: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Pa.) American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. German American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

THE NEWSPAPERS OF LAN- CASTER COUNTY. In 1896 1 was induced to attempt the compilation of a bibliography of the newspapers, magazines and other pe- riodical issues of the press in the city of Lancaster from 1752 down to that time. Two or three previous attempts, and very successful ones, too, had

. Pennsylvania seems to have been an asylum n for many tribes of Indians. Evcry tribe in the county was brought under the yoke of the Five Nations. The Susquehannocks, aided by troops from Maryland, fought a bloody battle near Turkey Hill in 1676 with the Northern Confederacy and defeated them, but later became

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

The Early Settlement and Population of Lancaster County and City. It is to be regretted that our fathers and grandfathers were so indifferent to the important events of their time, to the many stirring scenes and occur- rences of that early period, as not to have put them on record for the in

among the unpublished archives at Harrisburg several years ago was rewarded by the finding of the following report, made by George Stewart, one of the State Agents for confiscated estates in this locality. It gives a full inventory of all the lands, goods and chattels of the Reine broth- ers and has

county nearly all of them take English newspapers, and read them, too. What he means when he says "The Pennsylvania Dutchman (we are certain he did not see one during his visit to Lancaster county) does not favor too much education for young people," we do not know, but we do know that all their children

. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 295-303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading