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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Responsibility: Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;

Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.; Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.; Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Author: Britton, William W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Hopewell Village; a social and economic history of an iron-making community

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Author: Walker, Joseph E.,

Date of Publication: [1966]

Call Number: 974.816 W181

Responsibility: [by] Joseph E. Walker.

Author: Walker, Joseph E.,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Date of Publication: [1966]

Physical Description: 526 p. illus. 22 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 473-498.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 W181

Architectural notes on preservation of razings : former Historical Society "modernized"

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Date of Publication: 1962

buildings. This site was cleared to permit a shopping and park- ing facility to be constructed. Opposite this site on East King Street are the Lancaster County National Bank and the old Stern Store, both being demolished to make way for a "modern" bank building. Both structures are now gone. New Ern Photo

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Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1962

Physical Description: [95]-106 p. ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 66, no. 2

Subjects: Lancaster County Courthouse (Pa.); Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; City planning - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 66, number 2 (1962), p. 95-106Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.66

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Lights along the Delaware

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Author: Rivinus, Marion Willis Martin,

Date of Publication: [1965]

Call Number: 974.821 R625

Responsibility: by Marion Willis Rivinus and Katharine Hansell Biddle.

Author: Rivinus, Marion Willis Martin,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Dorrance

Date of Publication: [1965]

Physical Description: x, 114 p. 21 cm.

Summary: This is a story of the great houses that lined the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River from Torresdale to Bristol, and of their counterparts on Radcliffe Street in Bristol itself.The period emphasized is the Victorian, and the book includes an essay on how wealthy Victorians lived in their well-staffed mansions and on their carefully groomed country estates. Many interesting customs are recorded. [from a review by Nicholas Wainwright]

Subjects: Bucks County (Pa.) - Historic houses, etc.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Historic houses, etc.

Additional Author: Biddle, Katharine Hansell,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.821 R625

Wheatland's landscape : 1848-1868

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Author: Shenk, John.

Date of Publication: 1963

Wheatland's Landscape: 18 4 8-18 6 8 John Shenk Wheatland, the home of President James Buchanan, is a beautiful country estate located a mile and a half west of downtown Lancaster. In- side the vine-covered brick mansion, the rooms and furnishings have been faithfully restored to the minutest

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Responsibility: by John Shenk.

Author: Shenk, John.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1963

Physical Description: [93]-100 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 67, no. 2

Subjects: Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Landscape architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 67, number 2 (1963), p. 93-100Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.67

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The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1897

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Pa.) American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. German American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1897

Physical Description: [72]-84 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 3

Subjects: Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Pa.); American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; German American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 19th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 3 (1897), p. 72-84Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1

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Old mills in Lancaster County

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Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 725.4 O43

Responsibility: edited by Ira D. Landis.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Franklin and Marshall College Library,

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: [22] p. (incl. cover) illus. 23 cm.

Series: Community historians annual; Community historians annual no. 3

Notes: Cover title.

Subjects: Mills and millwork - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Historic houses, etc.

Additional Author: Paes, Chester.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 725.4 O43

Lancaster County mills

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Author: Paes, Chester.

Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 725.4 O44s

Responsibility: compiled by Chester Paes.

Author: Paes, Chester.

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: 4 volumes.

Series: Community historians annual no. 3, no. 6.

Notes: Copy of the original records of mills compiled by Chester Paes.; Some files missing.; Vol. 1 #1-#49--Vol. 2 #50-#103--Vol. 3 #104-189--Vol. 4 #190-253.; Booklet serving as an index for the Chester Paes material housed in LC 621.85 O43.

Subjects: Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Historic houses, etc.

Additional Author: Paes, Chester.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 725.4 O44s

Der Wahre Amerikaner. [microfilm]

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Date of Publication: 1804-

Call Number: LCHS Drawer 18, Sec. 3

Alternate Title: Grimlers Zeitung ..... Extra

Place of Publication: Lancaster [Pa.]

Publisher: H. und B. Grimler,

Date of Publication: 1804-

Physical Description: v. ; 27 cm.

Publication Frequency: Weekly

Dates of Publication: Nr. 1 (10. Nov. 1804)-; Ceased in 1849.

Notes: LCHS has: Nov. 10, 1804 - Dec. 28, 1811.; Labeled on box N-213.; See Bound Newspaper Database for additional issues.; Subtitle: Eine Zeitung fuer den Bauer und Stadtmann, Dec. 20, 1806-<1822>.

Subjects: Germans - Pennsylvania - Newspapers.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Newspapers.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Newspapers.

Additional Author: Grimler, Henry,; Grimler, Benjamin,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: LCHS Drawer 18, Sec. 3

Architectural notes on preservation and razings

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Date of Publication: 1965

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.69

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1965

Physical Description: [54]-56 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 69, no. 1

Subjects: Historic preservation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.69

The hive

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Date of Publication: 1803-

Call Number: Drawer 18, Sec. 1.

Alternate Title: Lancaster hive

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: McDowell,

Date of Publication: 1803-

Physical Description: 2 v. ; 27 cm.

Publication Frequency: Weekly

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 22, 1803)-; Ceased with v. 2 (June 12, l805).

Notes: LCHS has: June 22, 1803 - June 12, 1805; Labeled on box N-142.; Published every Wednesday.; Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1946. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American periodical series, 1800-1850 ; 22).

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Newspapers.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Newspapers.

Additional Author: M'Dowell, Charles.; Greer, William.

Additional Title: Lancaster true American.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 18, Sec. 1.

The Blue and Brown

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Corporate Author: Yeates Institute (Lancaster, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 371.805 Y41

Responsibility: pub. monthly.

Corporate Author: Yeates Institute (Lancaster, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Institute ;

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: v. 23-25 cm.

Notes: Includes local advertisements.; Information from 1901.; Library has: v. 3 (1901-1902) 1-2, 4-7; v. 4 (1902-1903) 1, 3, 5-7; v.6 (1904-1905) 8; v. 13 (1911-1912) 4-5, 7; v. 20 (1918-1919) 6; (1919--1920) 1-7 bound.

Summary: This is a monthly publication of the Yeates Episcopal School citing activities of the school and its students. It was established with money donated by Jasper Yeate's daughter Catherine in 1857. The school was located on grounds presently occupied by the Lancaster Mennonite High School.

Subjects: Student newspapers and periodicals - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Yeates Institute (Lancaster, Pa.); Yeates School (Lancaster, Pa.); Yeates Episcopal School (Lancaster, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 371.805 Y41

Lancaster County's present Court House : a history of its construction 1852-1855

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Author: Kramer, Fay Follet.

Date of Publication: 1967

1749. Entire extent of Lancaster County during that period is shown in insert map. county-seat, purchasees selected John Postlethwait's Tavern as the site for the first court house of Lancaster County. Located in Con- estoga Township, near Rockville and close to the Little Conestoga Creek

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Responsibility: by Fay Follet Kramer.

Author: Kramer, Fay Follet.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1967

Physical Description: [1]-62 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 71, no. 1

Subjects: Lancaster County Courthouse (Pa.) - History.; Courthouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 71, number 1 (1967), p. 1-62Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.71

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The Lane family of Lancaster

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Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Date of Publication: 1962

. 5, 1836 �THE REDOUBTABLE HARRIET LANE Harriet Rebecca Lane, daughter of Elliot T. Lane and wife Jane Bu- chanan (sister of President James Buchanan), was born May 9, 1830, at Mercersburg, Pa., in the home later known as the Waidlich House on Main Street. She was doubly orphaned at the age of eleven

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Responsibility: by M. Luther Heisey.

Author: Heisey, M. Luther,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1962

Physical Description: [176]-186 p. ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 66, no. 4

Subjects: Lane family.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Buchanan family.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 66, number 4 (1962), p. 176-186Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.66

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The labor leader

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Date of Publication: 1892-

Call Number: Drawer #18, Sec. 1

Alternate Title: Lancaster labor leader

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1892-

Physical Description: v. : ill. (chiefly advertisements) ; 53 cm.

Publication Frequency: Weekly

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 30, 1892)-; Ceased in 1919?

Notes: LCHS has: Jan. 1896 - Sept. 1917.; Labeled on box N101-N105.; See Bound Newspaper Database for additional issues.

Subjects: Labor - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Newspapers.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Newspapers.

Additional Corporate Author: Lancaster Central Labor Union.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer #18, Sec. 1

The Society and the Willson Memorial Building

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Date of Publication: 1969.

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.73

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1969.

Physical Description: [96] p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 73, no. 2

Subjects: Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - History.; Willson Memorial Building (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Journal

Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.73

The Story of Hopewell

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Date of Publication: 1962]

Call Number: 974.816 S887

Responsibility: [illustrator, Fritizi Klopfenstein].

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, in cooperation with Hopewell Village National Historic Site, National Park Service,

Date of Publication: 1962]

Physical Description: 20 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Notes: "Junior history guide."; Cover title.; Caption title: Junior history guide to Hopewell Village.

Subjects: Hopewell Village National Historical Site.; Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Klopfenstein, Fritizi,

Additional Corporate Author: Eastern National Park and Monument Association.; United States. National Park Service.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 S887

Penn's great town; 250 years of Philadelphia architecture illustrated in prints and drawings

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Author: Tatum, George B.

Date of Publication: [1961]

Call Number: 720 T216 Oversize

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Responsibility: Foreword by Theo. B. White. [Sponsors]: The Philadelphia Art Alliance and the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

Author: Tatum, George B.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Date of Publication: [1961]

Physical Description: 352 p. plates, map. 32 cm.

Notes: Bibliography: p. 337-340.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Historic houses, etc.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 720 T216 Oversize

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Register of marriages and baptisms kept by Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing : In connection with the churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown, and Caenarvon (Episcopal) Lancaster County, Penna

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Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 283 B216i

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, Pa

Publisher: Harrisburg Publishing Company ,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 43 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Photocopy.; Rineer's "Churchs and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 51 #1, and page 117 #3 and page 165 #2.

Subjects: St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Middletown, Pa.); Bangor Episcopal Church (Caernarvon Twp. , Pa.); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Illing, Traugott Frederick Illing.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 283 B216i

Lancaster daily intelligencer. [microform]

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Date of Publication: 1864-1928.

Call Number: Drawer 19, Sec. 5

Alternate Title: Lancaster intelligencer; Daily intelligencer

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Cooper, Sanderson & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1864-1928.

Physical Description: v.

Publication Frequency: Daily (except Sun.), Jan. 1, 1881-

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Aug. 29, 1864)-v. 64, no. 193 (Apr. 14, 1928).

Notes: LCHS has: Aug. 29, 1864 - 1928; Box labeled 10.; See Bound Newspaper Index for additional issues.; "Daily" appears within title ornament in small type, <1868, 1873-1876>.; Publisher varies: H.G. Smith & Co., <1873>; Steinman & Hensel, <1876>; Numerous editions available.

Subjects: Newspapers; Lancaster (Pa.) - Newspapers.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Lancaster Lancaster.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 19, Sec. 5

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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

Hopewell Village; a social and economic history of an iron-making community

Architectural notes on preservation of razings : former Historical Society "modernized"

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Lights along the Delaware

Wheatland's landscape : 1848-1868

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The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County

Documents

Old mills in Lancaster County

Lancaster County mills

Der Wahre Amerikaner. [microfilm]

Architectural notes on preservation and razings

The hive

The Blue and Brown

Lancaster County's present Court House : a history of its construction 1852-1855

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The Lane family of Lancaster

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The labor leader

The Society and the Willson Memorial Building

The Story of Hopewell

Penn's great town; 250 years of Philadelphia architecture illustrated in prints and drawings

Websites

Register of marriages and baptisms kept by Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing : In connection with the churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown, and Caenarvon (Episcopal) Lancaster County, Penna

Lancaster daily intelligencer. [microform]