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Print, Photographic

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Collection: Gerald High Schoolhouse Photo Album

Object ID: GH-01-01-251

Date Range: 1997

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Gerald High Schoolhouse Photo Album

Description: Smoketown School, Hobson Road near Witmer

Provenance: Gift of the widow of the late Gerald High. Digital images only.

Date Range: 1997

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Schoolhouses; Smoketown School; Smoketown, East Lampeter Twp.

Place: East Lampeter Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 6 inches

Condition: Not Rated

Object ID: GH-01-01-251

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 18th Century

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo858

Author: Wright, F. Edward.

Date of Publication: 1994

Call Number: 310.3 W949

Responsibility: F. Edward Wright

Author: Wright, F. Edward.

Place of Publication: Westminster, MD

Publisher: Family Line Publications

Date of Publication: 1994

Physical Description: 5 v. 21 cm.

Contents: Volume 1: Blaser's Reformed Church (Elizabethtown, Pa.)--Cocalico Reformed Church (East Cocalico Twp., Pa.--Manheim Lutheran Church (Manheim, Pa.)--Manheim Reformed Church (Manheim, Pa)--Maytown Lutheran Church (Maytown, Pa.)--Maytown Reformed Church (East Donegal Twp., Pa.)--Muddy Creek Evangelical Church (East Cocalico Twp., Pa.)--Muddy Creek Reformed Church (East Cocalico Twp., Pa.)--Pequea Reformed (Strasburg Twp., Pa.)--Reiher's Reformed (Elizabeth Twp., Pa.)--Seltenreich Reformed (Earl Twp., Pa.)--Little Cocalico (Swamp) Reformed (West Cocalico Twp., Pa.)--White Oaks Congregation (Penn Twp., Pa.)--Elizabethtown Lutheran (Elizabethtown, Pa.)--Bergstrasse Lutheran Church (Ephrata Twp., Pa.).; Volume 2: First Reformed Church (Lancaster, Pa.); Volume 3: Sadsbury Monthly Meeting (Sadsbury Twp., Pa.)--St. James Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.)--St. Mary's Church (Lancaster, Pa.)--Register of Marriages and Baptisms Performed by Rev. John Cuthbertson--Baptisms and Marriages Performed by Casper Stoever--Donegal Presbyterian Church (East Donegal Twp., Pa.); Volume 4: Warwick Moravian (Lititz, Pa.)--Lititz Moravian (Lititz, Pa.)--Donegal/Mount Joy Moravian (Mount Joy Twsp., Pa.); Volume 5: Lancaster Moravian Church (Lancaster, Pa.)--St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.)--St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Penryn (Pa.)--Cocalico/Conestoga German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation--White Oak German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation (Warwick Twp., Pa.)--East Conewago German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation (Warwick Twp., Pa.)--East Conewago German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation (Mountjoy Township, Pa.)--Ephrata Seventh-Day German Baptist Church (Ephrata, Pa.)--Register of Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing Middletown Lutheran & vicinity--Allegheny Lutheran Churches (Berks County)--Lancaster County Entries in Rev. John Waldschmidt's Register (Reformed)--Muddy Creek Moravian.; Volume 6: New Holland Lutheran Church [New Holland, Pa.}--Holy Trinity Lutheran Church [Lancaster, Pa.]

Subjects: Lancaster Moravian Church (Lancaster, Pa.); St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Strasburg, Pa.); White Oak German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation (Warwick Township, Pa.); East Conewago German Baptist (Dunkard) Congregation, Mountjoy Township, (Pa.); Ephrata Seventh-Day German Baptist Church (Ephrata, Pa.); First Reformed Church (Lancaster, Pa.); Christ Reformed Church (Elizabethtown, Pa.); Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Manheim, Pa.); Zion Reformed Church (New Providence, Pa.); Zion Reformed Church (Elizabeth Township, Pa.); Zeltenreich Reformed Church (Earl Township, Pa.); Jerusalem Reformed Church (Penryn, Pa.); Bethany Reformed Church, Ephrata Twp., Pa.; St. Paul's Reformed Church, Manheim (Boro), Pa.; St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, [Maytown, East Donegal Twp., Pa.]; Maytown Reformed Church, Maytown, [East Donegal Twp., Pa.]; Muddy Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church, [East Cocalico Twp., Pa.]; Muddy Creek Reformed Church, [East Cocalico Twp., Pa.]; Swamp Evangelical Lutheran Church, [West Cocalico Twp., Pa.]; New Holland Lutheran Church [New Holland, Pa.]; Holy Trinity Lutheran Church [Lancaster, Pa.]; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.3 W949

Postcard

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2457d2c4-85b3-4726-8966-552244967300

Collection: Postcard Collection

Title: Town signs

Object ID: 999-185

Date Range: 1994

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Object Name: Postcard

Collection: Postcard Collection

Title: Town signs

Description: Amish horse and buggy with signs for Bird-In-Hand, Intercourse and Blue Ball.

Date Range: 1994

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subject: Postcards

Classification: 999-185

Search Terms: Amish; Horse and buggies; Signs; Intercourse, Leacock Twp.; Blue Ball, East Earl Twp.; Bird-In-Hand, East Lampeter Twp.

Object Name: Postcard

Print Size: 4 x 6 inches

Publisher: Scene-Ics, 905 Wakefield Avenue, Mechanicsburg, PA, 17055

Object ID: 999-185

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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History of St. John's United Methodist Church in celebration of 150 years, 1846-1996

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1262

Date of Publication: 1996

Call Number: 287.6 S143j

Responsibility: Co-editors: Elizabeth Thompson, Carol Dittoe

Place of Publication: Morgantown, Pa

Publisher: Masthof Press

Date of Publication: 1996

Physical Description: viii, 110 p. ill. 22 cm.

Subjects: St. John's United Methodist Church (East Lampeter Township); St. John's Evangelical United Brethren Church (East Lampeter Township)

Additional Author: Thompson, Elizabeth.; Dittoe, Carol.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 287.6 S143j

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

Title Company of Philadelphia Correspondence Deeds Department stores DUSCO Property Management, Inc. East Hempfield Twp. Employees Ephemera Escalators Mortgages Finding aids Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers Gift certificates Ground-rent Hager and Bro., Inc. Hager Realty Corporation Employee

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Collection: 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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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/95c73130-25df-445a-b804-013692114333

Collection: Gerald High Schoolhouse Photo Album

Object ID: GH-01-01-274

Date Range: 1997

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Gerald High Schoolhouse Photo Album

Description: Boys Academy, Route 340 near Bird-In-Hand

Provenance: Gift of the widow of the late Gerald High. Digital images only.

Date Range: 1997

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Schoolhouses; Bird-In-Hand, East Lampeter Twp.

Place: Leacock Twp.

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 6 inches

Condition: Not Rated

Object ID: GH-01-01-274

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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/0e83f2f4-4661-45d1-a955-051521302790

Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 1-10-03-74

Date Range: September 19, 1999

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Eshleman Mill covered bridge over Pequea Creek at Leaman Place.

Date Range: September 19, 1999

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Leaman Place, Paradise Twp.; Covered bridges; Pequea Creek

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 6 inches

Object ID: 1-10-03-74

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Lafayette, 50 years of volunteer service

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1273

Date of Publication: [1994]

Call Number: 352.3 L161

Publisher: Published by the company

Date of Publication: [1994]

Physical Description: 20 p. ill. 28 cm.

Subjects: Lafayette Fire Company (East Lampeter Twp.); Fire departments - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 352.3 L161

The Great Wagon Road : from Philadelphia to the South- How Scotch-Irish and Germanics settled the Uplands

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14185

Author: Rouse, Parke,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Call Number: 973.2 R873

Responsibility: by Parke Rouse, Jr.

Author: Rouse, Parke,

Place of Publication: [Richmond, Va.]

Publisher: Dietz Press,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: x, 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Notes: Originally published, New York : McGraw-Hill, 1973.; Reprinted 2001.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index.; "The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States, particularly the "backcountry". Although a wide variety of settlers traveled southward on the road, two dominant cultures emerged. The German Palatines and Scotch-Irish American immigrants arrived in huge numbers because of unendurable conditions in Europe... Beginning at the port of Philadelphia, where many immigrants entered the colonies, the Great Wagon Road passed through the towns of Lancaster and York in southeastern Pennsylvania. Turning southwest, the road crossed the Potomac River and entered the Shenandoah Valley near present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia. It continued south in the valley via the Great Warriors' Trail (also called the Indian Road), which was established by centuries of Indian travel over ancient trails created by migrating buffalo herds. The Shenandoah portion of the road is also known as the Valley Pike. The Treaty of Lancaster in 1744 had established colonists' rights to settle along the Indian Road. Although traffic on the road increased dramatically after 1744, it was reduced to a trickle during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) from 1756 to 1763. But after the war ended, it was said to be the most heavily traveled main road in America. South of the Shenandoah Valley, the road reached the Roanoke River at the town of Big Lick (today, Roanoke). South of Roanoke, the Great Wagon Road was also called the Carolina Road. At Roanoke, a road forked southwest, leading into the upper New River Valley and on to the Holston River in the upper Tennessee Valley. From there, the Wilderness Road led into Kentucky, ending at the Ohio River where flatboats were available for further travel into the Midwest and even to New Orleans. From Big Lick/Roanoke, after 1748, the Great Wagon Road passed through the Maggoty Gap (also called Maggodee) to the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Continuing south through the Piedmont region, it passed through the present-day North Carolina towns of Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and Charlotte and sites of earlier Indian settlements on the historic Indian Trading Path. The Great Wagon Road ultimately reached Augusta, Georgia, on the Savannah River, a distance of more than 800 miles (1,300 km) from Philadelphia." [wikipedia]

Contents: Chapters: pt. 1. The Appalachian warriors' path. The search for Eldorado -- War among the Iroquois -- pt. 2. The Philadelphia wagon road. Germans in Pennsylvania -- Enter the Scotch-Irish -- A Moravian journey to Carolina -- Along the way South -- Presbyterians in a new land -- Mapping the great mountains -- Bethabara and New Salem -- The threat from the French -- Life in the Appalachians -- pt. 3. The wilderness trail. The wagon road turns West -- The saga of Castle's Woods -- Apostle of the frontier -- pt. 4. A frontier in danger. Andrew Jackson of the Waxhaws -- The exodus of the Quakers -- "The Old Wagoner" against the king -- Conestoga's gift -- Hospitality, North and South -- The spirit of Luther -- In the cabins along the road -- Tuckahoe versus Cohee -- pt. 5. Division and reunion. Stagecoaches and turnpikes -- Great days of the horse -- The Cherokees go West -- The day Doctor Junkin drove North -- Hot heads and cold bodies -- A road is reunited.

Subjects: Great Wagon Road.; Migration, Internal.; Roads; Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.; Trails - Southern States.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.2 R873

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 18th Century

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History of St. John's United Methodist Church in celebration of 150 years, 1846-1996

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Archive

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Print, Photographic

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Print, Photographic

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Lafayette, 50 years of volunteer service

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The Great Wagon Road : from Philadelphia to the South- How Scotch-Irish and Germanics settled the Uplands

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