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Conestoga 1751-1855 [Tax records]

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Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Date of Publication: 1977.

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 2: #7

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Alternate Title: Conestoga twp. tax lists; Conestoga Township taxes; Conestoga taxes

Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Date of Publication: 1977.

Physical Description: Microfilm, 1056 frames. Labeled as "Pos. 7"

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

Notes: "The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1751, 1754, 1756-1757, 1759, 1769-1773, 1775-1783, 1785, 1787-1793, 1797-1803, 1806-1810, 1812, 1815-1826, 1828-1829, 1833-1843, 1845, 1855. Many of the later records (dataing from 1823 and after) appear to have sustained water damage."; "This microfilm reproduces original document in the custody of the Lancaster County Historical Society [LancasterHistory.Org]."

Subjects: Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Conestoga (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 2: #7

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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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Martic Township, 1751/Martic Township, 1831 [Tax records from 1751-1831]

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Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Date of Publication: 1977.

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 3: #22

32 documents

Alternate Title: Martic twp. taxes; Martick tax lists

Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Date of Publication: 1977.

Physical Description: Microfilm, 1170 frames. Labeled as "Pos. 22"

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

Notes: "The tax records fro this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1751, 1754, 1756-1759, 1769-1773, 1775-1783, 1785-1790, 1792-1793, 1796-1803, 1805, 1807-1825, 1827-1828, 1831, Undated. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document." [This last note may be important for the "Undated" section of tax records].; "This microfilm reproduces original document in the custody of the Lancaster County Historical Society [LancasterHistory.Org]."

Subjects: Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Martic (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 3: #22

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The nickel mines of Lancaster County

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Author: Long, John D.

Date of Publication: 1976.

cobalt). Small amounts of copper (0.1 to 2.0%) are also present. The smelting works are three quarters of a mile north of the mine in Paradise Township. PHYSICAL ASSETS and FACILITIES The mines, when fully developed in 1893 contained twelve shafts varying in depth from 60 to 235 feet over a surface

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Responsibility: by Dr. John D. Long.

Author: Long, John D.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: [157]-177 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 80, no. 3

Subjects: Gap Nickel Mines (Bart Township, Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 80, number 3 (1976), p. 157-177Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.80

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Conestoga Transportation Company, 1931-1976

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Author: Sauer, Robert E.

Date of Publication: 1977

people, they were able to act effectively to break Conestoga Traction away from holding company control. On December 4, 1931, they merged Conestoga Traction with the leased companies to form Conestoga Transportation Co. Stockholders received stock in the new corporation while Lehigh Power Securities got

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Responsibility: by Robert E. Sauer, Jr.

Author: Sauer, Robert E.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1977

Physical Description: [160]-163 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 81, no. 3

Subjects: Conestoga Transportation Company.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 81, number 3 (1977), p. 160-163Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.81

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The Conestoga Traction Company, 1899-1931

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Author: Shindle, Richard D.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Lancaster County, thereby making the city the commercial and transportation center of the county. The Conestoga Traction Company after acquiring the traction sys- tem in 1899 developed it into one of the finest electric street railway systems in the United States. Although the Conestoga Traction Company

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Responsibility: by Richard D. Shindle.

Author: Shindle, Richard D.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: [31]-56 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 80, no. 1

Subjects: Conestoga Traction Company.; Electric railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 80, number 1 (1976), p. 31-56Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.80

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Seventy-five years of publishing Lancaster County history

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1971.

was engaged to print the publications in pamphlet form. By 1923 there was some dissatisfaction with the quality of printing. From May 1923 until early 1955 the publications were printed by the Conestoga Publishing Co., then owned by George Wolf. A change in ownership prompted the late M. Luther Heisey

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Responsibility: by John Ward Willson Loose.

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1971.

Physical Description: [179]-190 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 4

Subjects: Eshleman, Henry Frank, - 1869-1953.; Worner, William Frederick, - 1888-1944.; Heisey, Martin Luther, - 1881-1964.; Loose, John Ward Willson.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - History.; Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Periodicals.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 4 (1971), p. 179-190Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75

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Lancaster Township 1750-1828/Lancaster Borough 1750-1787 [Tax records]

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Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Date of Publication: 1977

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 3: #15

25 documents

Alternate Title: Lancaster twp. taxes; Lancaster tax lists

Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Date of Publication: 1977

Physical Description: Microfilm.

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

Notes: "Lancaster Township: The tax records for this township which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1750-51, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1776-77, 1779-83, 1785-92, 1797-1803, 1805-08, 1810-19, 1821-23, 1825, 1828. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document. Tax records for Lancaster Borough and City appear on this and subsequent rolls of the microfilm."; "Lancaster Borough: The tax records here reproduced for this borough, prior to its incorporation as a city on March 20, 1818, cover the following years: 1750-51, 1754, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1775, 1777-83, 1785-93, 1797-1803, 1805-17. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."; Tax records for Lancaster City 1819-1836 appear on microfilm #17 of this series; Lancaster City 1837-1840, on reel 18.

Subjects: Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster (Lancaster County, Pa. : Borough) - Genealogy.; Lancaster (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 3: #15

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Lancaster City 1837-1840/ Leacock 1757-1825 [Tax Records]

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Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Date of Publication: 1977

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 3: #18

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Alternate Title: Leacock Township tax lists; Leacock twp. taxes; Lancaster City tax lists; Lancaster City taxes

Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, PA

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Date of Publication: 1977

Physical Description: Microfilm.

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

Notes: "The tax records here reproduced for this city [Lancaster], following its incorporation as such on March 20, 1818, cover the following years: 1837-1840. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."; "The tax records for this township [Leacock] which are here reproduced cover the following years: 1757-59, 1770, 1775-1783 [?], 1785-93, 1796-1803, 1805-22, 1825, Undated (apparently after 1825). On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."