): Pennsylvania gazette. Newspapers--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--Social life and customs--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 133-148 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

, ca. 1600-1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 123-137 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.17

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 77-86 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 22

--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 21-26 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 22, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.22 Location: LCHSJL

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Shippen family. Architecture, Domestic--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914 Description: 251-274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

periods of time. Prior to the formation of Lancaster county, much of its ter- ritory was embraced in Penn's Chester county area. Part of what now is Lancaster city was known as Gibson's Pasture or Hickory Town, prior to over two hundred years ago. East of this cen- tral locality, toward the Gap border

advertised to be run over the course at New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., for a purse of sixty dollars. The race was to consist of two mile heats3 and repeat; it was open for any horse, mare or gelding; and each horse was required to carry 140 pounds. An entrance fee of three dollars was required, if

ordinary functions of social life, Christmas in Pennsylvania, and especially in Lancaster County, was, essentially, a German festival. In the northern colonies, the joyous season was outlawed. The Puritans considered it one of the evil survivals of papistry, and statutes forbidding its celebration remained

bit of astrology / by R. K. Buehrle. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Astrology. Superstition--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 268-271 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of

AN AMISH WEDDING THREE VIRTUES — FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY — EXEMPLIFIED BY SOLEMN CEREMONY High noon neared and a solemn hush fell upon the two hundred and fifty relatives and guests asembled in the home of Benjamin Esh, at Mascot, Lancaster county, Pa., to witness a solemn wedding ceremony. To

social and political affairs. There are many descendants of this family in this vicinity. �We now come to Graeff's Landing, where a large two-story stone house was built by George Graeff, on the north side of the Conestoga River in 1784. It was rebuilt by Frederick Engle in 1890, when the name was