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Lower Susquehanna heritage area feasibility study

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6619

Date of Publication: 1999.

Call Number: 338.9 L913

Responsibility: prepared by: JMA/Watson Urban Research and Development Corporation ; Davidson, Peterson and Associates ; Shelley Mastran.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: JMA/Watson,

Date of Publication: 1999.

Physical Description: [180] p. in various pagings : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Summary: An analysis of the potential of developing a designated Pennsylvania Heritage region in the lower Susquehanna region of York and Lancaster counties.

Subjects: Heritage tourism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historical sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Heritage tourism - Pennsylvania - York County.; Historical sites - Pennsylvania - York County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Susquehanna River Valley - History.

Additional Corporate Author: JMA/Watson Urban Research and Development Corporation.; Lancaster County (Pa.) Board of Commissioners.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 338.9 L913

Lancaster's heritage: An historical preservation study for Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5285

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Date of Publication: 1972.

Call Number: 720.9 L244

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Corporate Author: Lancaster County Planning Commission.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1972.

Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill., folded map ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes detailed inventory of sites and structures.; This report presents the case for the preservation of the architectural and environmental aspects of this heritage in a balanced, planned relationship with continued contemporary development. Information is offered concerning the County's resources, the dangers to historic areas, and the possibilities for action. While individual County landmarks do deserve additional attention, the primary emphasis within this report is on the overall character of Lancaster's environmental heritage and the need for its preservation. The natural beauty of our rural areas and the pervasive historic character of many of our older communities are among Lancaster County's basic assets.; This study was updated in 1985 by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County. The update's title is "Our present past: An update of Lancaster's Heritage" and can be found in our collection. The author of the update is "Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County".; Bibliography: p. 9-1]-9-2.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 720.9 L244

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Churches of today and yesterday in southern Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2607

Date of Publication: 1968]

Call Number: 200 D921

Responsibility: Raymond L. Dunlap, editor, assisted by George E. Herbert [and] Richard G. Yates, Sr.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster? Pa

Publisher: Fellowship of Solanco Churches

Date of Publication: 1968]

Physical Description: xvii, 204 p. illus., port. 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 192.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Church buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Baptist Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Brethren Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Church of God - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lutheran Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Mennonite Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; United Methodist Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Presbyterian Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Roman Catholic Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Episcopal Church - Pennyslvania - Lancaster County; African Methodist Episcopal Church - Lancaster County; Independent Churches - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Dunlap, Raymond L.,; Herbert, George E.,; Yates, Richard G.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 200 D921

Report of the committee having in charge the marking of the site of the Postlethwaite Tavern where the first Courts of Justice in Lancaster County were held

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4567

Date of Publication: 1915

on behalf of the Lancaster County Historical Society present to this community and to this county the handsome monu- ment here erected to commemorate the momentous event that happened here one hundred and eighty-six years ago. This boulder, hewn from the rocks upon which these hills and slopes have

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1915

Physical Description: 219-301 : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 8

Subjects: Postlethwaite, John.; Postlethwaite Tavern (Conestoga Township, Pa.); Courts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Speeches, addresses, etc., American.; Courthouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Dedication services.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 19, number 8 (1915), p. 219-301Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.19

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Runaways, rascals, and rogues : missing spouses, servants, and slaves ; abstracts from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, newspapers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17436

Date of Publication: c1987-

Call Number: 911.2 H389

Responsibility: edited by Gary T. Hawbaker.

Place of Publication: Hershey, Pa. (P.O. Box 207, Hershey 17033)

Publisher: G.T. Hawbaker,

Date of Publication: c1987-

Physical Description: v. <1 > : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents: v. 1. Lancaster journal, 1794-1810.

Subjects: Runaway husbands - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Runaway wives - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Indentured servants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Abstracts.; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Hawbaker, Gary T.

Additional Title: Lancaster County journal.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 911.2 H389

The best poor man's country; a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2183

Author: Lemon, James T.

Date of Publication: [1972]

Call Number: 974.800912 L556

Responsibility: [by] James T. Lemon.

ISBN: 0801811899

Author: Lemon, James T.

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press

Date of Publication: [1972]

Physical Description: xviii, 295 p. maps. 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Land use - Pennsylvania.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Dauphin County (Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania - Social conditions.; Pennsylvania - Economic conditions.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.800912 L556

Lancaster county Indians; annals of the Susquehannocks and other Indian tribes of the Susquehanna territory from about the year 1500 to 1763, the date of their extinction. An exhaustive and interesting series of historical papers descriptive of Lancaster county's Indians prior to and during the advent of the paleface

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5154

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Date of Publication: 1908.

Call Number: 974.8011 E75

Responsibility: by H. Frank Eshleman.

Author: Eshleman, Henry Frank,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Date of Publication: 1908.

Physical Description: 2 p. Î²., [3]-415 p. 23 cm.

Notes: LCHS copy inscribed by author.

Subjects: Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Susquehanna Indians.; Conestoga Indians.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Antiquities; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8011 E75

The ironmasters of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : including Henry Steigel, Robert Coleman, the Grubb dynasty, Henry Haldeman, Henry Watts, and many others

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19835

Author: Martin, Richard E.

Call Number: 672 M382

Responsibility: by Richard E. Martin.

ISBN: 9780615967578; 0615967574

Author: Martin, Richard E.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]; Morgantown, PA

Publisher: Richard E. Martin,; Printed by Masthof Press

Physical Description: vi, 193 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm

Notes: "Over 120 illustrations."; Includes bibliographical references (171-172) and index.

Contents: Labor on the plantation -- Charcoal making -- Furnaces operation -- Refining the iron -- Lancaster furnaces -- Rolling mills -- Ironworks sequence -- The ironmasters -- Ore mines -- Preserved iron furnaces -- Paths and trails -- Fords and ferries.

Subjects: Stiegel, Henry William, - 1729-1785.; Coleman, Robert, - 1748-1825.; Coleman family.; Grubb family.; Haldeman, Henry B.; Haldeman family.; Watts, Henry.; Jacobs family.; Potts family.; Taylor family.; Watts family.; Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Charcoal industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Iron and steel workers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Biography.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 672 M382

Landis Homes Retirement Community 50th celebration, 1964-2014 : ten early sites by Oregon PA, their neighbors and friends

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19787

Call Number: 363.5946 L257

Alternate Title: 50th celebration, 1964-2014 : ten early sites by Oregon PA, their neighbors and friends; Fiftieth celebration, 1964-2014 : ten early sites by Oregon PA, their neighbors and friends; Ten early sites by Oregon PA, their neighbors and friends

Place of Publication: Lititz, PA; Elm, Pennsylvania

Publisher: Landis Homes,; Executive Printing Co., Inc.

Physical Description: 44 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm

Notes: Introduction signed: Joanne Hess Siegrist.; A tour book covering ten sites in the area around Landis Homes.; Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Landis Homes Retirement Community (Lititz, Pa.) - Anniversaries, etc.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Oregon (Pa. : Township) - History.; Oregon (Pa. : Township) - Description and travel.

Additional Author: Siegrist, Joanne Hess.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 363.5946 L257

The Steinmans of Lancaster : a family and its enterprises

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6424

Author: Brubaker, John H.

Date of Publication: c1984.

Call Number: 929 S823b

Responsibility: John H. Brubaker, III.

ISBN: 0961378204

Author: Brubaker, John H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Steinman Enterprises,

Date of Publication: c1984.

Physical Description: xv, 219 p. : ill. (some col.), geneal. table ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; This is the family history of prominent civic leaders and industrial promoters of Lancaster. Steinman Enterprises in Lancaster have included hardware merchandising, cotton and iron manufacture, newspaper and commercial printing, radio, television and cable television.; Bibliography: p. 209-211.

Subjects: Steinman family.; Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.; Publishers and publishing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Businesspeople - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 S823b

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