230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Emanuel (Max) Peters Interviewer: Beverly Newton Date Recorded: July 9, 2004 Transcriber: Bev Newton Date Transcribed: July

losing about 1500 veterans a day. That’s pretty bad; it’s just so many, so many men served in the [fourth lieutenant] its just coming to that time, when, they start collecting now for the Veteran’s Oral History project. J: I seen on TV some of that. I: yeah, they starting to collect oral stories a little

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Mrs. Wagner Interviewer: Unknown Place of Interview: Date of Interview: Transcriber: Katie Fichtner Date of Transcription: 09/28/2005 Edited by: Narrator: Mrs. Wagner, first of all, I’d like to ask you have you always lived in

tenants and it was a congestion of business which had grown up for reasons that were logical in this community. The economy of Lancaster county the farther back you go, the much greater was its agricultural economy. And April one was a convenient time for changing ownerships in farmsandoccupancies of fams

you or for me, he would build three, four, five houses for sale, and these would go back in the early twenties. Two of the outstanding people in Lancaster City who did this sort of thing was Frank Krissler and the Caldwells. Owen Caldwell. This changed the whole thing and it became spread out over the

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Wilmer Eshelman Interviewer: Mike Frey Place: Date: Transcriber: Warren Metzger Date of Transcription: 05/27/2006 Edited by: N: Wilmer Eshelman on farming. Interviewer, Mike Frey. Ok, Mr. Eshelman, would you like to start by