Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Monument erected on Clearview Road near Leaman Road for the Herman Family. This Herman Family Cemetery is situated on the 600 acre tract of Daniel Herman Swiss-German Pioneer who with his wife and two children settled here on the Pequea in 1710. Later he patented 617 acres on the Conestoga and divided the two tracts among his four sons. The original homestead on nearby Harmons Run remained in the family until 1822. This burial ground measuring 40 perches and containing an unknown number of Herman-Harmon graves was never sold. Monument erected 1981.
Reprint of a photograph of four people, identified as Harriet Lane Johnston, Henry Elliot Johnston, Maria Lois Buchanan Cassatt and Alexander Johnston Cassatt, c. 1860s.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
