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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

Railroad Conestoga Traction Company Conestoga Transportation Company Conewago Water & Power Company Correspondence Dallastown, York County Drawings Duke Street East Belt line East King Street East Petersburg Elizabethtown Engleside, Lancaster Twp. Ephemera Ephrata Express Printing Co. Greeting cards

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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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Coverlet

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Collection: Decorative Arts Collection: Textiles

Object ID: 2007.009

Date Range: 1838

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Collection: Decorative Arts Collection: Textiles

Description: Jacquard coverlet made by Samuel Hippert. Weft yarns are red, green and blue wool and warp is natural white cotton. Two loom widths sewn together in center.; Center field has circles of foliate motifs. Border includes a double row of 8-petal flowers. At foot end and sides is an inner borders of roosters.; Weaver's blocks in corners at foot: "S+ H+ ELI/ ZABETH/ TOWN/ PA 1858/ SARAH/ ANN/ FLURY". Band with "H PATENT" repeated along runs across coverlet between weaver's blocks.; Sides are self-fringes; foot edge finished with applied fringe. Top/head edge has red cotton tape handsewn over the raw edge.; .; Corner blocks have "S.H. ELIZABETHTOWN PA 1838 SARAH ANN FLURY". Hippert worked in Mount Joy ca. 1833-1838 and in Elizabethtown ca. 1835-1841.

Date Range: 1838

Made By: Hippert, Samuel

Last Owner: Flury, Sarah Ann

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 39

Storage Shelf: Shelf 2

Storage Container: Box 0139

People: Hibbert, Samuel; Flury, Sarah Ann

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Elizabethtown (Pa.)

Search Terms: Coverlets; Elizabethtown; Jacquard weaving

Object Name: Coverlet

Material: Cotton, Wool

Length (cm): 242.57

Length (ft): 7.9583333333

Length (in): 95.5

Width (in): 84

Dimension Details: Width: 76 inches + 4-inch fringes on both sides = 84 inches wide; Length: 91.5 inches to 4-inch fringe = 95.5 inches long

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2020-03-12

Condition Notes: Fringe wear/loss on both sides near head of coverlet; some staining; tape along top edge is loose in a few places.

Object ID: 2007.009

Notes: Updated By CMR On 5/23/2016; Weaver Samuel Hippert is cited in:; 1. Heisey, John W., compiler. "A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers." Wmsburg, VA: The Colonial Wmsbrg. Foundation, 1978. pp 70-1.; 2. Anderson, Clarita. "American Coverlets and Their Weavers." Wmsburg, VA, 2002. p. 173.

Place of Origin: Elizabethtown

Accession Number: 2007.009

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First Church of God, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania/ One hundred fifty years of origin and growth

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2077

Date of Publication: 1987

Call Number: 286.73 F527

Place of Publication: [Elizabethtown, Pa

Publisher: s.n.]

Date of Publication: 1987

Physical Description: 44p.; 23 cm.

Subjects: First Church of God (Elizabethtown, Pa.); Church of God - Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 286.73 F527

50 years of God's faithfulness : Mt. Calvary Church Elizabethtown, Pa

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2436

Date of Publication: 1980.

Call Number: 289.913 F469

Place of Publication: 20th Century Publications

Publisher: Lexington, Ky.,

Date of Publication: 1980.

Physical Description: unpaged : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes membership information of photographs and addresses.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 168 #11.

Subjects: Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown; Churches - Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown - Directories

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.913 F469

Elizabethtown College - Information file

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Call Number: Information file - Elizabethtown College

Notes: 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.

Subjects: Elizabethtown College - Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Information File

Call Number: Information file - Elizabethtown College

Elizabethtown ; Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15532

Edition: 2005 ed.

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 974.815 ELIZ 100

Alternate Title: City of Elizabethtown & Lancaster County; City of Elizabethtown and Lancaster County; Lancaster County

Edition: 2005 ed.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: Hometown Productions],

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: 2 maps on 1 sheet : both sides ; 56 x 88 cm. and 56 x 87 cm. on sheet 58 x 89 cm., folded to 11 x 23 cm.

Notes: Panel title.; Includes location map and advertisements.; Elizabethtown map includes index to streets.

Contents: Elizabethtown -- Lancaster County.

Subjects: Roads - Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown - Maps.; Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Maps.; Elizabethtown (Pa.) - Maps.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 ELIZ 100

Plantings on the Masonic Homes property, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pa., 1910-1939

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15886

Date of Publication: 1939]

Call Number: 366.1 P714

Alternate Title: Plantings at the Masonic Homes at Elizabethtown, Pa.

Place of Publication: [Pennsylvania?

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1939]

Physical Description: 64 p. ; 16 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "This survey has been made by the Landscape Gardener of the Masonic Homes--Gustaf E. Malmborg"--P. 2.; Introd. signed: Committee on Masonic Homes, and dated July 1939.

Subjects: Masonic Homes (Elizabethtown, Pa.) - Catalogs.; Plants - Catalogs and collections - Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown.

Additional Author: Malmborg, Gustaf E.

Additional Corporate Author: Masonic Homes (Elizabethtown, Pa.); Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. Committee on Masonic Homes.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 366.1 P714

Church records

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Corporate Author: St. Peter Roman Catholic Church, Elizabethtown, Pa.

Call Number: Drawer 2, sec. 4: #263

Corporate Author: St. Peter Roman Catholic Church, Elizabethtown, Pa.

Physical Description: 1 reel , 35 mm.

Notes: Labeled on box #263.; Includes baptisms, 1795-1809, 1818-1899; deaths, 1822; marriages, 1829-1838, 1842-1899; list of priests 1798-1900; confirmations 1844-1942 and burials 1842-1857, 1860-1900.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County", page 165, #3.

Subjects: St. Peter Roman Catholic Church (Elizabethtown, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennslvania - Elizabethtown; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - ELizbethtown

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 2, sec. 4: #263

Evan. Lutheran Church Records: Christ Evan Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown, PA [Church records, 1771-1922]

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Corporate Author: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown, Pa.

Call Number: Drawer 3, sec. 1: #407

Corporate Author: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown, Pa.

Physical Description: 1 reel , 35 mm.

Notes: Labeled on box #407.; Records include history, minutes, baptism, confirmations, marriages, burials, communicants, members, officers and pastors in six volumes.; Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 165, #2.

Subjects: Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church (Elizabethtown, Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Elizabethtown (Lancaster County, PA : Borough) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 3, sec. 1: #407

Probate

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Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Object ID: Ren 1899 F041

Date Range: 1899

Collection: Renunciations

Title: Renunciations

Description: Renunciations are papers filed in the Orphans' Court by executors of an estate who do not wish to administer that estate. They show the name of the decedent, the decedent's place of residence, the name of the person renouncing administration, the name of the replacement administrator to be appointed, and date. The relationship between the decedent, the executor, and the administrator is usually shown. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

System of Arrangement: Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically within each year.

Date Range: 1899

Date of Accumulation: 1762-1820, 1821-1842, 1880-1906

Year: 1899

Creator: Register of Wills

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Container: Box 0019

People: Gish, John B.; Gish, Jacob B.; Wormley, Kate; Ramsey, Nettie; Peck, Christian

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Renunciation; Elizabethtown

Place: Elizabethtown

Extent: 12 cubic feet

Object Name: Probate

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: Ren 1899 F041

Box Number: 019

Associated Material: Administrators Accounts; Miscellaneous Orphans' Court Papers

Additional Notes: Renouncers: Gish, Jacob B.; Wormley, Kate; Ramsey, Nettie.; Administrator: Peck, Christian.; 1 item, 1 piece

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restricted use of original. A photocopy will be made for patron use.

Classification: RG 03-00 0115

Description Level: Item

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