Tom Heckles, center, is welcomed home from Vietnam by his wife, Kathy, and his father, John, at the Heckles home on Springside Drive in Lancaster. Heckles served two tours in the Navy as a Sea Bee.
Photograph- Martin Horting seated with his cat on his lap outside his tarpaper shack. On the shack is a sign that says "God Bless My Home".
Description
Martin Horting seated with his cat on his lap outside his tarpaper shack. On the shack is a sign that says "God Bless My Home". Real photo postcard. Horting was a blind man who sold almanacs, pencils, and flags in Penn Square. He lived behind the Lancaster County Almshouse. He was born November 5, 1874 and died on December 15, 1941 when he was hit by a car as he was crossing the Lincoln Highway near City Mill Road. He is buried at Voganville Union Cemetery in Earl Township.
Snavely's Mill covered bridge, also called Second Lock covered bridge, destroyed by fire in 1968. Spanned the Conestoga Creek between Lancaster and Pequea Townships.
Provenance
Photographs of a 2003 Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society bridge safari.
Roslyn, also known as the P. T. Watt mansion, corner of Marietta and North President Avenues. Built 1896.
Provenance
Album of 35 mm slides of buildings in Lancaster County designed by architecht C. Emlen Urban. Slides taken by Carol Morgan for a lecture for the Torch Club in June 2002.
