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Intercourse, Leacock, Paradise, and Salisbury

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15371

Author: Paiva, Michele M.

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO P149

Responsibility: Michele M. Paiva.

ISBN: 073853837X

Author: Paiva, Michele M.

Place of Publication: Charleston, SC

Publisher: Arcadia Pub.,

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: 128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Images of America.

Notes: Many photographs.

Contents: Chapters: People and cultures -- Community -- Education -- Transportation -- Transportation at work -- Business and industry.

Summary: Archival photographs are used to tell the story of these Lancaster County communities - the people and their culture, community, education, transportation, business, and industry.

Subjects: Leacock (Pa. : Township); Intercourse (Pa.) - History - Pictorial works.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Paradise, Pa. - History.; Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO P149

Lancaster County : vignettes of people and places

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9458

Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO S416

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Science Press,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: xi, 96 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 x 27 cm.

Series: Science Press keepsake;

Notes: Christmas keepsake of Science Press, 1975.; Click on Table of Contens for more information.

Contents: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania--Declaration of Independence--Lancaster's Liberty Bell--Pennsylvania's Militia Meets in Lancaster--George Ross Signs the Declaration--Edward Hand...The Doctor becomes a General--Witness Tree at Donegal--A Monastic Community in Ephrata--Moravians at Lititz--Iron Industry of Lancaster County--Baron Stiegel of Manheim--Grist Mills of Lancaster County--Franklin College.

Subjects: Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Science Press.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO S416

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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Lancaster County's present Court House : a history of its construction 1852-1855

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo609

Author: Kramer, Fay Follet.

Date of Publication: 1967

in Pennsylvania, known as Lancaster County, has developed into the "Garden Spot of Amer- ica."' Lancastrians, whether native or adopted, pride themselves on a past steeped on heroic actions and of their forefathers' participa- tion and contributions in the shaping and guiding of not only their county

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Responsibility: by Fay Follet Kramer.

Author: Kramer, Fay Follet.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1967

Physical Description: [1]-62 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 71, no. 1

Subjects: Lancaster County Courthouse (Pa.) - History.; Courthouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 71, number 1 (1967), p. 1-62Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.71

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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

The ground swallowed them up : slavery and the underground railroad in York County, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20585

Author: Mingus, Scott L.

Date of Publication: 2016.; Â©2016

Call Number: 973.7115 M664

Responsibility: Scott Mingus.

ISBN: 9780979291555; 0979291550

Author: Mingus, Scott L.

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: York County History Center,

Date of Publication: 2016.; Â©2016

Physical Description: x, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction / Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Foreword / June Burk Lloyd -- Slavery in Pennsylvania and the early abolitionist movement -- The early growth of the Underground Railroad -- Prigg v. Pennsylvania -- An open pathway for fugitives -- From discord toward dissolution -- The bloody road to emancipation -- Afterword / James McClure -- Appendix A : Reported Underground Railroad conductors in York County -- Appendix B : The slaveholder's prayer.

Subjects: Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Historic sites - Pennsylvania.; African Americans.; Fugitive slaves.; Historic sites.; Underground Railroad.; York County (Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - York County.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 M664

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

Date of Publication: [2014]; Â©2014

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.

Date of Publication: [2014]; Â©2014

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

History of Crosswinds, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, before it was a residential development, 1727-1969

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16954

Author: Reeser, Robert L.,

Date of Publication: c2009.

Call Number: 929 B959r

Alternate Title: History of a Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania farm and the families who lived there

Responsibility: Robert L. Reeser.

ISBN: 9781463551100; 146355110X

Author: Reeser, Robert L.,

Place of Publication: Strasburg, Pa

Publisher: Reeser Research,

Date of Publication: c2009.

Physical Description: 53 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 26 cm.

Notes: "Project one."; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Burkholder family.; Nolt family.; Oberholtzer family.; Stauffer family.; Mohn family.; Family farms - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 B959r

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

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

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