Wenger's Mill covered bridge, also called Rose Hill covered bridge, built in 1849 by Henry Zook. Located on Log Cabin Road, just off of Rose Hill Road. Post card.
Provenance
Photographs of a 2003 Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society bridge safari.
Wenger's Mill covered bridge, also called Rose Hill covered bridge, built in 1849 by Henry Zook. Located on Log Cabin Road, just off of Rose Hill Road. Postcard of painting by Louise Frank.
Provenance
Photographs of a 2003 Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society bridge safari.
You did not write and let me know whether you got home all OK. It is fly killing hot here I suppose it is the same in Phila. Will came from his wedding trip last Thursday. We are all well.
Margaret
Do you recognize this bridge. We were down on the 4th. There was a terrible thunder storm on the 4th. Our boat was destroyed. M."
Pretty Pequea - Looking southeast across the creek. Reverse is ad for Teachers' Vacation Fund Contest for the three most popular teachers, one vote with each pound of coffee from Mack the Coffee Man, contest starts December 1st, 1908, closes June 30 1909.
Historic Pennsylvania: Ephrata Cloister. Founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel and a group of German Pietists, who established a Protestant Monestery known as the German Seventh Day Baptist. Buildings shown are the Saron (Sisters' House), the Saal (Place of Worship), and Beissel's Cottage. Restoration by the Pennsylania Historical and Museum Commission.
"Vorspiel" - depicting the unique life of the solitary in the 18th century Ephrata Cloister - is presented regularly during summer months - at the Cloister, Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
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.
