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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

Tax Lists: Mount Joy Twp., Rapho Twp., Sadsbury Twp

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Author: Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau

Date of Publication: 1985

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 5: #42

Alternate Title: Mount Joy 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: Mount Joy Twp 1846 (continued from reel #41); Rapho Twp 1831, 1836, 1838-46.; Sadsbury Twp 1832, 1838, 1840-46.

Subjects: Taxation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Mount Joy (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Rapho (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 6, sec. 5: #42

Through the windows of Wickersham

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Author: Hiestand, Esther Mae Longenecker,

Date of Publication: 1986

Call Number: 370 H633

Responsibility: by Mrs. Paul Hiestand

Author: Hiestand, Esther Mae Longenecker,

Place of Publication: Elizabethtown, PA

Publisher: Y/Z Printing Co.

Date of Publication: 1986

Physical Description: 166 p. ill. 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index

Contents: Part I: Stackstown- History of Stackstown, Tillman S. Kraybill farm, Oliver Sager, William Ort, Benjamin Hoffman, Goudie's Creamery, Aunt Sally's store, Demmy's milk route, Stackstown Store // Part II: Billmeyer: J. E. Baker, Conoy Store, Billmeyer School, Rebecca Chapel, Bainbridge Sportsmen's Club // Part III: Wickersham School.

Summary: "Located in the rolling hills of Lancaster County,Pennsylvania, the Wickersham Grammar School faithfully served the surrounding communities from 1870 to 1955....Although the Wickersham School forms the heart of this book, I have included the history of Stackstown and Billmeyer, since the pupils who attended the school came from these areas." [from the preface]

Subjects: Wickersham School (Conoy Twp.); Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Schools - Conoy Twp.; Conoy (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Education.; Conoy (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Social life and customs.; Conoy (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 H633

Tales told out of school : An informal history of the Lancaster Country Day School and the Shippen School

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Date of Publication: 1984.

Call Number: 370 C855

Responsibility: compiled by Anna Downey Gardner.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The School ,

Date of Publication: 1984.

Physical Description: 52 pages : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster Country Day School (Lancaster County, Pa.); The Shippen School (Lancaster, Pa.); Miss Stahr's School (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster College (Lancaster, Pa.); Franklin and Marshall Academy (Lancaster, Pa.); Private schools - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Education - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 370 C855

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

The North Museum : and the natural history tradition of Lancaster County

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Date of Publication: 1986

Call Number: 069 K56

Responsibility: W. Fred Kinsey, III ed. ...

Place of Publication: Ephrata, Pa

Publisher: Printed and published by Science Press,

Date of Publication: 1986

Physical Description: 2 p.l., 167, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.

Series: Science Press Keepsake ;

Notes: Edition limited to 1,200 copies, of which this is number 820.

Subjects: North Museum (Lancaster, Pa.); Botany - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Geology - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Paleontology - Pennsylvania.; Natural history - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Kinsey, W. Fred,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 069 K56

Scrapbook

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Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Amish Culture

Object ID: MG0434_Box021

Date Range: 1988/04 - 1995/07

Collection: Scrapbook Collection

Title: Amish Culture

Description: This scrapbook discusses many aspects about the Lancaster County Amish community. Several well-known Amish customs are mentioned throughout the newspaper clippings such as Rumspringa, barn raising, marriage season, and education. Other articles contain information about funeral customs, past-time activities, agriculture and other occupations. An article of special interest surrounds two Amish men arrested for religious beliefs.

Date Range: 1988/04 - 1995/07

Creation Date: April 1988 - July 1995

Year Range From: 1988

Year Range To: 1995

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 22

Subjects: Agriculture--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History; Amish; Amish farmers; Amish women; Amish--Customs and practices; Amish--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; Amish--Marriage customs and rites; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--Education; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--20th century; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History--Economic conditions; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--Social life and customs; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster--Public Opinion; Barns; Carriages; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Funeral rites and ceremonies; Horticulture; Lancaster (Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.)--History, local; Rumspringa; Scrapbooks

Search Terms: Amish; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Newspaper clippings; Scrapbooks; Women

Extent: 1 volume

Object Name: Scrapbook

Language: English

Object ID: MG0434_Box021

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Ferster, H. V. the Education of Amish Children. Buffalo, New York: Typescript, 1980.; Amish Traditions. Call Number: 289.71 Y54; The Amish of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Call Number: 289.71 S819; Amish Beliefs, Customs and Discipline. Call Number: 289.71 L643

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

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions. Please request this item by contacting Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to your visit.

Copyright: This item may be photographed. 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-434

Other Number: MG-434, Box 21

Classification: MG0434

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Cataloged by CRB, October 2007. Added to database, 24 September 2023.; Previously housed in the Scrapbook Collection, Book 158.; This project was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, ME60112, 2007-2008.

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

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Date of Publication: 1986.

assemble a comprehensive history of Bethel, hence, our limited goal of prolegomenon to a history. Lancaster County is an area rich in history and tradition. Local in- dividuals, institutions, and events of not just regional but also national in- terest have been chronicled by a long series of local

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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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A plot map and coded listing of information given on grave markers and tombstones in Altland's Meetinghouse Cemetery, Paradise Township, York County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Trimmer, Rodney W.

Date of Publication: [1980]

Call Number: 974.841 P729

Responsibility: compiled, 1977, by Rodney W. Trimmer, and compared with 1934 compilation of the Historical Society of York County, Pennsylvania.

Author: Trimmer, Rodney W.

Place of Publication: York, PA

Publisher: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: [1980]

Physical Description: 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Series: Special publication / South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society ; no. 10 (Jan. 1980)

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Altland's Meetinghouse Cemetery (York County, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - York County.; Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - York County.; York County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Corporate Author: Historical Society of York County (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.841 P729

The chronicles of Middletown, containing a compilation of facts, biographical sketches, reminiscences, anecdotes, &c., connected with the history of one of the oldest towns in Pennsylvania

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Author: Hutchinson, C. H.

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 974.818 H975

Responsibility: by C. H. Hutchinson.

Author: Hutchinson, C. H.

Place of Publication: [Middletown, Pa.]

Publisher: Middletown Area Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: vii, 266 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Notes: Chapters 45-54 give war records of Middletown volunteers, 1861-1865. Chapters 55-56 give rolls of militia companies in 1862-1863.; Reprint of the 1906 ed. published by Hutchinson.; Includes index.

Subjects: Burd family.; Cameron famiy.; Smith family.; Fisher family.; Frey family.; Kendig famiy.; Landis family.; McClure family.; Snyder family.; Middletown (Pa.) - History.; Middletown (Pa.) - Biography.; Dauphin County (Pa.) - History.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Registers.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Registers.

Additional Corporate Author: Middletown Area Historical Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.818 H975

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