Roll of Honor, Dillerville School, 1904 - 1905. W. Eugene Evans, teacher. Students listed: Mabel Baum, Enos Bowman, Pearl Bowman, Elizabeth Brackbill, George Brackbill, Mary Brackbill, John Copeland, Mary Ferguson, Anna Heagy, Mary Haas, Anna Kiehl, Benjamin Kiehl, Walter Kiehl, Chester Lanious, Edgar Lanious, Mary Lanious, Ross Lanious, Gertrude R. Leachey, Anna Marie Leed, Clair Leed, Jacob Leed, Kathryn P. Leed, Bessie Lowery, Hannah Rodman, John Sheaffer, Mary Sheaffer, Susan Sheaffer, Earl Stauffer, Maud Stauffer, John Westman, Harry Westman, Alice Welsh, Anna Welsh, Edna Wissler, Elizabeth Wissler, Jacob Wissler, and Mary Wissler. Real photo postcard.
Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster County, Pa. Lancaster takes especial pride in the Landis Valley Museum. Here you may see over 200,000 items that, until recently, have never before been accessible to visitors. Spread before you is a complete picture of the life of the Pennsylvania German farmer from 1710 to 1900. Exhibits are housed in five buildings, typical of old-time country life. You will see furniture, farm and household tools, a large gun collection, beautiful grandfather clocks by Ford and Schreiner of Lancaster, Amish wagons and carts, a valuble collection of Family Bibles and old books - among them Benjamin Franklin's Almanac and volumes from the pre-Revolutionaly press of the Ephrata Cloisters.
Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Development, Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation - recent reconstruction costing $125 million enhanced the east facade of the service building. The powerhouse is 1,011 feet long with dam included totalling 4,869 feet across the Susquehanna River. this hydroelectiric generating plant utilizes a 55 foot head of water impounded in a 10 mile long Lake Clarke; located 32 miles above the Chesapeake Bay.
Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Development, Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation - The Safe Harbor plant, located on the Susquehanna River 32 miles above the Chesapeake Bay, i sone of the largest hydroelectric "run of the river" dams in the eastern United States. it generates a rated capacity of 417,000 kilowatts, or approximately 1.2 billion kilowatt hours per year, servicing over 1/4 millon families. Original construction was started April 1930, with closure of the dam September 1931, and first generation December 7, 1931. The impounded Lake Clarke is 10 miles long with the dam being 4,869 feet long, 75 feet high with a 55 foot usable head of water for generation. The 1986 $125 million expansion increased the Power House from 638 feet to 1,011 feet, almost doubling the generation capacity. five additional 37.5 mw. General Electric generators were added to the 7 13,800 volt units producing 60 cycle and 25 cycle power.
Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Development, Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation - The Safe Harbor plant, located on the Susquehanna River 32 miles above the Chesapeake Bay, i sone of the largest hydroelectric "run of the river" dams in the eastern United States. it generates a rated capacity of 417,000 kilowatts, or approximately 1.2 billion kilowatt hours per year, servicing over 1/4 millon families. Original construction was started April 1930, with closure of the dam September 1931, and first generation December 7, 1931. The impounded Lake Clarke is 10 miles long with the dam being 4,869 feet long, 75 feet high with a 55 foot usable head of water for generation. The 1986 $125 million expansion increased the Power House from 638 feet to 1,011 feet, almost doubling the generation capacity. five additional 37.5 mw. General Electric generators were added to the 7 13,800 volt units producing 60 cycle and 25 cycle power.
Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster County, Pa. U.S. Route 222 - 2 miles north of Lancaster, Pa. Open to the public - Here-in on display are numerous tools, weapons, utensils, crafts, etc. which were used b y the fore-fathers of this area in by-gone days.
Landis Valley Museum - using basic tools, hammer and forge, the blacksmith porduces items from iron in a demonstration of manufacturing in the 19th century. The museum is located at Landis Valley, four miles north of Lancaster on Route 222.
