"One of the best known legends from York County, Pennsylvania, is Toad Road and the Seven Gates of Hell. What is the real story? Where are the Seven Gates of Hell? Where is Toad Road? Extensive research and on site exploration is combined to dispel urban legends while revealing stranger truths. Journey beyond the Seventh Gate and into other weird places in York, Lancaster, and Adams Counties. Explore Hex Hollow, Chickies Rock, lonely graveyards, and old iron forges. Read true tales of bigfoot creatures, witches, ghosts, werewolves, and flying phantoms. Sometimes they haunt the woods behind you. Sometimes they are in your own back yard." [from the publisher]
What's cookin' among our boys and girls in the Armed Forces : the Cocalico Valley and World War II : Volume I - December 1941 through April 1944, Volume II - May 1944 through December 1945
compiled by Clarence E. Spohn in cooperation with The Ephrata Review.
Place of Publication
Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
The Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ,
Date of Publication
2013-2014.
Physical Description
v. ; ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"This two-volume set of books is dedicated to all of the brave men and women from the Cocalico Valley who served during World War II."
Includes index.
"197 of Limited Edition of 1,000 copies."
Summary
"A second volume, picking up where Volume I left off, which continues to tell the stories of the men and women from the Cocalico Valley who served their country during WWII, as told by newspaper articles published in The Ephrata Review from May1944 through December 1945. The newspaper articles include letters written home by those in the military, along with articles found in the paper's weekly columns, "What's Cookin' Among Our Boys in the Armed Services," the weekly Denver column, "With Those in the Service," and extracts from community "Personals" and news columns relating to individuals in the military. Also included are articles on those killed and wounded in the service of their country. Each chapter begins with an abbreviated time-line of the War during the period covered by that chapter. The volume is indexed by surname." [from the Journal of the Historical Society Of The Cocalico Valley]
Hale Columbia. Columbia, Pa., medical record, 1893-1905: A true and complete study of infectious disease & medicine in a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century
Contains extensive footnotes and citations. Indexed.
Summary
"From 1893 until 1905 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required local municipalities to record vital statistics such as births, deaths, and cases of infectious disease. The record for the community of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., survives in the county archives and is a valuable record of one community's struggle to contain diseases that are seldom encountered today: smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Within these pages, one can learn about the diseases and the treatments available in that time period and meet the physicians and community leaders who were in the front lines of the sturggle." [book jacket]
Chapters: The Institutions/ The Diseases/ The Cures/ Medical Education in the 1800s/ The Physicians of Columbia/ The Ledger/ Annotations
Introduction. Mind awakening mind: a college and its mission -- Franklin College: "to make good men and useful citizens" -- Marshall College: Christian bildung on the frontier -- Early Franklin & Marshall: upholding tradition and classical education -- A modern awakening: negotiating change in the 1890s -- Liberal culture in service of efficiency, 1900-1918 -- Building a greater Franklin & Marshall, 1919-1934 -- The college in depression and war, 1935-1946 -- The academic revolution: setting the stage, 1946-1956 -- Academic revolution meets counter-revolution, 1956-1962 -- Academic revolution meets the sixties revolt, 1962-1968 -- Reasoning with the whirlwind, 1968-1970 -- Retrenchment and reassessment, 1970-1982 -- Enriching liberal education, 1983-2002.
Summary
"A narrative history of Franklin & Marshall College. Combines analysis of historical context and institutional development with accounts of the college during crucial periods such as the Civil War and the 1960s"--Provided by publisher.
2015 U. S. Women's open Lancaster Country Club, Lancaster, PA July 6-12, 2015 : The Women's Open is the oldest championship open to women professionasl and amaterus. A USGA record of 1,873 golfers competed to play in the 2015 U. S. Women's Open at Lancaster Country Club
PARTIAL CONTENTS. -- Jerry and Anita Hostetter (top left), Ted Brubaker (Margot's & George's son (white shirt, bottom left), p. 30 -- Mark and Patti Mauer (top left), p. 33 -- Kathryn Brandt, Bobby and Emmy (top right), p. 34 -- In the crowd, Kathryn and Bobby Brandt (top right), p. 40 -- Bernadette & Eugene Gardner (top right), p. 48 -- Scott Radcliff and Eugene Gardner (bottom right), p. 48 -- Scott Radcliffe and Eugene Gardner (top right), p. 55 -- Bobby Brandt (top right) and Rod Messick (bottom right) p. 59.
"Pastor Croll was an accomplished historian and obviously made use of the best available sources for his text...he discovered, in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,...the first history of Oley, the lengthy manuscript entitled 'Fragment of the past history of Oley', by Dr. Peter G. Bertolet...This was based largely on interviews with Oley Valley residents, many of whom were born in the 18th century....After several competent historical chapters on the settlement and early religious patterns and conflicts in the Valley, Pastor Croll concentrates on some of the major families of Oley." [forward]
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ; v. 141, no. 1
Summary
Abstract: Introducing a fresh metric—general courts-martial per thousand fit-for-duty troops—this article expands Valley Forge historiography by quantifying trial incidence in a forty-two-month context to suggest military justice played a significantly greater role over the winter of privation than previously thought. Courts-martial discipline, the essay argues, served as General Washington's fundamental instrument of command and control until drillmaster Baron von Steuben's iconic parade-ground regimen took hold. As Washington's unheralded "courtroom von Steuben," Judge Advocate General John Laurance superintended rule of military law over eighty tattered Valley Forge regiments by diligently enforcing the 1776 Articles of War among private soldiers, officers, and civilians alike.
Vol. 12 has imprint: Camden, Maine : Picton Press ; Plymouth, Mass. : [Distributed by] General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
v. 1. Families: Francis Eaton; Samuel Fuller; William White -- v. 2. Families: James Chilton; Richard More; Thomas Rogers -- v 3. pt.1 Family of William Brewster -- v. 3, pt 2. Family: George Soule -- v. 4. (2nd ed.) Edward Fuller -- v. 5. Families: Edward Winslow; John Billington -- v. 6. Family: Stephen Hopkins -- v. 7. Family: Peter Brown -- v. 8. Family of Degory Priest 2nd ed. -- v. 9. Family of Francis Eaton -- v. 10. Family of Samuel Fuller -- v. 11, pt. 1 Edward Doty: his descendants through sons Edward and John -- v. 11, pt. 2. Edward Doty: his descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth -- 12. Francis Cooke of the Mayflower; the first five generations -- 13. Family of William White.
v.14. Family: Myles Standish -- v.15. Families: James Chilton; Richard More -- v.16. Family: John Alden -- v.16, pt.2. John Alden: descendants of his daughter Elizabeth -- v.16,pt.3. John Alden: descendants of his sons, John, Joseph, and Jonathan -- v. 16, pt 4 Family: John Alden -- v.16, pt 5 Family: John Alden -- v.17. Family: Isaac Allerton -- v.18, pt.1. Family: Richard Warren; -- v.18, pt.2. Richard Warren: his descendants of his daughters Mary, Anna and Elizabeth -- v.18, pt.3. Richard Warren: his descendants of Abigail, Nathaniel and Joseph -- v. 19 Thomas Rogers (2nd. ed) -- v. 19, pt. 2. Family of Thomas Rogers and Elizabeth Rodgers - v.20, pt.1. Family: Henry Samson - -v. 20, pt.2: Henry Samson: his descendants through son James and daughters Elizabeth, Hannah, [daughter], Dorcas - v. 20, pt. 3. Family of Henry Samson -- v. 21, pts. 1&2. Family: John Billington [compiled and revised by Harriet W. Hodge, Robert S. Wakefield, John Bradley Arthaud] v.21, pt3 Family of John Billington: sixth generation descendants compiled by John Bradly Arthaud-- v. 22. Family: William Bradford -- v.23, pt.1. Family: John Howland: First four generations of his children Lydia, Hannah, Joseph, Jabez, Ruth and Isaac -- v.23, pt.2. Family: John Howland: Fifth generation of his children Lydia and Hannah --v. 23. pt.3. John Howland: Fith and sixth generations of his sons Joseph and Jabez -- v.24, The Descendants of Elder Willilam Brewster, part 1: Generations 1 through 4 - v. 24, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, part 2: Generations 5 and 6 - v. 24, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, part 3: Generations 5 and 6 - v, 25, the Descendants of Governor Edward Winslow, Generations 1-8.
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; ser. 2, v. 46
Notes
Illustrated lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285) and indexes.
Contents
Berks County: the center of it all -- Daniel Schumacher: a Fraktur artist of some note -- Henrich Otto, 1784 -- Friederich Krebs, August 4, 1790 -- Johann Valentin Schuller -- The greatest development of Fraktur writing, 1800-1835 -- Johann Ritter: a century of influence -- Conclusion: The last flickering -- Appendix 1. Fraktur artist who routinely made Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 2. Scriveners who routinely infilled Taussscheine for Berks County families -- Appendix 3. Berks Couny printers of Taussscheine in order by active dates -- Appendix 4. Translations.
