The oldest inhabitants of the Bowmansville area -- Mennonite pioneers -- Reformed and Lutheran settlers -- A Mennonite congregation emerges -- Samuel Bowman, the founder -- The school fight produces a new Mennonite congregation -- The Yellow Hill Community (Brushtown) -- The Musselman family -- Rocks in the Bowmansville hills -- The 1884 robbery -- St. Paul's Lutheran and Reformed Church -- A famous printing press -- Hosteling comes to Bowmansville -- A twentieth century pioneer.
Family files are created for Lancaster County families. They may contain correspondence about a family, short genealogies and charts, photocopies of inventories and accounts, letters, etc. The size of any particular family file varies greatly.
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.