Monument erected on Clearview Road near Leaman Road for the Herman Family. This Herman Family Cemetery is situated on the 600 acre tract of Daniel Herman Swiss-German Pioneer who with his wife and two children settled here on the Pequea in 1710. Later he patented 617 acres on the Conestoga and divided the two tracts among his four sons. The original homestead on nearby Harmons Run remained in the family until 1822. This burial ground measuring 40 perches and containing an unknown number of Herman-Harmon graves was never sold. Monument erected 1981.
Boulder and bronze tablet on the grounds of the Andrew B. Rote estate on Old Philadelphia Pike near Lancaster. The boulder is at the site where on July 27, 1825 General Lafayette reviewed the local battalions of infatnry and cavalry assembled to escort him to Lancaster. Tablet erected in 1934.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Photograph of Alois Lidauer at work at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
Description
Sculptor Alois Lidauer carving a statue for the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd on Hempstead Road, Lancaster. The six ton piece of Indiana limestone was hauled into place by Richard Bertz Sr. and his team of riggers.
Photograph of Alois Lidauer at work at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
Description
Sculptor Alois Lidauer carving a statue for the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd on Hempstead Road, Lancaster. The six ton piece of Indiana limestone was hauled into place by Richard Bertz Sr. and his team of riggers.
