Programme souvenir: bi-centennial commemoration of the first settlement in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1710 : at the Mennonite "Brick" Meeting House ... Thursday, September 8th, 1910
Cover title: Programme of exercises commemorating the bi-centennial of the first settlement in Lancaster County.
"Under the auspices of the Lancaster County Historical Society."--P. [14].
Bound with Commemoration of the nativity of Robert Fulton (1915); Commemoration of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851 (1911); Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution (1912); and Founder's Memorial Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Gap, Lancaster, Pa. (1912).
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
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.
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 30.
Summary
The article focuses on a letter from Edward Shippen lll to his son, Edward Shippen lV (who would later become the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania). The letter contains advice on how to live a good and productive life both in business and family life.
Historical sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895 : together with a history of Sacred Heart Academy and St. Anthony's Parochial School, in commemoration of the silver jubilee year, 1895
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
Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families
Ceremonies at the dedication of the equestrian statue of Major-General Anthony Wayne, Commander-in-chief of the U. S. Army : Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the revolutionary camp ground at Valley Forge, June 20, 1908
History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c
By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
