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Honoring the past, planning for the future : Pennsylvania's historic preservation plan, 2006-2011

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17446

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 363.69 P415

Alternate Title: Pennsylvania's historic preservation plan, 2006-2011

Responsibility: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: 54 p. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission - Appropriations and expenditures.; Historic preservation - Pennsylvania; Cultural property - Pennsylvania; Historic sites - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - Collection and preservation.

Additional Author: Wolensky, Kenneth C.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 363.69 P415

Historic Columbia architectural history tour : mansions, museums & riverlore

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16760

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 728.37 H673

Alternate Title: Historic Columbia architectural tour

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: [16] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 2 maps on 1 sheet (28 x 40 cm. folded to 28 x 22 cm.)

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Columbia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Additional Corporate Author: Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 H673

Mansions on Marietta : Historic Preservation Trust 2008 Architectural History Tour

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19268

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 728.37 M288

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Trust]

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: 29 p. : ill. 28 cm.

Notes: Housed on Tour 1109, 1120, 1042, 1022, 1020, 1604, 1608 Marietta Avenue and 508 N. School Lane.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 20th century.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 M288

Historic structures Survey and Determination of Eligibility Report : East Lampeter, Leacock, Strasburg, Paradise, Salisbury, and Sadsbury Townships, Lancaster County, Pensylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16262

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 351.8642 M312hi

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: 5 v. : ill; photos, col. maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: S.R. 0030 Section So1 Corridor Improvement Study...E.R. No. 03-8010-071.; Draft of the study.; Includes Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey (PHRS) forms.; Prepared for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation...prepared by A.D. Marble & Company...prepared with Archeaological & Historial Consultants.; Corridor of Lincoln Highway Eat.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lincoln Highway - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - East Lampeter Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Leacock Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Paradise Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Salisbury Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Sadsbury Twp.; Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Strasburg (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Leacock (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; East Lampeter (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; United States Highway 30 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 351.8642 M312hi

A guide to the library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15337

Date of Publication: 2004.

Call Number: 016.9293 N532

Responsibility: Maureen A. Taylor and Henry B. Hoff, editors.

ISBN: 0880821590 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Boston, Mass

Publisher: New England Historic Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: 2004.

Physical Description: xvi, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: New England Historic Genealogical Society.; Genealogical libraries - Massachusetts - Boston.; Genealogy

Additional Author: Taylor, Maureen Alice.; Hoff, Henry B.

Additional Corporate Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.9293 N532

Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith National Historic Landmark : Presentation of a preliminary concept plan Friday, January 5, 2001 Southern Market, Lancaster, PA based on recommendations to the Lancaster County Convention Authority, November 15, 2000

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22196

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 728.27 S946

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: 66 unnumbered pages illus. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Comprised of definitions of a national landmark and related information, biographies of Stevens and Hamilton, the conceptual plan, commentary consisting of a number of articles from local newspapers, and file of the city clerk: Council Resolution no. 23-2001.

Subjects: Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868.; Smith, Lydia Hamilton, - 1813-1884.; Historic buildings - Pennslyvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster County Convention Authority,; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 728.27 S946

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/eddb76d5-1587-464c-a322-206961869538

Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

handbooks Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County Historical markers Heating and ventilation systems Insurance policies Job descriptions Kroll Electric Company, Inc. Lancaster Lancaster Parking Authority Lancaster Trust Company Leases Letters Price lists Manuscript groups Menus Newsletters

1 document

Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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Wright's Ferry Mansion

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14999

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 974.815 COLU W953

1 website

ISBN: 0974420271 (slipcase for both v. : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Columbia, Pa

Publisher: Von Hess Foundation, in association with Antique Collectors' Club, Wappingers Falls, NY

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: 2 v. ill. 30 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: [1] The house / Elizabeth Meg Schaefer -- [2] The collection / Elizabeth Meg Schaefer ... [et al.].

Subjects: Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Wright family - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Wright's Ferry Mansion (Columbia, Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Decorative arts, Early American - Pennsylvania - Columbia.; Columbia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.; Columbia (Pa.) - Biography.; Columbia (Pa.) - History - Sources.

Additional Author: Schaefer, Elizabeth Meg.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 COLU W953

Websites

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005014160.html

Digging up details of ordinary lives : an archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11812

Author: Ruth, Phil Johnson.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 974.8011 R974

Alternate Title: Archaeological investigation of a 19th- and 20th-century residential site in Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA

Responsibility: investigation conducted by Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. (CHRS) ; sponsored and funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in consultation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Author: Ruth, Phil Johnson.

Place of Publication: North Wales, Pa

Publisher: Cultural Heritage Research Services,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 66 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Principal author: Philip Ruth ..."--t.p. verso.

Subjects: Cultural property - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Excavations (Archaeology) - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Highway planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Leaman Place (Pa.) - Antiquities.; Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Antiquities.

Additional Corporate Author: Cultural Heritage Research Services.; Pennsylvania. Dept. of Transportation.; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 974.8011 R974

Excerpts from the diary of F. X. Ziegler : A nineteenth century perspective of events in Columbia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11396

Author: Bennawit, John F., Jr.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Responsibility: by John F. Bennawit, Jr.

Author: Bennawit, John F., Jr.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: p.42-53 : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.105, no.2.

Subjects: Ziegler, F.X., - 1817-1902.; Cholera - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Columbia.; Columbia (Pa.) - History - Nineteenth century.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 105, number 2 (2003), p. 42-53Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.105, no.2

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