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The Acadians in Lancaster County

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: 1897

description left an undefined territory and a disputed frontier. In reference to the etymology of the word Acadia, it has been written in dif- ferent ways: La Cadie, La Cady, Accadie, Accadia, Arcadie, Arcadia, and Quoddy. The etymology of the word is not certain. It is certainly not from the Greek "Arcadia

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Responsibility: by S. M. Sener, Esq.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1897

Physical Description: [37]-43 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 2

Summary: This journal article details the expulsion of the French Acadians of Canada to the American Colonies during the French and Indian War. Some of the Acadians arrive in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Subjects: Acadians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 2 (1897), p. 37-43Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1

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A.C. Leonard's directory of business and professional men of Lancaster, Pa., 1883

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Date of Publication: 1883.

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1883 reprint

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Hiestand,

Date of Publication: 1883.

Physical Description: 80 p. ; 18 cm.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.

Additional Author: Leonard, Albert Charles,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1883 reprint

Acts of Assembly concerning the Lancaster, Elizabethtown and Middletown Turnpike Road

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly.

Date of Publication: 1893.

Call Number: 625.71 E43

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Printed by John Baer,

Date of Publication: 1893.

Physical Description: 17 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Highway law - Pennsylvania.; Roads - Pennsylvania.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 625.71 E43

Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: 1887]

Call Number: 282 S 475

Responsibility: by S.M. Sener.

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: S.M. Sener,

Date of Publication: 1887]

Physical Description: 5 p. ; 24 cm.

Series: Sener, S.M. Historical pamphlets, no.5

Notes: Reprinted from U.S. Catholic historical magazine, 1887.; Bound with other pamphlets by the author: The Catholic Church at Lancaster, Penn'a (1894, 52 p.) -- Historical sketch of the ancient parish of St. Mary's, Lancaster, Pa. (n. d., 12 p) -- Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster (n. d., 5 p.) -- Some Lancaster Catholics, adn other historical notes (n.d ., 6 p.) -- Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, V. G. Sketch of one of the pioneer priest's [sic] of Pennsylvania (n. d. 10 p.) -- The Acadians in Lancaster County, Paper read before Lancaster County Historical Society, September 4, 1896 (1896, 8 p.) -- Simon S. Rathvon, Ph.D: Lancaster's oldest living devotee of science (n. d. 8 p.) -- Old time heroes of the War of the Revolution and War of 1812-14 (1895, 11 p.) -- The Lancaster barracks where the British and Hesian prisoners were detained during the Revolution (1895, 20 p.; Saint Mary's was the the first Catholic Church of Lancaster. It was built in the mid eighteenth century.