Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
"Box 118, Lancaster, Pa. Sept. 11, 1909. Dear John, was glad to hear from you. You fortunately have a sturdy physique and do not need a cacation. The early part of this week I paid a short visit to my friend in Baltimore. Went down by way of Columbia and York. Say a little of the latter town for first time. The road from there to Baltimore was the "crookedest" I have ridden on. Came back from Perryville along the Susquehanna to Columbia. The scenery was fine - high hills on both sides all the way. The river is often a mile wide. Grotesque rocks everywhere. If it were only navigable it would be alive with tourists. Write again. We return Sept. 18 Yours E. Z. D."
Known as Glen Manor Mill this mill is located on Stricklers Run in West Hempfield Township. Built in 1807 by Christian Bachman. Former mill the site was built by Ulrich Shellenberger around 1750.
The driver of P. R. Shellenberger's grocery wagon steadies his horse until things settle down as the Reading's Columbia bound passenger train disappears in the distance. The signals and the structure indicate that the station of Bruckharts in rural West Hempfield Township in that distand time had an agent or a signal operator who might well have been the woman in the long skirt.
A few minutes out of Columbia on a bleak November afternoon in 1940, Reading's No. 1642 with a Reading bound freight hits the crossing at Heise's Woods as it blasts up grade on a reverse curve ascending Chestnut Hill. In an earlier day, the Reading & Columbia had a picnic ground in the "woods," and ran picnic excursions one of which was for veterans just after close of the Civil War.
