Petition to the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions from citizens of Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, to have a new road laid out so that they may get to their post office without having to pay a turnpike toll.
The original of this document is in Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, MG-268, Series 2, Box 3, Folder 46.
Land draft of two tracts of land in Salisbury Twp. - one surveyed February 1812 containing 79 1/4 acres and 6 perches, the other surveyed in 1797 containing 10 acres.
Page 18: Home of Mr. Enfield Walker, Gap, Pa., December 4, 1901; Two women with a bucket, two women and two children on steps to house, "Star Rock, August 1901"; Group of kids in front of Christmas tree, "Miss Musselman's Kindgergarten Xmas 1901 - flashlight"; Group of people with a horse and sleigh, "Philip's birthday party, February 12, 1902"; Farmer's Bank, East King and Duke Streets, October 1901; "Walker sitting hall, Gap, Pa., December 4, 1901".
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
