
This report presents the case for the preservation of the architectural and environmental aspects of this heritage in a balanced, planned relationship with continued contemporary development. Information is offered concerning the County's resources, the dangers to historic areas, and the possibilities for action. While individual County landmarks do deserve additional attention, the primary emphasis within this report is on the overall character of Lancaster's environmental heritage and the need for its preservation. The natural beauty of our rural areas and the pervasive historic character of many of our older communities are among Lancaster County's basic assets.
This study was updated in 1985 by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County. The update's title is "Our present past: An update of Lancaster's Heritage" and can be found in our collection. The author of the update is "Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County".
Bibliography: p. 9-1]-9-2.
Subjects
Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
720.9 L244
Websites
https://lhdo.agverso.com/record?key=8156&agcn=2047&cid=lhdo&lid=LHDO
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Lancaster County : vignettes of people and places

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9458
Date of Publication
1975.
Call Number
974.815 LACO S416
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Place of Publication
Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
Science Press,
Date of Publication
1975.
Physical Description
xi, 96 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Series
Science Press keepsake;
Notes
Christmas keepsake of Science Press, 1975.
Click on Table of Contens for more information.
Contents
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania--Declaration of Independence--Lancaster's Liberty Bell--Pennsylvania's Militia Meets in Lancaster--George Ross Signs the Declaration--Edward Hand...The Doctor becomes a General--Witness Tree at Donegal--A Monastic Community in Ephrata--Moravians at Lititz--Iron Industry of Lancaster County--Baron Stiegel of Manheim--Grist Mills of Lancaster County--Franklin College.
Subjects
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Corporate Author
Science Press.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO S416
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Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/eddb76d5-1587-464c-a322-206961869538
Collection
Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Object ID
MG0237
Date Range
1880-2003
Content Note: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Series 1 includes employee handbooks, a job description, a beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic
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Watt & Shand Collection
Title
Watt & Shand Collection
Description
The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.
Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.
Admin/Biographical History
On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged by series.
Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory
Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners
Date Range
1880-2003
Year Range From
1880
Year Range To
2003
Date of Accumulation
1880-2003
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 06
People
Ammon, Cora Mae Fox
Ammon, John M.
Appel, Eva Rengier
Appel, Percy L.
Baker, Miriam Rengier
Bell, Louise Price
Berger, R. R.
Blatchley, Charles A.
Breyers, C. J.
Buchanan, James
Drukenbrod, Lee Roy
Fehl, J. Herbert
Frantz, I. E.
Fritz, C. C.
Goodhart, E. C.
Groff, Alpheaus S.
Groff, Ella L.
Hermansader, T. F.
Hirsh, Bertha
Hirsh, Gabriel
Hostetter, D. B.
Lively, Henry
Long, Jacob M.
Loss, Natalie M.
Loss, Nathan
Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.
Marshall, Elizabeth Weber
Marshall, George A.
Marshall, George W.
Marshall, Maria L. Good
May, Jennie H.
Miller, E. N.
Myers, Harry
Myers, Maria
Myers, Patricia Marshall
Myrtetus, George B.
Noonan, Ella O.
Noonan, Raymond Smith
Prangley, James
Reed, George R.
Reichley, Jacob Christian
Reifsnyder, Arden P.
Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman
Rengier, Charles F.
Rengier, John S.
Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen
Rohrer, George Redsecker
Rohrer, Jeremiah
Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker
Roth, George R.
Rupert, L. H.
Schaller, Kimberly
Shand, James
Shand, Thomas Marshall
Sherrill, Anita B.
Sherrill, S. Edward
Short, Edwin P.
Skyllas, Drossos A.
Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert
Stiles, H. A.
Stirk, Isaac
Stirk, Sarah C.
Swarr, Donald
Urban, Cassius Emlen
Watt, Laura Louise Geiger
Watt, Peter T.
Weber, May H.
Wisegarver, Harry P.
Witmer, Albert F.
Other Creators
Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)
Subjects
Advertising
Architectural drawings
Blueprints
Building leases
Calendars
Catalogs
Deeds
Department stores
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Letters
Menus
Newsletters
Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.)
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Search Terms
A and S Realty and Investment Corporation
A. B. Rote & Co.
Advertising
Agreements
Air conditioning
American Blower Corporation
Appel & Weber
Architectural plans
Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America
Awards
Blueprints
Bon-Ton
Bon-Ton Beauty Salon
Booklets
C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.
Calendars
Catalogs
Central Automatic Sprinkler Company
Certificates
Columbia
Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company
Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia
Correspondence
Deeds
Department stores
DUSCO Property Management, Inc.
East Hempfield Twp.
Employee handbooks
Employees
Ephemera
Escalators
Finding aids
Fire sprinklers
Floorplans
Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers
Gift certificates
Ground-rent
Hager and Bro., Inc.
Hager Realty Corporation
Heating and ventilation systems
Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County
Historical markers
Insurance policies
Job descriptions
Kroll Electric Company, Inc.
Lancaster
Lancaster Parking Authority
Lancaster Trust Company
Leases
Letters
Manuscript groups
Menus
Mortgages
Newsletters
Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.
Park City Mall
Penn Square
Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
Permits
Poetry
PPL
Price lists
Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company
Reynolds and Reynolds Company
Scrapbooks
Stores, Retail
Total Energy Leasing Corporation
Trion, Inc.
Watt and Shand
Workers' Compensation Act
York Corporation
Extent
4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0237
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection 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 site 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.
Other Numbers
MG-237
Classification
MG0237
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.
The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.
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Water powered grist mills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1825 From the King's Continental, State and County tax and assessment lists at the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1971

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Author
Lord, Arthur C.
Date of Publication
1971.
Call Number
725.4 L866
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Responsibility
by Arthur C. Lord.
Author
Lord, Arthur C.
Place of Publication
S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1971.
Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) ; 28 cm.
Notes
Typescript.
Subjects
Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
725.4 L866
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The Hans Herr House Restoration Committee announces Phase II of the project to restore the oldest surviving house of Lancaster County

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Date of Publication
1975?
Call Number
728.37 H564
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Restoration Committee,
Date of Publication
1975?
Physical Description
12 p. : ill. ; 16 x 23.
Notes
Cover title: The Hans Herr House phase II.
1880 photograph of the House on the cover.
Dated Lentel above door on the cover.
Subjects
Hans Herr House (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Hans Herr House (Lancaster City, Pa.)
Historic buildings - Lancaster (City), Pa.
Additional Corporate Author
Hans Herr House Restoration Committee (Lancaster City, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
728.37 H564
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Let's look at our heritage in Eastern Lancaster County : "Breadbasket of the Revolution"

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Author
Russell, Paul M.
Date of Publication
1977.
Call Number
974.815 EARL R966
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Responsibility
by Paul M. Russell.
Author
Russell, Paul M.
Place of Publication
[New Holland, Pa.]
Publisher
Elanco Chapter, Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee,
Date of Publication
1977.
Physical Description
154 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Subjects
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Miscellanea.
Terre Hill (Pa.) - History.
Brecknock (Pa. : Township) - History.
Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.
East Earl (Pa. : Township) - History.
Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.
New Holland (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 EARL R966
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The private records of Rev. George Jacob Martz, 1869-1878 : comprising deaths, marriages, and baptisms during his ministerium at Womelsdorf Lutheran Church, Berks County, and Lutheran Churches of the southeastern area of Lebanon County and the extreme northern area of Lancaster County, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18144
Author
Martz, George Jacob,
Date of Publication
[1978]
Call Number
974.816 M375
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Author
Martz, George Jacob,
Place of Publication
York, PA
Publisher
South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society,
Date of Publication
[1978]
Physical Description
38 p. ; 28 cm.
Series
Special publication / South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society ; no. 2 (January 1978)
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Berks County
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.816 M375
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Seventy-five years of publishing Lancaster County history

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1971.
Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The
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Responsibility
by John Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1971.
Physical Description
[179]-190 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 4
Subjects
Eshleman, Henry Frank, - 1869-1953.
Worner, William Frederick, - 1888-1944.
Heisey, Martin Luther, - 1881-1964.
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - History.
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Periodicals.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 4 (1971), p. 179-190Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75
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100 years of camera scenes: views of eastern Lancaster county in our nation's second century. A bicentennial project of the eastern Lancaster county chapter of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee, inc

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Corporate Author
Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee. Eastern Lancaster County Chapter. Historic Research Committee.
Date of Publication
1978]
Call Number
974.815 LACO E13
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Corporate Author
Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee. Eastern Lancaster County Chapter. Historic Research Committee.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.?
Publisher
George Roland ;
Date of Publication
1978]
Physical Description
X, 192 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.
East Earl (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.
West Earl (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.
Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.
New Holland (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Terre Hill (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Brecknock (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO E13
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Shadows of the Rhine along the Tulpehocken, book two

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Author
Mohn, Viola Kohl.
Date of Publication
1972.
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 14, no. 7
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Responsibility
By Viola Kohl Mohn, ed. by Henry C. Westenberger.
Author
Mohn, Viola Kohl.
Place of Publication
[Lebanon, Pa.]
Publisher
Lebanon County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1972.
Physical Description
[2] 275-336 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Series
Historical papers and addresses (Lebanon County Historical Society) ;
Notes
"Read in part before the Lebanon County Historical Society, May 25, 1970."
Includes information on the following families: Batdorf, Lehman, Walborn, Koppenhaver, LaRoux, Bickel/Pickel.
Subjects
Batdorf family.
Walborn family.
Lern family.
LaRoux family.
Koppenhaver family.
Pickel family.
Bickel family.
Lehman family.
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Lebanon County (Pa.) - History.
Lebanon County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Lebanon County Historical Society (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 14, no. 7
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