Students of Rothsville Central School, 1908. Mr. Zimmerman, teacher, is standing at left of third row. To his left if Victor Hallacher. Back row, left to right: Royal Haines, Ruth Royer, Esther Martin, Mame Hess, Erla Witmer, unidentified. Third row, left to right, beginning to the right of Victor Hallacher: Elam Witmer, Eddie Grube, Katie Royer, Nora Kready, Elsie Martin, Blanche Leeking, unidentified, Elsie Conrad, Harry Zook, unidentified, Estella Hackman. Second row, left to right: Phares Fry, [Harvey] Kissinger, Edna Fry, [Lizzie] Oberholtzer, Elsie Birkenbine, unidentified, Kathryn Royer, Gertie Frymyer, Ray Grube, Warren Leeking. First row, left to right: Luke Royer, Walter Behmer, unidentified, [Alvin] Weaver, unidentified, Chester Adams, Charles Zook, Jeff Musser.
Katie Royer was the daughter of Christian Royer and Isabella Habecker. Kathryn Royer was the daughter of George Royer and Cora Sweigart.
Historic Pennsylvania: Ephrata Cloister, Founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel and a group of German Pietists, who established a Protestant monastery known as the German Seventh Day Baptist. Veiw shows interior of the Saal (Church). The chamfered pilasters are two stories high. The table is pegged pine plank, 16.5" x 21". On the wall, an original Fraktur-Shriften (Biblical sayings and poem) in the early writign school. Restoration by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Ephrata Academy - Built in 1837 by the Religious Society of Seventh Day (German) Baptists. At one time it was a fashionable boarding school. It served to carry on the fine education tradtion of the 18th century Ephrata Religious Community. It was later used by the township school system as late as 1926.
Cloister Country Store, Ephrata. Adjoining historic Ephrata Cloister. Having fun at t Cloister country Store - this Illinois family finds a family shot in the Gruber farm wagon a lasting memento of their Pennsylvania Cutch Country vacation. Patterned after a Pennsylvania Dutch barn, this early American Country Store feateures native handcrafted products. Pennsylvania Dutch food, hex signs, coins, stamps and antiques.
