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
This is a transcript of a Pennsylvania German talk presented at Muddy Creek Farm Library, Farmersville (Ephrata), Pennsylvania, on September 4, 2015.
Excerpt: "The main thing this evening will be [another] nice talk by...Alan Keyser having to do once again with old Pennsylvania Dutch foodways...Now, the last time I spoke...I described where folks used to eat and how they ate. This time I want to talk a bit about where and how they cooked their food and did their baking, and also about the use of smokehouses." The conversation discusses hearth cooking and all it requires: firewood, pots and pans, and chimney cleaning.
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."
