Roll of Honor, Dillerville School, 1904 - 1905. W. Eugene Evans, teacher. Students listed: Mabel Baum, Enos Bowman, Pearl Bowman, Elizabeth Brackbill, George Brackbill, Mary Brackbill, John Copeland, Mary Ferguson, Anna Heagy, Mary Haas, Anna Kiehl, Benjamin Kiehl, Walter Kiehl, Chester Lanious, Edgar Lanious, Mary Lanious, Ross Lanious, Gertrude R. Leachey, Anna Marie Leed, Clair Leed, Jacob Leed, Kathryn P. Leed, Bessie Lowery, Hannah Rodman, John Sheaffer, Mary Sheaffer, Susan Sheaffer, Earl Stauffer, Maud Stauffer, John Westman, Harry Westman, Alice Welsh, Anna Welsh, Edna Wissler, Elizabeth Wissler, Jacob Wissler, and Mary Wissler. Real photo postcard.
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.
Cloister Country Store, Ephrata. Adjoining historic Ephrata Cloister. Having fun at t Cloister country Store - this Illinois family finds a family shot in the Gruber farm wagon a lasting memento of their Pennsylvania Cutch Country vacation. Patterned after a Pennsylvania Dutch barn, this early American Country Store feateures native handcrafted products. Pennsylvania Dutch food, hex signs, coins, stamps and antiques.
