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The journal of Joshua Gilpin, 1809 : pleasure and business in western Pennsylvania

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Author: Gilpin, Joshua

Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 974.80313 G489

Responsibility: Joseph E. Walker, editor.

Author: Gilpin, Joshua

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: vii, 156 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 153-56.

Summary: Joshua Gilpin (1765-1840) and his brother Thomas had a business in Philadelphia as general merchants, and on the Brandywine Creek as manufacturers of paper, and woolen and cotton textiles. He travelled quite a bit in Europe at the end of the 18th century seeking to learn about industrial practices. In 1809 Joshua Gilpin combined a famly vacation with a business survey of the Redstone area (the vicinity of Brownsville), Pittsburgh, and Indiana County. He described the country through which he drove from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and return. He discussed land values and business prospects with innkeepers, businessmen, and legal experts all along the way; noted the presence of natural resources; and spent some time in Pittsburgh in conferences with men who were able to supply him with the ind of information he desired.His route west took him through Lancaster. His return trip east took him through Harrisburg, Lebanon, and Reading.Contents :1. From Philadelphia to the Redstone/ 2. In the Redstone Country/ 3. Pittsburg Business prospects/ 4. Pittsburgh to Bedford via Indiana County/ 5. Bedford to Philadelphia

Subjects: Gilpin, Joshua; Pennsylvania - Description and travel - Personal narratives.; Pittsburgh (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Washington County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Indiana County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80313 G489

Lancaster County waysides

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Author: Kendig, John D.

Date of Publication: c1979.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO K33L

Responsibility: by John D. Kendig.

Author: Kendig, John D.

Place of Publication: [Manheim, Pa.]

Publisher: Kendig,

Date of Publication: c1979.

Physical Description: vi, 170 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Kendig, John D.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History, Local.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO K33L

Journal of a tour to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1828; (a trip across Pennsylvania)

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Author: Henderson, James Patterson,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Call Number: 917.48 H496

Responsibility: Edited by Raymond Martin Bell.

Author: Henderson, James Patterson,

Place of Publication: Washington, Pa

Publisher: Washington and Jefferson College,

Date of Publication: 1973.

Physical Description: viii, 94 l. 29 cm.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 917.48 H496

Journey through Pennsylvania, 1835, by canal, rail, and stage coach

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Author: Nicklin, Philip Houlbrooke,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Call Number: 380.5 N632

Responsibility: as written by Peregrine Prolix (Philip Nicklin) ; with introd. by William H. Shank.

Author: Nicklin, Philip Houlbrooke,

Uniform Title: Pleasant peregrination through the prettier parts of Pennsylvania

Place of Publication: York, Pa

Publisher: American Canal and Transportation Center,

Date of Publication: 1975.

Physical Description: 92 p. : ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.

Notes: Reprint, with new ill., of the 1836 ed. published by Grigg and Elliot, Philadelphia, under title: A pleasant peregrination through the prettier parts of Pennsylvania.

Summary: "Nicklin writes with great perception and humor of his experiences while traveling across Pennsylvania in 1835 by canal, stage coach, inclined plane and railroad. His interesting and detailed descriptions of these conveyances and the anecdotes he relates in this connection with such relish, make his twelve letters, which we publish here in their entirety, a classic of American non-fiction." [introduction]

Subjects: Nicklin, Philip Houlbrooke, - 1786-1842.; Canals - Pennsylvania.; Railroads - Pennsylvania.; Coaching - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel - 1835.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Description and travel - 19th century.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 380.5 N632

History trails of Lancaster

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Author: Steinmetz, Rollin C.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 917.4815 S823

Responsibility: edited by Rollin C. Steinmetz , artwork by Dan F. Barthold.

Author: Steinmetz, Rollin C.

Place of Publication: Lititz, Pa

Publisher: History Trails, a division of Entertain, Inc. ,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: 63 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.

Contents: Contents--Ellicott House--Fulton Opera House--Penn Square Area--Trinity Lutheran Church--St. Mary's Church--St. James' Church--Rock Ford--Wheatland--North Museum--Lancaster County Historical Society--Ephrata Cloister--Ephrata Museum--Mueller House--Brickerville House--Pretzel House--General Sutter Hotel--Gay Nineties Museum--Pennsylvania Farm Museum--Folk Craft Museum--Covered Bridges--Donegal Church--Cameron Estate--Donegal Mills Plantation--Columbia Market & Dungeon--A. Bube's Brewery & Catacolmbs--Covered Bridges--White Chimneys--Eagle America Museum--Hans Herr House--Rough & Tumble Museum--National Wax Museum--State Railroad Museum--Mill Bridge Museum--Old Library, Millersville--Fulton Birthplace--Covered Bridges.

Subjects: Lancaster County, Pa. - History.; Lancaster County, Pa. - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 917.4815 S823

Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

a $500 mortgage bond, a blank stock certificate, and a requisition for high- tension lines. [18__]-1912. Folder 8 Conestoga Traction Co. Booklet of early histories, “Lancaster Co., Pa.,” which describes the company’s history, its routes, and sights along the way. 1 August 1908. Booklet by H. W

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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100 years of camera scenes: views of eastern Lancaster county in our nation's second century. A bicentennial project of the eastern Lancaster county chapter of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee, inc

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Corporate Author: Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee. Eastern Lancaster County Chapter. Historic Research Committee.

Date of Publication: 1978]

Call Number: 974.815 LACO E13

Corporate Author: Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee. Eastern Lancaster County Chapter. Historic Research Committee.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.?

Publisher: George Roland ;

Date of Publication: 1978]

Physical Description: X, 192 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.; Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; East Earl (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; West Earl (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; Earl (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.; New Holland (Pa.) - Pictorial works.; Terre Hill (Pa.) - Pictorial works.; Brecknock (Pa. : Township) - Pictorial works.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO E13

Print, Photographic

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Collection: General Collection

Object ID: 2-21-02-58

Date Range: February 24, 1971

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Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: General Collection

Description: Sign for the Red Caboose Lodge in Strasburg

Provenance: Donated by Deanna M. Nolder.; Loose pages from photo album belonging to donor's late grandfather, G.Ross Bond of York, PA.

Date Range: February 24, 1971

Creator: Bond, George Ross

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Strasburg; Railroads; Red Caboose Lodge

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 4 x 5 inches

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2-21-02-58

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Annals of a good life, 1885-1972, David R. Long

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Author: Long, David R.,

Date of Publication: [1972]

Call Number: 974.815 LACI L848

Author: Long, David R.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Metzger Publicity Service,

Date of Publication: [1972]

Physical Description: 3 p.Î²., 206 p. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Armstrong Cork Company (Lancaster, PA).; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACI L848

The history and topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties; containing a brief history of the first settlers, notices of the leading events, incidents and interesting facts, both general and local, in the history of these counties, general & statistical descriptions of all the principal boroughs, towns, villages, &c. with an appendix, embellished with several engravingsj compiled from numerous authentic sources by I. Daniel Rupp

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Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Date of Publication: 1846.; 1975]

Call Number: 974.84 R946

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Author: Rupp, I. Daniel

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa. [Carlisle, Pa

Publisher: Gilbert Hills, Cumberland Historical Society

Date of Publication: 1846.; 1975]

Physical Description: xii, 723 p.; illus; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index by John Cecil Fralish, Jr.; p. 609-723.; Another edition, pub. the same year, includes the history of Somerset, Cambria and Indiana counties.

Subjects: Dauphin Co., Pa. - History.; Cumberland County, Pa. - History.; Franklin County, Pa. - History.; Bedford Co., Pa. - History.; Adams Co., Pa. - History.; Perry Co., Pa. - History.

Additional Author: Fralish, John Cecil.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.84 R946

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