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Collection
Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver
Title
Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver
Object ID
MG0587
Date Range
1960s-1970s
Content Note: This collection of Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver contains index cards prepared by Mr. Weaver with information about bridges over several creeks in Lancaster County. The waterways include the Beaver, Calamus, Big Chiques, Little Chiques, Cocalico, Conestoga, Little Conestoga
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Collection
Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver
Title
Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver
Description
This collection of Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver contains index cards prepared by Mr. Weaver with information about bridges over several creeks in Lancaster County. The waterways include the Beaver, Calamus, Big Chiques, Little Chiques, Cocalico, Conestoga, Little Conestoga, Conewago, Conowingo, Coon, Conoy, Hammer, Mill, Muddy, East Octoraro, West Octoraro, Pequea and Peters. Information includes the name, township(s), and type of each bridge, and may also include the date of construction, contractors, commissioners, size and weight limit, details on location and/or destruction or replacement of the bridge.
Admin/Biographical History
Mr. Weaver photographed these bridges in the 1960s and 1970s.
Date Range
1960s-1970s
Date of Accumulation
1960s-1970s
Creator
Weaver, Benjamin
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 12
People
Weaver, Benjamin
Subjects
Bridges
Search Terms
Beaver Creek
Big Chickies Creek
Big Chiques Creek
Conestoga River
Bridges
Calamus Run
Cocalico Creek
Conewago Creek
Conowingo Creek
Conoy Creek
Coon Creek
East Octoraro Creek
Finding aids
Hammer Creek
Little Chiques Creek
Little Chickies Creek
Little Conestoga Creek
Manuscript groups
Mill Creek
Muddy Creek
Pequea Creek
Peters Creek
West Octoraro Creek
Extent
1 box, 3 folders
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0587
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Mr. Weaver photographed these bridges in the 1960s and 1970s; the slides are in the Photograph Collection.
Some of these cards correspond with the Bridge Records in the Lancaster County Government Records.
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver (MG0587), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
2010.MG0587
Other Numbers
MG-587
Classification
MG0587
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Processed and finding aid prepared by HT, 10 September 2010. Added to database 26 December 2021.
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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Object ID
MG0123
Date Range
1819-1977
Booklets Brochures Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County Center Square Road Station Chestnut Street Christiana Coatesville, Chester County Columbia �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy
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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Description
The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.
Date Range
1819-1977
Year Range From
1819
Year Range To
1977
Date of Accumulation
1819-1977
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 04
People
Bitner, John R.
Boardman, Harris
Bowman, John Jacob
Boyer, Zaccur Prall
Cirt, Anna N.
Griest, William Walton
Hostetter, Albert Keller
Kemrer, Clarence M.
Knapp, Walter
Kreider, Kate
Kriebel, Howard Wiegner
McClellan, Oliver Eldridge
Royer, David
Shuman, James P.
Wohlsen, Anna
Wohlsen, Peter
Subjects
Letters
Minutes (Records)
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.)
Posters
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading & Columbia Railroad Company
Street-railroads
Trolley cars
Search Terms
Adamstown
Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
Blueprints
Booklets
Brochures
Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Center Square Road Station
Chestnut Street
Christiana
Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Columbia
Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad
Conestoga Traction Company
Conestoga Transportation Company
Conewago Water and Power Company
Correspondence
Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania
Drawings
Duke Street
East Belt line
East King Street
East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.
Elizabethtown
Engleside, Lancaster Twp.
Ephemera
Ephrata
Express Printing Company
Greeting cards
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania
Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.
J. G. Brill Company
Kinport Road
Lancaster
Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway
Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company
Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company
Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike
Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Letters
Lititz
Maple Grove
Maps
Marietta Avenue
North Market Street
Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.
Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.
Minutes
Mount Joy
Mulberry Street
National Railway Historical Society
Neffsville, Manheim Twp.
North End Photo Finishing House
North Lime Street
North Queen Street
Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Penn Square
Pequea Twp.
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photographs
Placards
Substations
President Avenue
Princess Street
Prospect Street
Quarryville
Railroads
Rates and tolls
Reading and Columbia Railroad Company
Receipts
Red Rose Transit Authority
Reports
Roads
Rocky Springs Railroad Company
Schuylkill Navigation Company
Scrapbooks
South Mountain Railroad
South Queen Street
Stock certificates
Susquehanna Railroad
Tickets
Tolls
Trolley car barns
Trolley car yards
Trolley cars
Trolleys
Turnpikes
Walnut Street
WGAL (television station)
Williams Park Station
Willow Street Turnpike
Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania
WLAN (radio station)
Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania
York Bus Company
York Fair
York Railway Company
Extent
2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0123
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Restrictions are noted at the item level.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-123
Classification
MG0123
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 23 September 2021.
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Little Britain Presbyterian Church

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo368
Author
Stubbs, Charles H.
Date of Publication
1978
Congregation of Middle Octoraro (Bart), and Little Britain, informed the Presbytery on the fifteenth of October, 1760, of a plan to unite and support the Gospel. On the twenty-first day of April, of the year following, "Commissioners reported these Congregations united in agreeing to divide the labors and
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Responsibility
by Dr. Charles H. Stubbs.
Author
Stubbs, Charles H.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1978
Physical Description
[165]-168 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 82, no. 3
Subjects
Little Britain Presbyterian Church (Fulton Twp., Pa.)
Presbyterian Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 82, number 3 (1978), p. 165-168Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.82
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The story of London Grove Meeting

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5954
Author
Walton, Helen S.,
Date of Publication
1976?]
Call Number
974.813 L847
Author
Walton, Helen S.,
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1976?]
Physical Description
10 p. ; 18 cm.
Subjects
London Grove Meeting (Chester County, Pa.)
Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Quakers - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Additional Corporate Author
London Grove Meeting (Chester County, Pa.).
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 L847
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Little Britain Township 1754-1846 [Tax Records]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20773
Author
Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau
Date of Publication
1977
Call Number
Drawer 6, sec. 3: #19
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Alternate Title
Little Britain twp. tax lists
Little Britain taxes
Author
Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Date of Publication
1977
Physical Description
Microfilm.
Series
Lancaster County Pa. Tax Records, 1748-1855.
Notes
"The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1754, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-77, 1779-83, 1785-89, 1791-93, 1797-1803, 1805-25, 1827, 1831, 1835, 1837-46, Undated. The later records (dating from 1827 and after) appear to have sustained water damage. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
Subjects
Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Little Britain (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 6, sec. 3: #19
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Records of the courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania [1697-1710]: v.2

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1085
Corporate Author
Chester County (Pa.). Courts.
Date of Publication
1972.
Call Number
974.813 L316
Responsibility
Transcribed by Miss Dorothy Lapp under the auspices of the Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Corporate Author
Chester County (Pa.). Courts.
Place of Publication
Danboro, Pa
Publisher
Richard T. & Mildred C. Williams,
Date of Publication
1972.
Physical Description
211, 43 p. 29 cm.
Notes
"Volume 1 was published in 1910 by The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania."
Includes records of the Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions and General Court.
Subjects
Court Records - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Chester County (Pa.) - History - Sources.
Chester County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Additional Author
Lapp, Dorothy B.
Additional Corporate Author
Chester County Historical Society (West Chester, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 L316
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Collection
Covered Bridge Album
Object ID
A-12-01-01
Date Range
1970
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Covered Bridge Album
Description
Covered bridge southwest of Andersonburg, Jackson Township, Perry County.
Date Range
1970
Creator
Krone, Herbert Brickley
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Bridges
Covered bridges
Sherman Creek
Perry County, Pennsylvania
Place
Jackson Twp., Perry County, Pennsylvania
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
8 x 10 inches
Object ID
A-12-01-01
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Chester County clocks and their makers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5873
Author
James, Arthur Edwin,
Edition
2d, enl. and rev. ed.
Date of Publication
c1976.
Call Number
974.813 J28
Responsibility
by Arthur E. James.
ISBN
0916838048
Author
James, Arthur Edwin,
Edition
2d, enl. and rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Exton, Pa
Publisher
Schiffer Pub.,
Date of Publication
c1976.
Physical Description
222 p. : ill., map (on lining papers) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 217-219.
Subjects
Clock and watch making - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Clock and watch makers - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 J28
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U.S. Census, 1850, Chester County, townships of Charlestown, East Bradford, East Coventry, East Caln

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6405
Date of Publication
1970.
Call Number
974.813 F534
Responsibility
copied by Mrs. Earl Jacobs and Miss Josephine Wilson.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
1970.
Physical Description
various paging ; 28 cm.
Subjects
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Chester County (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Pennsylvania - Census, 1850 - Indexes.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.813 F534
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The best poor man's country; a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2183
Author
Lemon, James T.
Date of Publication
[1972]
Call Number
974.800912 L556
Responsibility
[by] James T. Lemon.
ISBN
0801811899
Author
Lemon, James T.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Johns Hopkins Press
Date of Publication
[1972]
Physical Description
xviii, 295 p. maps. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Land use - Pennsylvania.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Chester County (Pa.) - History.
Dauphin County (Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania - Social conditions.
Pennsylvania - Economic conditions.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.800912 L556
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