An 1852 lithograph of the city of Lancaster,PA, is lauded for it's exceptional clarity and exactness in it representation of the city. The author discusses some of the buildings shown and also points out the vast open area which would explode into the Cabbage Hill section of Lancaster.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 120, number 1/2 (2019), p. 66-74Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.120 n.1/2
The origins of the "Cabbage Hill" neighborhood of Lancaster,PA, is discussed in this journal article. This area was first settled in the early part of the 18th century and its first neighborhood, Bethelstown, was established in 1762. Bethelstown's role in the development of Cabbage Hill is discussed.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 120, number 1/2 (2019), p. 42-65Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.120 n.1/2
The early history of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lancaster : Part 1: Starting as a mission Sunday school of Trinity Lutheran Church, and struggling to establish a stable congregation, 1867-1880
The early history of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lancaster : Part II: Becoming a separate congregation, considering location options, and planning for a new church building, 1880-1890
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 118, number 1 (2017), p. 3-37Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article974.9 L245 v. 118, no. 1
A good, honest, hard working man : William Christian Paulsen and his family - German immigrants who settled in Lancaster in the mid- to late-nineteenth century
"William Paulsen's story, although unique in its details, is generally typical of the stories of many other middle-class German immigrants in Lancaster. Together, these stories comprise an important part of Lancaster's history that may not be very well known because immigrants in the middle class, although in the great majority, did not leave as many traces in the historical records as did more affluent, well-known immigrants. As a result, the stories of middle-class immigrants are more difficult to piece together. However, in the case of William Paulsen and his family, we are fortunate to have extensive family sources of information to draw on, as well as a substantial number of historical records."
Appendix 1 : Founding members of the High German Church ; Appendix 2 : Members of the High German Church who were arrested for distrubing the peace during the riot on January 17, 1835. Charges were brought by Carl Schaeffer and George Milligsach, elders of the High German Church ; Appendix 3 : Pastors and members of the vestry of Zion Lutheran Church during its peak years in the late nineteenth century.
pt. 1. Telling the story -- "Drive the heathen out of the land" -- "Some hot headed ill advised persons" -- "The same spirit & frantic rage" -- "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity" -- pt. 2. Retelling the story -- "I never heard one word of it till it was just over" -- "A mighty noise and hubbub" -- "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces" -- "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath" -- "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty" -- "A zone of vicious racial violence" -- pt. 3. Killers and abettors -- "The most respectable of men" -- "They had possession and would keep it" -- "Eternal shame & reproach" -- pt. 4. Death and reconciliation -- "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime" -- "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe" -- "Who was left to mourn for these people?"
"May God have mercy on the deeply affected congregation" : the divisive 1825 language dispute at Lancaster's Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity