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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14879
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
  6 websites  
Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1919.
Physical Description
pp. 84-90 , 182-190 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
This article was serialized across several issues. This record provides links to each installment. Most of the links are from the publisher's official online repository, although two parts were only available on the HathiTrust online depository.
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volumes 42 (p. 1-28, 127-140, 235-258, & 358-360) & 43 (p. 84-90 and 182-190).
Summary
The author writes about the " Kings Highway ", the first road from Philadelphia to the Lancaster area, and he then recounts the building of the Philadelphia to Lancaster Turnpike. The third part of his article describes the various taverns and points of interest along the Lancaster County portion of the Turnpike.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Roads - Pennsylvania.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Phladelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP, vols. 42 & 43
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The landless worker : an index of economic and social change in Chester County, Pa., 1750-1820

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Author
Simler, Lucy.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.114
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Lucy Simler.
Author
Simler, Lucy.
Physical Description
p. 163 - 199.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 114 (April 1990).
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Labor - Pennsylvania - Chester County
Women - Pennsylvania - Chester County
Chester County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.114
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Growing up free and black in mid-nineteenth century Lancaster County

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Author
Mitchell, Faith.
Date of Publication
2011.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Faith Mitchell, Ph.D.
Author
Mitchell, Faith.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
pp. 102-113.
Summary
"By following the story of my great-grandmother Isabella Ford's life, and adding to it with information from available sources, I have been able to get a better understanding of the circumstances of Lancaster's free blacks. Her story provides a sense of life in mid-nineteenth century Lancaster County and shows how free black families held their own, despite an environment that was often unfriendly and that restricted their opportunities by both law and custom."
Subjects
Ford, Maria Proctor
Proctor, Jeremiah
Ford, Ellen Isabella
Proctor, James
Proctor, Hannah
Ford, John
Skerrett, Emma Victoria Crawford
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Fulton Township
African American families - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African American Methodists
Underground Railroad
Slavery - America - History
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 113, number 2/3 (2011), p. 102-113Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.113
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Coatesville and the lynching of Zachariah Walker : death in a Pennsylvania steel town

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21770
Author
Downey, Dennis B.,
Date of Publication
2011.
Call Number
364.134 D748c
  2 websites  
Responsibility
Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser.
ISBN
9781609492809
1609492803
Author
Downey, Dennis B.,
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
History Press,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
"The present work is a substantial revision of our earlier work entitled No Crooked Death, published by the University of Illinois Press in 1991"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158).
Contents
"That quiet sabbath evening" -- "A conspiracy of silence" -- "A disgraceful travesty of justice" -- "To humiliate the administration of justice" -- "An American tragedy."
Summary
"On a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched--burned alive--by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperous Pennsylvania steel town. At the time of his very public murder, Walker, an African American millworker, was under arrest for the shooting and killing of a respected local police officer. Investigated by the NAACP, the horrific incident garnered national and international attention. Despite this scrutiny, a conspiracy of silence shrouded the events, and the accused men and boys were found not guilty at trial. On the 100th anniversary of the lynching and the 20th anniversary of the books original release as No Crooked Death, authors Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser bring new insight to events that rocked a community."--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects
Walker, Zachariah, - -1911.
Lynching - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Coatesville - Case studies.
Trials (Murder) - Pennsylvania - Coatesville.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Trials (Murder)
Coatesville (Pa.) - Race relations.
Pennsylvania - Chester County - Coatesville.
Case studies.
Additional Author
Hyser, Raymond M.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
364.134 D748c
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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17278
Author
Landis, Charles Israel,
Call Number
021 L257
  2 websites  
Author
Landis, Charles Israel,
Physical Description
83 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Caption title.
Reprinted from The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, v. 42-43, 1918-1919.
Summary
The spine of this book reads "Juliana Library Co. Lancaster". This book contains reprints of three articles that were penned by Charles Landis. The first article is entitled "The Julianan Library Company in Lancaster". It is followed by "History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike". And the last article is entitled "Jasper Yeates and his times".
The author writes about the " Kings Highway ", the first road from Philadelphia to the Lancaster area, and he then recounts the building of the Philadelphia to Lancaster Turnpike. The third part of his article describes the various taverns and points of interest along the Lancaster County portion of the Turnpike.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Roads - Pennsylvania.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
021 L257
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Early industries on the Octorara

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3738
Author
Houston, J. W.
Date of Publication
1897
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Dr. J. W. Houston.
Author
Houston, J. W.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1897
Physical Description
[204]-217 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 6
Subjects
Industries.
Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Octoraro Creek (Pa. and Md.)
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 6 (1897), p. 204-217
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History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14878
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Date of Publication
1918.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Charles I. Landis.
Author
Landis, Charles Israel ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1918.
Physical Description
pp. 1-28 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.42.
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turmpike Road.
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Presbyterian Church Records- Middle Octorara, Bart Twp: [Church records 1796-1827 including membership list, accounts and minutes]

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Corporate Author
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Call Number
Drawer 2, sec. 5: #382
  2 websites  
Alternate Title
Presbyterian Church Records- Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Corporate Author
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Physical Description
1 reel , 35 mm.
Notes
Membership list
Subscription accts, 1816-1823
Treasurer's accts, 1815-1827
Trustees' minutes, 1796-1822
Labeled on box #382.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 43, #1.
Subjects
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Bart (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 2, sec. 5: #382
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PA-23, LR-1124, section B01, Lancaster County: environmental impact statement

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Author
US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Adaministration and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
  2 websites  
Author
US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Adaministration and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Physical Description
This report documents studies of traffic and transportation improvements in Manheim, East Lampeter and Lancaster Townships and the City of Lancaster along the route of New Holland Avenue (PA-23). The proposed project will provide a relocated route east of New Holland Avenue to connect US-30 with Chestnut and Walnut Streets in Lancaster.
Subjects
Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Environmental impact statements - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Electronic Resources
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Along the western Brandywine

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6012
Author
MacElree, Wilmer W.,
Edition
2d ed.
Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
974.813 M141b
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Wilmer W. MacElree.
Author
MacElree, Wilmer W.,
Edition
2d ed.
Place of Publication
[West Chester, Pa
Publisher
F. S. Hickman, printer]
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
199 p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) facsims. 28 cm.
Summary
A 1909 tour of the towns and places near the west branch of the Brandywine Creek, it includes Honey Brook and the railroad that once ran through it, Coatesville, Hibernia, Icedale, West Chester, Chadds Ford, and many other sites in Chester County, northern Maryland, and Delaware.
Subjects
Brandywine, Battle of, 1777.
Chester County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Brandywine Creek.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 M141b
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