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A brief history of the city of Lancaster; Containing an introduction to the settlement of the county; reminiscences of the past and present of the city; the poor house and hospital; the court house; the county jail; the water works; the railroad; the Franklin and Marshall College; the manufactories; the gas works and agricultural park; with many of the old "land marks," &c

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Author: Kilburn, Francis,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Call Number: 974.815 L244p 1870

Author: Kilburn, Francis,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol and Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Physical Description: 40 [2] p. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Includes local business cards and advertisements.; Not in Wilkinson.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Commerce.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.815 L244p 1870

A Brief history of the city of Lancaster : containing an introduction to the settlement of the county, reminiscences of the past and present of the city, the poor house and hospital, the court house, the county jail, the water works, the railroad, the Franklin and Marshall College, the manufactories, the gas works and agricultural park, with many of the old land marks, &c. ; also, the business cards of the principal merchants and manufacturers

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Date of Publication: 1870.

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Published by Francis Kilburn ; Pearsol & Geist, printers,

Date of Publication: 1870.

Physical Description: 40 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes: Bound with The Bible in Iron (1914) and Old Home Week Manheim, Pa. (1912) -- this copy is missing as of 4/11/2024. Please access using the electronic copy.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History.

Additional Author: Kilburn, Francis.

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Address delivered before the Mount Joy Car Manufacatuers : and citizens of Mount Joy on the 4th day of July 1855

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Author: Dodge, N.

Call Number: 808.85 D645

Responsibility: by Prof. N. Dodge.

Author: Dodge, N.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Edw. C. Darlington, printer.

Physical Description: 13 p. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Mount Joy Car Manufacaturing Co. (Pa.).; Fourth of July - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy; Patriotism - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 808.85 D645

Mount Joy Centennial Map A map of the Borough of Mount Joy Lancaster Co., Pa

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Date of Publication: 1951.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB 101

Responsibility: Published for the proprietor by J. D. Scott.

Place of Publication: Mount Joy, Pa

Publisher: issued by the Centennial Map Committee in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Mount Joy Borough,

Date of Publication: 1951.

Physical Description: 1 map ; 43 x 56 cm.

Notes: Includes pictures of 6 buildings. Includes landowners' names. Inset of 1858 census data.; Original version : A map of the borough of Mount Joy Township / by J. R. Hoffer. Philadelphia : J. D. Scott, 1858.

Subjects: Landowners - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy - Maps.; Real property - Pennsylvania - Mount Joy - Maps.; Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB 101

Plan of Lancaster City; a correct survey of the whole; representing all the streets, lots, roads, lanes, alleys, water courses, extension of water mains and their several calibres, plugs and stop cocks, & beautiful views of the city

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Author: Reigart, J. Franklin (John Franklin),

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 510

Author: Reigart, J. Franklin (John Franklin),

Physical Description: 1 map : photocopy ; 87 x 72 cm.

Notes: Relief shown pictorially.; A Cadastral map showing lot numbers, several calibres, plugs, stop cocks, & beautiful views of the city.; Includes text, list of city ordinances, statistical data as of Jan. 1850, and illus.; Original version ; Philadelphia : P.S. Duval's Steam Lith. Press, [1850?].; Original version : "Entered acording to the act of Congress in the year 1848, by J. Franklin Reigart, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."

Subjects: Water-supply - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Maps.; Ordinances, municipal - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Maps.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Statistics.

Additional Corporate Author: P.S. Duval & Co.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 510

Mount Joy Bicentennial Committee presents a pictorial tour of the Mount Joy area in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of Mount Joy Pennsylvania, 1851-1976

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Corporate Author: Mount Joy Bicentennial Commission.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB P611s

Corporate Author: Mount Joy Bicentennial Commission.

Place of Publication: [S.l.]

Publisher: Mount Joy Bicentennial Commission,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: 41 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Pictorial souvenir book : Mount Joy 1851-1976.

Subjects: Mount Joy (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 MOJB P611s

Short history of Lancaster Fire Department since 1882

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Author: Villee, Claude E.

Date of Publication: 1959.

volunteer fire companies. The fore- going is a brief background of Lancaster's volunteer firefighting companies prior to the establishment of the "paid" fire department. In Lancaster County Historical Society Papers,Volume 40, pages 20-36, Bertha Cochran Landis describes more fully these companies and their

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Responsibility: by Claude E. Villee.

Author: Villee, Claude E.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Physical Description: [137]-148 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 63, no. 3

Notes: Includes chronology of major fires in Lancaster City 1882-1956.

Subjects: Lancaster Fire Department (Lancaster, Pa.); Fire departments - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 63, number 3 (1959), p. 137-148Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.63