FOUNDING OF THE TOWN (page 9) / LAYING OUT THE STREETS (page 16) / NAMING THE TOWN (page page 27) / NEW HOLLAND CHURCHES (page 31) / HISTORY OF THE OLD SCHOOLS (page 55) / THE NEW SCHOOL SYSTEM IN NEW HOLLAND (page 75) / POST OFFICES, POST ROADS AND STAGE COACHES (page 85) / TROLLEY CARS (page 90) / FIRST TELEPHONES (page 91) / INCORPORATION OF BOROUGH (page 95)/ OLD PUMPS (page 97) / WATER COMPANY (page 99) / FIRE COMPANY (page 100) / ELECTRIC LIGHTS (page 102 ) / NEWSPAPERS (page 106) / INDUSTRIES (page 115) / PROMINENT MEN BEFORE 1860 (page 130) / CONESTOGA WAGONS (page 142) / GROUND RENTS (page 144) / CEMETERIES (page 149) / OLD HOTELS (page 155) / SLAVERY IN EARL (page 156) / LIVESTOCK TRADE (page 159) / BANKS (page 161) / MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF MEN OF NEW HOLLAND AND VICINITY (page 164).
Summary
This book is full of facts about the history of New Holland, PA. There is no table of contents or index, but the topics are clearly marked as the reader progresses through the book.
The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor, William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742 : with an introduction, respecting, the life of W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers : with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general states, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770 : the whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. : with an appendix
Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ...,
Date of Publication
1797-1798.
Physical Description
2 v. : 1 map, 1 port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Library has: vol. 1.
Full leather binding with red spine label stamped in gold.
Bookplate of Redmond Conygnham, No. 2435.
Evans
Contents
I. Introduction. The history of Pennsylvania, 1676-1709.--II. The history of Pennsylvania, 1709-1763. A view of the province of Pennsylvania ... between the years 1760 and 1770. Extract from two short Latin poems ... by Thomas Makin. Appendix.
