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The road to Paradise; the story of the rebirth of the Strasburg Rail Road

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Author: Moedinger, William M.

Date of Publication: [1971]

Call Number: 385 M693

Responsibility: by William M. Moedinger.

Author: Moedinger, William M.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Date of Publication: [1971]

Physical Description: 39 p. illus., map, ports. 28 cm.

Subjects: Strasburg Railroad.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 385 M693

Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

a Motor Vehicle. Photograph of an automobile at an unidentified toll gate. 1930. Folder 2 Railroads, Disbursements Payments from Bank of Pennsylvania, apparently for prominent people associated with railroad development in Lancaster County. 1835. Folder 3 Railroads, Columbia-related Railroads and

1 document

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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The history and topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties; containing a brief history of the first settlers, notices of the leading events, incidents and interesting facts, both general and local, in the history of these counties, general & statistical descriptions of all the principal boroughs, towns, villages, &c. with an appendix, embellished with several engravingsj compiled from numerous authentic sources by I. Daniel Rupp

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Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Date of Publication: 1846.; 1975]

Call Number: 974.84 R946

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Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa. [Carlisle, Pa

Publisher: Gilbert Hills, Cumberland Historical Society

Date of Publication: 1846.; 1975]

Physical Description: xii, 723 p.; illus; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index by John Cecil Fralish, Jr.; p. 609-723.; Another edition, pub. the same year, includes the history of Somerset, Cambria and Indiana counties.

Subjects: Dauphin Co., Pa. - History.; Cumberland County, Pa. - History.; Franklin County, Pa. - History.; Bedford Co., Pa. - History.; Adams Co., Pa. - History.; Perry Co., Pa. - History.

Additional Author: Fralish, John Cecil.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.84 R946

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7zk5mr2f&view=1up&seq=9

The logging railroad era of lumbering in Pennsylvania : a history of the lumber, chemical wood, and tanning companies which used railroads in Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1970-1978]

Call Number: 674 L832

Place of Publication: [Williamsport, Pa

Publisher: Lycoming printing,

Date of Publication: 1970-1978]

Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents: Contents: The logging railroad era of lumbering in Pennsylvania by Walter Casler, Benjamin F. G Kline, jr., and Thomas T. Taber III--Book 1: Pitch pine and prop timber, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Book 2: "Wild catting" on the mountain, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Book 3: Ghost lumber towns of central Pennsylvania, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 4: Sunset along Susquehanna waters, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 5: The Goodyears, an empire in the hemlocks, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 6: Whining saws and squealing flanges, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 7: Sawmills among the derricks, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 8: Tionesta Valley, by Walter C. Casler.--Book 9: Teddy Collins empire, by Walter C. Casler.--Book 10: Tanbark, alcohol, and lumber, by Thomas T. Taber III.--Book 11: Allegheny Valley logging railroads, by Walter C. Casler.--Book 12: Dinkies, dams and sawdust, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Book 13: "Stemwinders" in the laurel highlands, by Benjamin F.G. Kline, jr.--Index: Addenda and index, Additions and corrections, by Walter Casler, Benjamin F. G. Kline, jr, and Thomas T Tabor III.

Subjects: Collins, Truman D.; Whitmer-Steele Company.; Goodyear Lumber Company.; Logging railroads - Pennsylvania; Lumbering - Pennsylvania; Railroads - Pennsylvania; Kane (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Casler, Walter.; Kline, Benjamin F. G.; Taber, Thomas Townsend.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 674 L832

A biographical history of Lancaster County: being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county; as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character

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Author: Harris, Alexander,

Date of Publication: 1974.

Call Number: 920 H313 1977

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ISBN: 0806305908; 9780806305905

Author: Harris, Alexander,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1974.

Physical Description: 638 p. 23 cm.

Notes: Reprint of the 1872 ed. published by E. Barr, Lancaster, Pa.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 920 H313 1977

Websites

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t04x6h324;view=1up;seq=7

Early History of the Church of the Brethren (German Baptist Brethren) in America, 1729-1890

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Author: Bomberger, Christian.

Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 286.5 B844e

Responsibility: revised and edited by Isaac Wayne Keller.

Author: Bomberger, Christian.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: 26 leaves, 28 cm.

Notes: "Among the books and papers which have passed from generation to generation in the Keller family is a small leather-bound, hand-written booklet. The firsrt entry states: "Copy of memorandum of the Brethren's Church kept by Christian Bomberger, Rothsville." The copy was made by Lizzie W. Keller, Springville.; Translation of the German notes by Frielinde Kratz Ebersole.; Not indexed.