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.
Traditional patterns and skillful fingers are abundant at a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania quilting party. Approximately 100 hours of work go into each quilt, but for these and other local Mennonite women it is a loabor of love. Finished quilts are frequently donated to charity auctions. Photograph taken for the Pennsylvania Dutch Visitors Bureau.
Photograph- Photographs found in Henry Brubaker document boxes in LCHS library (with family files), taken in Europe. "Mennonite Church near Milhausen, France"
Photograph- Photographs found in Henry Brubaker document boxes in LCHS library (with family files), taken in Europe. "Mennonite Church near Milhausen, France"
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Photographs found in Henry Brubaker document boxes in LCHS library (with family files), taken in Europe. "Mennonite Church near Milhausen, France"
Raymond W. High, Abram D. Landis, Merle Kolb and Elmer Zimmerman are near and in the truck that carried supplies to their work sites in the Shenandoah National Park. High and Landis were Mennonites from Lancaster County.
Men in Civilian Public Service camp no. 45 near Luray, Virginia, operating from 1942 to 1946, worked in the Shenandoah National Park on a variety of projects including: wildlife surveys, blister rust control, construction of lookout towers, maintenance of National Park Headquarters, emergency farm work, clearing highways of snow, and firefighting. Ernest Ropp, Titus L. Sensenig and Clarence A. Hurst are pictured working next to the road. Sensenig and Hurst were Mennonites from Lancaster County.
John H. Rudy, a Mennonite of Lancaster County, served for about two years with a Civilian Public Service Camp. He is reading papers from a sruveying project.
