Mount Joy Bicentennial Committee presents a pictorial tour of the Mount Joy area in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of Mount Joy Pennsylvania, 1851-1976
"The tax records for this township [Mount Joy] which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1759, 1769-1770, 1772-73, 1776-78, 1780-82, 1785-90, 1792-94, 1797-1803, 1805-11, 1813-16, 1818, 1820-22, 1825. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
Front depicts three buildings of the Ephrata Cloister (Almonry, Saal, and Saron) and reads "Ephrata Cloister" beneath image. Plate has a floral design along its rim.
Back reads "Historic Pennsylvania / Ephrata Cloister / This Protestant Monastic Community was / founded by Conrad Beissel in 1732. Comprising / the spiritual colonial community were a / brotherhood, a sisterhood, and householders. / The religious excelled in calligraphic art, / music, and printing-of books and broadsides. / During the Revolutionary War they cared for / hundreds of wounded soldiers from the / battle of Brandywine in 1777. / / Three of the original buildings still standing / are shown - Almonry (alms and bakehouse) / SAAL (Meeting house) and Saron (Sister's house)"
1776-1976 bicentennial commemorative Conestoga Valley plate. White earthenware body with brown transferprint. Front features map of the Conestoga Valley in center surrounded by different buildings and scenes. Back has story of bicentennial printed in green along with maker's mark.
