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Faith and works at Middle Octorara since 1727 : a history of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, R.D. 3, Quarryville, Pa. Edited by Sanders P. McComsey

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Author: McElwain, Madison E.

Date of Publication: 1956]

Call Number: 285.1 M627 index

Alternate Title: Middle Octorara presbyterian cemeteries old and new, United Presbyterian 1717, taken from Faith and Works by Madison E. McElwain, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Penna.

Author: McElwain, Madison E.

Place of Publication: [Manheim? Pa

Date of Publication: 1956]

Physical Description: 582 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Library has a photocopy of the cemetery abstract (p. 451-581) with index added locally,and an updated abstract incorporating new graves (no date).

Subjects: Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church (Quarryville, Pa.); Presbyterian Church - Pennsylvania.; Registers of birth, etc., Lancaster County, Pa.; Bart (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.1 M627 index

Records of pastoral acts at Emanuel Lutheran Church, known in the eighteenth century as the Warwick congregation, near Brickerville, Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799

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Date of Publication: 1983.

Call Number: 284.1 E53a

ISBN: 0911122478 (pbk.)

Place of Publication: Breinigsville, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania German Society,

Date of Publication: 1983.

Physical Description: vii, 229 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Sources and documents of the Pennsylvania Germans ; 8

Notes: "Translated by Frederick S. Weiser."--Cover.; Includes index.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 160 #2.

Subjects: Emanuel Lutheran Church (Elizabeth, Lancaster County, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Church registers and records - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township)

Additional Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 284.1 E53a

Tax Lists: West Hempfield Twp., West Lampeter Twp

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Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Date of Publication: 1985

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 5: #47

Alternate Title: West Lampeter Township tax records; West Hempfield Township taxes

Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Date of Publication: 1985

Physical Description: Microfilm.

Series: Lancaster County Pa. Tax Records, 1748-1855

Notes: West Hempfield Twp 1823-26, 1829-31, 1833-38, 1840-46. Includes Columbia.; West Lampeter Twp 1842-46.

Subjects: Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; West Hempfield (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; West Lampeter (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 5: #47

Conestoga United Methodist Church Conestoga, Lancaster County, Pa. formerly Conestoga Methodist Episcopal Church records for Safe Harbor Circuit

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1533

Date of Publication: 1983.

Call Number: 287 C747

Responsibility: prepared and indexed by Pauline Benedict James.

Place of Publication: Photocopy

Date of Publication: 1983.

Physical Description: 3 vol. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Contains records of Colemanville Church (Rineer page 79 # 6) Conestoga Church (Rineer page 80 # 7)and Safe Harbor Church (Rineer page 285 # 10)..; Book I, 1927 - 1957 includes baptisms, deaths and marriages.; Book 3, 1927 - 1957 is the membership register.; Includes separate index for these two volumes plus Safe Harbor records at CR 287 S128c.

Subjects: Safe Harbor Methodist Church (Manor Township); Colemanville Methodist Church (Conestoga Township); Conestoga Methodist Church (Conestoga Township); Register of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 287 C747

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster : prolegomenon to a social history

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Date of Publication: 1986.

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster: Prolegomenon to a Social History by Leroy Hopkins, Ph.D. in Lancaster City"s southeastern quadrant, at the juncture of North and Strawberry Streets, stands a structure which has long been connected with Lancaster"s Afro-American community: Bethel Africa

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Responsibility: by Leroy Hopkins, Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1986.

Physical Description: 205-236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 90, no. 4

Subjects: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. James' African Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Columbia.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 90, number 4 (1986), p. 205-236Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.90

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Grave undertakings : gravestone inscriptions of Old Warwick Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Xakellis, Martha J.

Date of Publication: c1989-

Call Number: 310.35 X1

Responsibility: by Martha J. Xakellis.

ISBN: 155856019X (v. 1); 1558561226 (v. 2); 1558562044 (v. 3)

Author: Xakellis, Martha J.

Place of Publication: Apollo, PA

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: c1989-

Physical Description: v. <1-4 > : ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents: v. 1. Elizabeth Township -- v. 2. Warwick Township -- v. 3. Clay township -- v.4. Penn Township -- v. 5. Lititz Borough.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennyslania; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Elizabeth (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Clay (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Lititz (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.35 X1

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

Hanover, York County Hershey, Derry Twp., Dauphin County Ironville, West Hempfield Twp. J. G. Brill Co. Kinport Road Lancaster Lancaster & York Street Railway Company Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company Lancaster, Elizabethtown

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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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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Object ID: MG0153

Date Range: 1862-1987

Boston Insurance Co. Brochures Brownstown, West Earl Twp. Businesses Christmas carols Clarion Steam Printing House Clipper Magazine Colonial Theatre Columbia Columbia Flour Mills Columbia Herald Job Printing Office �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633

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Collection: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Title: Advertising and Promotional Collection

Description: The Advertising and Promotional Collection contains materials for a wide variety of businesses and organizations in Lancaster County, including manufacturers, department and clothing stores, entertainment venues, grocery stores, restaurants, service providers, and social clubs. Of special interest is the use of both English and German in a brochure from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., as well as in the soap-making directions from the Pennsylvania Salt Co. There are also a 1921 program from Lancaster's Colonial Theatre and boxing programs that list Lancaster native, Leo Houck.

Date Range: 1862-1987

Year Range From: 1862

Year Range To: 1987

Date of Accumulation: 1862-1987

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bogle, George; Bortzfield, Jere; Butler, Smedley D.; Correll, Clint; Eberly, Jay M.; Evans, Melvern R,; Frueauff, W. Herman T.; Hawbaker, Gary; Houck, Leo; Huss, Arlene Rider; Jackson, J. T.; Jenner, Edward; Kelly, P. B.; Kepler, Aaron Conrad; Lynch, Charles O.; Manning, Peggy Sheets; Martin, John W.; Miller, Charles F.; Musser, Andrew J.; Miller, J. R.; Rohrer, Willis; Ross, Betsy; Schuneman, Ray; Skiles, John D.; Slaymaker, R. M.; Smith, Lynn A.; Smith, Marjorie A.; Stauffer, Sarah Ann; Stumpf, Ed; Suydam, Henry; Tobias, Richard J.; Yecker, Paul C.; Rowe, Ceylon; Landes, Lizzie; Stehman, Henry L.

Subjects: Advertising; Ephemera; Advertising fliers; Fliers (Ephemera)

Search Terms: A&P; A. F. Huber Food Store; Advertisements; Advertising; Advertising fliers; Announcements; Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Aunt Betty's Playhouse; Big Boy Restaurants; Boston Insurance Company; Brochures; Brownstown, West Earl Twp.; Business; Christmas carols; Clarion Steam Printing House; Clipper Magazine; Colonial Theatre; Columbia; Columbia Flour Mills; Columbia Herald Job Printing Office; Columbian Printing Company; Cope Brothers; Dr. Raub's Egg White Soap; Drawings; E. H. Gochnauer and Sons; East Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Ed Stumpf's Service Stations; Engle and Hambright; Ephemera; Express Steam Printers; Finding aids; Finks Baked Products; Flyers; Gardner and Craver; Gates Dental Company, Inc.; Glitsch' Imperial Russian Mustard; Grandview Heights; Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company; Harrison Brothers and Company; Heinitsh Furniture Company; Hershey and Groff; Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. (Maryland); Invitations; John D. Skiles, Dry Goods and Clothing; John Herr's Mill; Kelly Cadillac; Kunkel and Brother; L. B. Herr & Son; Lakeland Stabling Company; Lancaster; Lancaster Advertiser's Club; Lancaster Bar Association; Lancaster Chemical Company; Lancaster Country Store; Lancaster County Heritage Magazine; Lancaster Dispensing Company; Lancaster Outdoor Advertising Company; Lime Spring Farm; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Lynch Drop Center Fifth Wheel and Gear Connections; Manuscript groups; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Mill Bridge Village & Camp Resort; Mills; Moderne Manor; Musselman and Slaymaker; New Holland, Earl Twp.; Pacquin's Dentist's and Physician's hand cream; Peach Bottom Slate Mining Company; Pennsylvania Salt Company; Pequea Lime; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Place Marie; Restaurants; Restore 'N More; Rohrerstown, East Hempfield Twp.; Russo Answer-Phone Service; Sayres, Scheid & Sweeton; Steinman Hardware; Stockyard Inn; Stores; Sunday News; Trivers Clothes; Trout and Shank; F. W. Woolworth Co.; H. L. Stehman and Co.; Heitshu's Drug Store

Extent: 1 box, 13 folders, .2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0153

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Business and Industry Collection (MG0107); Invoice and Receipt Collection (MG0253); Billheads from the Commissioners' Orders for Payment Collection (MG0182); Business Letterhead Collection (MG0254)

Notes: Preferred Citation: Advertising and Promotional Collection (MG0153), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

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-153

Other Number: MG-153

Classification: MG0153

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: This collection was originally cataloged in 1998 and the finding aid is updated as items are added. Added to database 25 August 2021.

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Tax lists: East Donegal Twp., East Hempfield Twp., East Lampeter Twp

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Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Date of Publication: 1985

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 5: #36

Alternate Title: East Donegal Township taxes

Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Date of Publication: 1985

Physical Description: Microfilm.

Series: Lancaster County Pa. Tax Records, 1748-1855

Notes: East Donegal Twp. 1845-46 (continued from reel #35); East Hempfield Twp. 1824, 1826-28, 1830-42, 1844-46; East Lampeter Twp. 1823, 1841-46 (Continued from reel #37 & 38)

Subjects: Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; East Donegal (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; East Hempfield (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; East Lampeter (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 5: #36

A history of the Garden Spot High School area

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19464

Date of Publication: 1958

Call Number: 975.815 EARL H674

Responsibility: by the Garden Spot Chapter Pennsylvania Federation of Junior Historians

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.] ;

Date of Publication: 1958

Physical Description: 27 p. ; 15 cm.

Notes: Includes advertising

Subjects: Pennsylvania Federation of Junior Historians; New Holland (Pa.) - History; Terre Hill (Pa.) - History; Brecknock Township - Lancaster County, Pa. - History; Caernarvon Township - Lancaster County, Pa. - History; Earl Township - Lancaster County, Pa. - History

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.815 EARL H674

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Faith and works at Middle Octorara since 1727 : a history of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, R.D. 3, Quarryville, Pa. Edited by Sanders P. McComsey

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2050

Records of pastoral acts at Emanuel Lutheran Church, known in the eighteenth century as the Warwick congregation, near Brickerville, Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1743-1799

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1975

Tax Lists: West Hempfield Twp., West Lampeter Twp

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20810

Conestoga United Methodist Church Conestoga, Lancaster County, Pa. formerly Conestoga Methodist Episcopal Church records for Safe Harbor Circuit

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1533

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster : prolegomenon to a social history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo262

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Grave undertakings : gravestone inscriptions of Old Warwick Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8368

Archive

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Archive

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Tax lists: East Donegal Twp., East Hempfield Twp., East Lampeter Twp

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20799

A history of the Garden Spot High School area

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19464