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Profile of centre [i.e. center] line of route of Litiz [sic] and Brickerville turnpike road

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Corporate Author: James W. Queen and Company.

Date of Publication: 1867.

Call Number: 974.815 WARW 500

Alternate Title: Profile of center line of route of Lititz and Brickerville turnpike road

Responsibility: published by James W. Queen & Co.

Corporate Author: James W. Queen and Company.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: James W. Queen & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1867.

Physical Description: 1 map profile : ms., 2 col. ; 38 x 107 cm.

Notes: "Profile Plate A July 1867."

Subjects: Roads - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Township) - Maps, Physical.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Lititz - Maps, Physical.; Roads - Pensylvania - Brickerville - Maps, Physical.; Warwick (Pa. : Township) - Maps, Physical.; Lititz (Pa.) - Maps, Physical.; Brickerville (Pa.) - Maps, Physical.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 WARW 500

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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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements

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Author: Watson, John F.

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 974.8 P544 1860

Responsibility: by John F. Watson ; embellished with engravings by T.H. Mumford.

Author: Watson, John F.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Elijah Thomas,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: 3 v., [28] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Spine title: Watson's annals of Philadelphia.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Mumford, Thomas Howland,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.8 P544 1860

Letter

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Collection: Thaddeus Stevens Collection

Title: Letter from Thaddeus Stevens to O. J. Dickey

Object ID: MG0115_P01_F003_In08

Date Range: 1863/07/07

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Collection: Thaddeus Stevens Collection

Title: Letter from Thaddeus Stevens to O. J. Dickey

Description: Letter from Thaddeus Stevens to Col. O. J. Dickey regarding troop movement with Meade's and Lee's armies, Harrisburg, Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Harrisburg.

Date Range: 1863/07/07

Creation Date: 7 July 1863

Creator: Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Dickey, Oliver James; Lee, Robert Edward; Meade, George Gordon; Stevens, Thaddeus

Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Letters; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863

Search Terms: Civil War; Correspondence; Battle of Gettysburg; Letters; Stevens and Smith Center; Vicksburg, Seige of

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Object ID: MG0115_P01_F003_In08

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Thaddeus Stevens Collection (MG0115_P01) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/fc4d62c6-ef85-4f0f-bfb8-361140325885

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Thaddeus Stevens Collection (MG0115), Part 1, Folder # or Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-115

Other Number: MG-115, Part 1, Folder 3, Insert 8

Classification: MG0115

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Added to database 18 April 2022.; Old # MG-115, Part 1, Folder 3, Insert 5, Item 2; Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.

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Complete catalogue of the names of all the students who have attended the Lititz Academy for Boys, from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1865, under the direction of Prof. John Beck to which is appended ... a valedictory letter, embracing a brief history of the rise and progress of the institution

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Date of Publication: 1865.

Call Number: 370 c736

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Pearsol & Geist,

Date of Publication: 1865.

Physical Description: 72, [1] p. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Lititz Academy for Boys (Lititz, Pa.) - Directories.; John Beck's School Lyceum (Lititz, Pa.) - Directories; Schoools - Pennsylvania - Lititz; Lititz (Pa.) - History

Additional Author: Beck, John,

Additional Corporate Author: Lititz Academy for Boys (Lititz, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 c736

Lancaster County Papers

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Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Physical Description: 2 vol. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: A series of pamphlets bound together.

Contents: Vol 1: Father Ferdinand Farmer, an apostolic missionary in three states by John F. Quirk--A discourse, delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 by P.J. Timlow--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Christ Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa.--Report of the commissioners appointed to examine the affairs of the Lancaster Savings Institution.; Vol.2: Resources and industries of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.--Historical sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895 by Anthony F. Dorley--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Historical sketch of Zion's Reformed Church [Millersville] by D.H. Landis.

Subjects: Timlow, P.J.; St. Anthony's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Christ Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster Savings Institution - Report.; Leacock Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.) - History.; Sacred Heart Academy (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. Anthony's Parochial School (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.); Reformed Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Roman Catholic Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Lutheran Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Millersville (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science

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Author: Smith, George,

Date of Publication: 1862.

Call Number: 974.814 S648

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Responsibility: by George Smith, M.D.

Author: Smith, George,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by H.B. Ashmead,

Date of Publication: 1862.

Physical Description: vii, [1], 581, [1] p. front., plates, maps (part fold.) facsims. 22 cm.

Notes: Frontispiece (map) wanting.

Subjects: Natural history - Pennsylvania - Delaware County.; Delaware County (Pa.) - History.

Additional Corporate Author: Delaware County Institute of Science (Media, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.814 S648

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Petition

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Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Bridge Records

Object ID: Bridge F0125 I007

Date Range: 1865/11

Collection: Bridge Records

Title: Bridge Records

Date Range: 1865/11

Year: 1865

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives West

Storage Container: Box 0002

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Bridges; Columbia; Conestoga Center, Conestoga Twp.; Conestoga Creek; Conestoga Twp.; Creeks; Highville, Manor Twp.; Manor Twp.; Orders; Petitions; Reports; Safe Harbor, Conestoga Twp.

Place: Conestoga Twp. and Manor Twp.

Object Name: Petition

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Bridge F0125 I007

Box Number: 002

Additional Notes: Court term: November 1865.; Location: On public road from Conestoga Center, Conestoga Twp., to Highville, Manor Twp., and Columbia, near the upper part of Safe Harbor, Conestoga Twp.; Document types: Petition for appointment of viewers.; Order and report of viewers.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Case Number: 174.000

Classification: RG 02-00 0324

Description Level: Item

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Profile of centre [i.e. center] line of route of Litiz [sic] and Brickerville turnpike road

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Archive

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Letter

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Archive

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Archive

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Complete catalogue of the names of all the students who have attended the Lititz Academy for Boys, from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1865, under the direction of Prof. John Beck to which is appended ... a valedictory letter, embracing a brief history of the rise and progress of the institution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15127

Lancaster County Papers

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Petition

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