230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Emanuel (Max) Peters Interviewer: Beverly Newton Date Recorded: July 9, 2004 Transcriber: Bev Newton Date Transcribed: July

tenants and it was a congestion of business which had grown up for reasons that were logical in this community. The economy of Lancaster county the farther back you go, the much greater was its agricultural economy. And April one was a convenient time for changing ownerships in farmsandoccupancies of fams

this is very rough, of about 1850 to the mid 1930’s. About a seventy to eighty year span which was the day in Lancaster County where deeds changed hands, leases ran out, and began anew, and the city and the courthouse and the lawyer’s offices were rushed and busy, and a lot of people came in by trolley

in agriculture. I think it has always been of interest the romance of the threshing. Now we read even to go back in biblical times when the flail and the few men were used to thresh the grain out on the ground and that was done for thousands of years, even here in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Our

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Miss Yetta Sachs Interviewer: Mrs. James Wilson Date Recorded: 1975 Transcriber: Kaitlyn Cody Date Transcribed: October 23, 2004 Ms. Wilson: Now this is the year 1975. The mode of dresses becomes so casual that many young women’s

Lancaster County Historical Society Veterans History Project Interviewer: Miles Shugar Interviewee: Arlene Huss Location: Lancaster County Historical Society Subject: World War II Experiences Date of Interview: March 11, 2009 Transcription Date: March 16, 2009 Transcriber: Miles Shugar [] indicates