Petition to the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions from citizens of Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, to have a new road laid out so that they may get to their post office without having to pay a turnpike toll.
The original of this document is in Samuel R. Slaymaker II, White Chimneys Collection, MG-268, Series 2, Box 3, Folder 46.
Left was liquor store, right was Dr. Shear's office, pharmacy and soda fountain. 601 - 605 Manor Street at Dorwart Street. Later Luckee's Elbow Room.
Provenance
Photo album entitled "My Cabbage Hill" compiled by Francis X. Schaller, Jr., of photos of the Cabbage Hill neighborhood of Lancaster. Photographs were taken in 2008, but Mr. Schaller's memories of the neighborhood from 1935 to 1948, from the age of 5 to the age of 18, are included. Mr. Schaller is an Armstrong retiree and grew up in the Cabbage Hill neighborhood.
Class is in session today just as it has been for over 90 years at the Weavertown One Room School in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Life-size animated wax "scholars", surrounded by original blackboards and wooden desks, recreate a classroom atmosphere similar to that found in the one-room school system still used by the Old Order Amish.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Crowd of men on East King Street in front of building that is next to H.R. LeFever Grocery store, and R.R. Sheaffer Liquors and Lancaster Dental Parlor.
Various County officials lined up to shake hands with a man and woman. Ben Weaver, Commissioner, Brenda Swingler, Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Paul Paes, Register of Wills are the only identifiable officials.
