Historic Pennsylvania: Ephrata Cloister, Founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel and a group of German Pietists, who established a Protestant monastery known as the German Seventh Day Baptist. Veiw shows interior of the Saal (Church). The chamfered pilasters are two stories high. The table is pegged pine plank, 16.5" x 21". On the wall, an original Fraktur-Shriften (Biblical sayings and poem) in the early writign school. Restoration by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Ephrata Academy - Built in 1837 by the Religious Society of Seventh Day (German) Baptists. At one time it was a fashionable boarding school. It served to carry on the fine education tradtion of the 18th century Ephrata Religious Community. It was later used by the township school system as late as 1926.
Gap Town Clock. Seth Thomas clock, purchased in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1872 and placed on top of Hall Building. Relocated on 65 ft. tower 1892. Interested Gap Citizens saved clock when state officials found clock standing on their right-of-way during construction of Route 41. Clock moved to present location September 10, 1953.
Thanks for the pretty B. card you sent me. I got several cards + letters. Do not get much time to write letters. Ho have you both been? I am O.K. Alsies have to move. Do not know where they will go. Have not planted much garden as I do not get home very early in the eveings. Come down some Sunday. I hope I shall be home.
Cloister Country Store, Ephrata. Adjoining historic Ephrata Cloister. Having fun at t Cloister country Store - this Illinois family finds a family shot in the Gruber farm wagon a lasting memento of their Pennsylvania Cutch Country vacation. Patterned after a Pennsylvania Dutch barn, this early American Country Store feateures native handcrafted products. Pennsylvania Dutch food, hex signs, coins, stamps and antiques.
