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Index [of] Lancaster County Mss. [Miscellaneous] [Papers] : 1724-1772

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18037
Call Number
016 I38 Oversize
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Index of Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers, 1724-1772.
Physical Description
Photocopies ; 37 cm.
Notes
For microfilm copy of materials indexed, see microfilm #245, part 1 in 2 volumes. Table of contents with each volume.
Subjects
Blunston, Samuel, - 1689-1745.
Court records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Indexes.
Taxation - Lists.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Paxton Boys.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Occupations.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Boundaries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
016 I38 Oversize
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Lancaster's heritage: An historical preservation study for Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5285
Corporate Author
Lancaster County Planning Commission.
Date of Publication
1972.
Call Number
720.9 L244
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Lancaster County Planning Commission.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
The Commission,
Date of Publication
1972.
Physical Description
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., folded map ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes detailed inventory of sites and structures.
This report presents the case for the preservation of the architectural and environmental aspects of this heritage in a balanced, planned relationship with continued contemporary development. Information is offered concerning the County's resources, the dangers to historic areas, and the possibilities for action. While individual County landmarks do deserve additional attention, the primary emphasis within this report is on the overall character of Lancaster's environmental heritage and the need for its preservation. The natural beauty of our rural areas and the pervasive historic character of many of our older communities are among Lancaster County's basic assets.
This study was updated in 1985 by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County. The update's title is "Our present past: An update of Lancaster's Heritage" and can be found in our collection. The author of the update is "Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County".
Bibliography: p. 9-1]-9-2.
Subjects
Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
720.9 L244
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Map of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19526
Author
Scott, Joshua.
Date of Publication
1824.
Call Number
912.74815 L244 1824
  1 website  
Responsibility
respectfully dedicated to the inhabitants by Joshua Scott.
Author
Scott, Joshua.
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
1824.
Physical Description
1 map : hand col., cloth backing ; 87 x 115 cm., folded to 93 x 61 cm.
Notes
General-content county map also showing election districts.
Hand col. to emphasize township boundaries and territories.
Relief shown by hachures.
Orientated with north toward the upper left.
Prime meridian: Washington (D.C.).
Published "Lancaster January 1st 1824".
Originally printed on 4 sheets (later conjoined).
Copy 2: From the collections of the Heritage Center, P05.29.1.
LC Land ownership maps,
Copy 2: green boards.
Copy 1: Marble boards, three-quarater red leather, spine taped.
Subjects
Election districts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.
Landowners - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.
Election districts.
Landowners.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.
Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
912.74815 L244 1824
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Presbyterian Church Records- Middle Octorara, Bart Twp: [Church records 1796-1827 including membership list, accounts and minutes]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16418
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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Lancaster's golden century, 1821-1921; a chronicle of men and women who planned and toiled to build a city strong and beautiful

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1346
Author
Klein, H. M. J.
Date of Publication
1921.
Call Number
974.815 LACO K64
  1 website  
Responsibility
written and comp. by H.M.J. Klein ...
Author
Klein, H. M. J.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
Hager and Bro.,
Date of Publication
1921.
Physical Description
3 p. ø., 130 p. illus., pl., ports. 19 cm.
Notes
"To commemorate one hundred years of the house of Hager, April, 1921."
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Hager & Brother, Lancaster, Pa.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO K64
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The building and furniture trades in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1750-1800

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14347
Author
Fanelli, Doris Devine.
Date of Publication
1979.
Call Number
690 F211
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Doris Devine Fanelli.
Author
Fanelli, Doris Devine.
Place of Publication
[Newark, Del.]
Publisher
Fanelli,
Date of Publication
1979.
Physical Description
iii, 77 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Principal faculty advisor: Benno M. Forman, Dept. of Art History.
Bibliography: leaves 50-55.
Contents
Chapters: Introduction - History of Lancaster Borough - The building and furniture trades in Lancaster - Economic Status of the Furniture and Building Trades in Lancaster - Success and Kinship - Products , perception , and use of material culture - Conclusion.
Summary
"Lancaster, Pennsylvania, flourished during the last half ofthe eighteenth century. The borough had been founded in 1729 as an inland supply center for the lucrative fur trade and as a gateway to western expansion. The financial opportunities Lancaster offered attracted merchants, professional men, tradesmen, and artisans. This thesis focuses on one group of craftsmen, woodworkers involved in thebuilding and furniture trades between 1750 and 1800. German immigration to southeastern Pennsylvania was high during the eighteenth century, and many of them settled in Lancaster. The ethnic ratio of the woodworkers reflected the town's five-to-one, German-to-British (that is, English, Irish, and Scotch-Irish ) ratio. These artisans shared a common technological skill and, in most cases, a common cultural heritage. This study will examine the growth of thewoodworking trade and will isolate factors that contributed to thewoodworkers' success or failure in the borough. The craftsmen's products will be discussed to determine the extent the Germans adaptedto the British culture and simultaneously retained their ethnic identity. [from the introduction]
Subjects
Woodworkers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Furniture industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
690 F211
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Physical and industrial geography of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, by H. Justin Roddy

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2043
Author
Roddy, H. Justin
Date of Publication
1916.
Call Number
917.4815 R686
  1 website  
Author
Roddy, H. Justin
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New era printing company,
Date of Publication
1916.
Physical Description
vi, 113 p. illus., pl., fold. maps, diagr. 24 cm.
Subjects
Physical geography - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Industries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
917.4815 R686
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The ambitions of William Henry

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17509
Author
Gordon, Scott Paul.
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Scott Paul Gordon.
Author
Gordon, Scott Paul.
Physical Description
p. 254-284.
Notes
This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.
Summary
HISTORIANS HAVE TRAPPED William Henry of Lancaster (1729–86) in the identity of gunsmith. Though meant as a compliment— most accounts portray Henry as the most important gunsmith in the "rifle-making hub of colonial America," Lancaster County— - this confinement is ironic, since Henry escaped this occupation as soon as he was able. The term gunsmith, then as now, could describe men who repaired guns, who produced specialized gun parts (such as barrels or locks), who created an entire gun from scratch (lock, stock, and barrel), or who ran a factory that employed other men. Henry seems not to have engaged in any of these activities after 1760. By the last decade of his life, Henry had achieved a level of financial security (and apparently embodied the virtuous independence thought to derive from it) that led his peers to entrust him with positions of responsibility and that left Henry free to accept them. He served first in local and state governments and was later appointed an administrator and financier for the Continental army and elected twice to the Continental Congress. We have failed to register the shape of his career, the magnitude of his transformation; instead, historians have imagined that during all these varied activities, Henry continued to work as a gunsmith. Indeed, the belief that Henry "was engaged in the manufacture of firearms for over thirty years," that he produced the rifles or muskets carried by soldiers from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, has been central to stories about him. [abstract]
Subjects
Henry, William, - 1729-1786.
Simon, Joseph, - 1712-1804.
Gunsmiths - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Contained In
The Pennsylvania Magazine orf History and Biography, v. 136, no. 3.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v. 136, no.3.
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Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution : at "Indian Rock", Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday P.M., September 20, cmmxii

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19384
Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
923.5 H236c
  1 website  
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
s.l.]
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
8 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Notes
Order of exercises and songs laid in.
Summary
Program from the ceremony to commemorate Lancaster County's involvement in the American Revolution. The order of events in the ceremony is included. Also includes a chronology of Lancaster County's participation in events related to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, citing General Edward Hand's activities. A genealogy of the Hand family is included in the program.
Subjects
Hand, Edward , - 1744-1802.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 H236c
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"Both ornamental and useful" : the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital

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Date of Publication
1990.
Call Number
362.5 B749
  1 website  
Responsibility
Prepared by Monique Bourque, Nancy K. Zeigler, Bernard L.Herman, Rebecca J. Sides.
Place of Publication
Newark, Del
Publisher
Center for Architecture and Engineering, University of Delaware,
Date of Publication
1990.
Physical Description
v. 93 p. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Photocopy.
Contents
The Architectural Context of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital: Setting and Current Appearance Construction Changes in the Structure Early Almshouses and Hospitals of the Lower Delaware Valley / The Social and Cultural Context of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital: English Antecedents and Early Pennsylvania Poor Relief General Functions of the Almshouse The Almshouse and the Community Occupants of the Almshouse Conclusions / Recommendations for Future Use.
Subjects
Conestoga View (Lancaster, Pa.)
Poor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Almshouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Additional Author
Bourque, Monique.
Zeigler, Nancy K.
Herman, Bernard L.
Sides, Rebecca J.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
362.5 B749
Websites
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