East Lampeter High School, 2270 Old Philadelphia Pike. Now Witmer Heights Mennonite Church and First Deaf Mennonite Church.
Provenance
Album of 35 mm slides of buildings in Lancaster County designed by architecht C. Emlen Urban. Slides taken by Carol Morgan for a lecture for the Torch Club in June 2002.
Salem Church of God, 328 West Orange Street, Lancaster. Built in 1877, congregation dissolved in 1884. Property conveyed to Covenant United Brethren Church, 1884 to 1926. Became First Pentecostal Church, Assembly of God from 1927 to 1959. Theobald School of Ballet from 1959 to 1986. Now Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster.
Weaverland Mennonite Meetinghouse. Written on back: "Weaverland Amish Church. Ulrich I's son, Peter, is buried in tiny cemetery in the middle of a nearby cornfield. Church has a metal roof, all windows hand closed shutters. Hand pump for water, open building with stalls for horses. Parking for horse and buggies. Small outdoor ladies room in parking lot. Peter Shirk was an ordained Mennonite minister in 1750. Original church was built on land purchased by Peter Shirk and Michael Witwer for this purpose (deed dated 1766). Name of cemetery - Old Mennonite Weberthal Cemetery".
Bethel Church at Route 222 and Fulton View Road. Possibly during construction of what's now Route 222 - Robert Fulton Highway. Also known as Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church and Bethel Mennonite Church.
Provenance
Photographs taken by Lancaster County during bridge repair work. Gift of Gordon Reed.
Group of eight unidentified men standing or seated on the marker indicating the First Settlement in Lancaster County. Monument erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society in 1910 at the Brick Mennonite Church, founded in 1719 near the Hans Herr House.
