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Wheatland centennial celebration : commemorating the 100th anniversary of the election of James Buchanan 15th president of the United States 1856-1956

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Date of Publication: 1956?]

Call Number: 728.37 W557c

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: S.n.,

Date of Publication: 1956?]

Physical Description: [10] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. + reprint ([8] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.)

Notes: Cover title.; Includes the Wheatland commemorative stamp.; "Reprint from American Heritage, Volume 5, number 3, published by the American Association for State and Local History"--P. [8] of reprint.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Postage stamps - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Additional Corporate Author: James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 W557c

Wheatland, 1848-1868; the home of James Buchanan

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Author: Butler, Joseph Thomas.

Date of Publication: 1957.

Call Number: 728.37 B985

Author: Butler, Joseph Thomas.

Place of Publication: Delaware

Publisher: Univ. of Delaware,

Date of Publication: 1957.

Physical Description: 57 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Bibliography:; . 53-57.

Contents: 2 pgs missing; pages from unknown document in their place.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 B985

Marked graves

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Date of Publication: 1896

Call Number: 284 G776

Responsibility: copied by B.F. Owens in 1896.

Place of Publication: Manuscript

Date of Publication: 1896

Physical Description: 150 p. : 23 cm.

Notes: This handwritten volume is a copy made in 1896.; Gravestone inscriptions from a variety of church cemeteries in Eastern Lancaster County and Western Chester County. Churchtown is in Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County.

Subjects: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (New Holland, Pa.); Pequea Presbyterian Church (Salisbury Township); St. John's Protestant Episcopal Chuch (Chester County); Caernarvon Presbyterian Chuch (Churchtown, Pa.); Churchtown Methodist Episcopal Church (Churchtown, Pa.); Great Valley Baptist Church (Chester County); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania; Caernarvon (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; New Holland (Lancaster County, Pa. : Borough) - Genealogy.; Chester County - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 284 G776

Lancaster County Papers

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Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

Date of Publication: 1854-1922.

Physical Description: 2 vol. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: A series of pamphlets bound together.

Contents: Vol 1: Father Ferdinand Farmer, an apostolic missionary in three states by John F. Quirk--A discourse, delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854 by P.J. Timlow--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Christ Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa.--Report of the commissioners appointed to examine the affairs of the Lancaster Savings Institution.; Vol.2: Resources and industries of the City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.--Historical sketch of St. Anthony's Church, Lancaster, Penna., 1870-1895 by Anthony F. Dorley--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, Pa., on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1854--A discourse delivered in the Leacock Presbyterian Church, July 21st, 1892 by P.J. Timlow--Historical sketch of Zion's Reformed Church [Millersville] by D.H. Landis.

Subjects: Timlow, P.J.; St. Anthony's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Christ Lutheran Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Lancaster Savings Institution - Report.; Leacock Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.) - History.; Sacred Heart Academy (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. Anthony's Parochial School (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; Presbyterian Church (Lancaste County, Pa.); Reformed Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Roman Catholic Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Lutheran Church (Lancaster County, Pa.); Millersville (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L245i

One hundred and thirty and three years : sketch of the Reformed Church of Maytown, Pennsylvania

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Author: Hay, Ellis S.

Date of Publication: 1898.

Call Number: 285.8 H412

Responsibility: by Ellis S. Hay.

Author: Hay, Ellis S.

Place of Publication: Marietts, PA

Publisher: The Times Printing House,

Date of Publication: 1898.

Physical Description: 66 p. ; ill. ; 14 cm.

Notes: Cover title: 133 years, Reformed Church, Maytown, Penna.; LCHS has photocopy.

Subjects: Reformed Church of Maytown (Pa.) - History.; Reformed Church of Maytown (Pa.) - Registers.; Maytown (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Church history.; Maytown (Lancaster County, Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.8 H412

James Buchanan, "Big wheel" of the railroads

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Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Date of Publication: 1952.

Susquehanna Rivers," without mentioning the Conestoga, Swatara, or any other particular route. They, if you please, were planning a state-wide arch for traffic; but, omitting the keystone. While bewildered solons debated, James Buchanan was born at Stony Batter, near Mercersburg, Pa. He finished at

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Responsibility: by Oliver S. Sprout.

Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1952.

Physical Description: [21]-34 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 56, no. 2

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad (Pa.); Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company (Pa.); Pennsylvania Railroad.; Canals - Pennsylvania

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 56, number 2 (1952), p. 21-34Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.56

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Orange street

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Author: Reninger, Marion Wallace,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Call Number: 974.815 LACI R413o

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Responsibility: Marion Wallace Reninger.

Author: Reninger, Marion Wallace,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Rudisill & co.,

Date of Publication: 1954.

Physical Description: 82 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents: Chapters : " Panorama " --- " Peggy Shippen " --- " Properties " --- "Processions " --- " Presidential Romance " --- " People " --- "Prisoner and Counterfeiter " --- " Philanthropists "

Summary: The book is written about an old street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on which many historic and interesting events took place - from before the Revolutionary War up to the present time. This series of sketches recounts stories of national interest as well as local tradition. [from the foreward]

Subjects: Kepler family.; North family.; Shand family.; Kendig, William.; Arnold, Margaret Shippen; Shippen family.; Passmore, John.; Andre, John.; Marshall, Christopher.; Coleman, Ann; Jacobs, William.; Reilly, Richard M.; Smith, Amos Herr.; Henry, Ann Wood.; Stevens, Thaddeus; Buchanan, James; Hensel, W. U.; Rettew, Mary; Long, Catherine.; Williamson, Henry S.; Watt, Peter T.; Orange Street (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster (Pa.) - Streets.; Memoirs.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACI R413o

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Faith and works at Middle Octorara since 1727 : a history of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, R.D. 3, Quarryville, Pa. Edited by Sanders P. McComsey

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Author: McElwain, Madison E.

Date of Publication: 1956]

Call Number: 285.1 M627 index

Alternate Title: Middle Octorara presbyterian cemeteries old and new, United Presbyterian 1717, taken from Faith and Works by Madison E. McElwain, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Penna.

Author: McElwain, Madison E.

Place of Publication: [Manheim? Pa

Date of Publication: 1956]

Physical Description: 582 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Library has a photocopy of the cemetery abstract (p. 451-581) with index added locally,and an updated abstract incorporating new graves (no date).

Subjects: Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church (Quarryville, Pa.); Presbyterian Church - Pennsylvania.; Registers of birth, etc., Lancaster County, Pa.; Bart (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 285.1 M627 index

Baptismal records of Jerusalem Lutheran and Reformed Church, Berks County, Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: Jerusalem Lutheran and Reformed Church (Kempton, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1959.

Call Number: 974.816 J56

Responsibility: by John L. Kistler.

Corporate Author: Jerusalem Lutheran and Reformed Church (Kempton, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: National Genealogical Society,

Date of Publication: 1959.

Physical Description: 62 p. ; 26 cm.

Series: Special publications of the National Genealogical Society ;

Notes: Transcribed from the church's 1st record book, Jan. 24, 1768-Feb. 14, 1863.; "Reprinted from the National Genealogical Society quarterly."

Subjects: Jerusalem Lutheran and Reformed Church (Kempton, Pa.); Baptismal records - Pennsylvania - Kempton.; Berks County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Lehigh County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Kistler, John L.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 J56

150 Years at Eastland

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Author: Shortlidge, Helen W.

Date of Publication: 1954

Call Number: 289.6 E13

Responsibility: by Helen W. Shortlidge

Author: Shortlidge, Helen W.

Place of Publication: Typescript

Date of Publication: 1954

Physical Description: 9 p. : 29 cm.

Notes: Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County"page 258 # 1.; Bound with: Extracts from the Nottingham Monthly minutes concerning Eastland Meeting; Eastland Names: Names of Persons connected with Eastland with date of first appearance in the Men's Minutes; Officers of East[l]and Preparative Meeting 1803-1954; Information from the Minutes of Eastland Preparative Meeting and Little Britain Monthly Meeting on the Buckingham School in Little Britain Township; Marriages at Eastland under the care of Nottingham Monthly Meeting; and Marriages at Eastland under the care of Little Britain Monthly Meeting.

Subjects: Nottingham Monthly Meeting; Little Britain Monthly Meeting (Lancaster County, Pa.); Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Genealogy

Location: Lancaster History Library - Church Record

Call Number: 289.6 E13

Certification of the Adams - Musser towns area for redevelopment

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Corporate Author: Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1958.

Call Number: 307.1 L244ca

Responsibility: Lancaster City Planning Commission.

Corporate Author: Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: The Commission,

Date of Publication: 1958.

Physical Description: 10 p. ; 28 cm.

Series: Lancaster City Planning Commission (Pa.)

Subjects: Urban renewal - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Community development - Lancaster (City), Pa.; Housing - Lancaster (City), Pa.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Urban renewal.; Adams Town Area - Lancaster (City), Pa.; Musser Town Area - Lancaster (City), Pa.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 307.1 L244ca

The Heindel (Heindle, Haindel, Hindel, Heindell) family of Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Knipe, James Lloyd.

Date of Publication: 1953.

Call Number: Drawer 1, sec. 2: #31

Responsibility: James Lloyd Knipe.

Author: Knipe, James Lloyd.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1953.

Physical Description: 1 reel , 35 mm.; 571 leaves

Notes: Typescript.; Includes index.

Subjects: Heindel family.; Heindel, John, - d.1785 - Family.; Bricker family; Frey family; Hindal family; Kauffman family; Miller family; Rohrbaugh family; Smith family; Snyder family; Strayer family; Williams family; Windsor (Pa.) - Genealogy.; York County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 1, sec. 2: #31

The law in Judge Jasper Yeates's library

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Author: Rengier, John B.

Date of Publication: 1958.

Law School. He was admitted to the Bar of Lancaster County in 1936, and is associated with the law firm of Rengier and Musser. His numerous civic responsibilities include serving as president of The James Buchanan Founda- tion for the Preservation of Wheatland, secretary of the Lancaster Heart

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Responsibility: by John Rengier.

Author: Rengier, John B.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1958.

Physical Description: 96-108 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 62, no. 2

Subjects: Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.; Yeates Colonial Law Library (Lancaster, Pa.); Law libraries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 62, number 2 (1958), p. 96-108Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.62

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Old time heroes of the war of the revolution and war of 1812-14

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Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Call Number: 282 475

Author: Sener, Samuel Miller,

Place of Publication: Harrisburg

Publisher: Harrisburg Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1895.

Physical Description: 11 p. 25 x 22 cm.

Notes: Compiler's name on p. [3].; " ... Lancaster County pensioners of the revolutionary and 1812 wars", also "Pensioners of other wars", and "Land warrants."; Bound with other pamphlets by the author: The Catholic Church at Lancaster, Penn'a (1894, 52 p.) -- Historical sketch of the ancient parish of St. Mary's, Lancaster, Pa. (n. d., 12 p) -- Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster (n. d., 5 p.) -- Some Lancaster Catholics, adn other historical notes (n.d ., 6 p.) -- Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, V. G. Sketch of one of the pioneer priest's [sic] of Pennsylvania (n. d. 10 p.) -- The Acadians in Lancaster County, Paper read before Lancaster County Historical Society, September 4, 1896 (1896, 8 p.) -- Simon S. Rathvon, Ph.D: Lancaster's oldest living devotee of science (n. d. 8 p.) -- Old time heroes of the War of the Revolution and War of 182-14 (1895, 11 p.) -- The Lancaster barracks where the British and Hesian prisoners were detained during the Revolution (1895, 20 p.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy - Sources.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 282 475

A history of Ream's cemetery : also known locally as Reddig's cemetery

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Author: Lesher, Paul S.

Date of Publication: 1957.

Call Number: 310.35 R288L

Author: Lesher, Paul S.

Place of Publication: Reamstown, Pa

Publisher: N.p.,

Date of Publication: 1957.

Physical Description: 16 p. : map ; 31 cm.

Notes: Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County", p. 115, #18.

Subjects: Ream family.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.35 R288L

The Tanger-Metzger genealogy, with a record of the descendants of John and Catharine (Metzger) Tanger, 1773-1950, and data on the Lottmann, Rudisill, Snavely, Hess, Harnish, Zercher, and Gall families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6048

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Date of Publication: 1955.

Call Number: 929 T164w

Author: Weiser, Frederick Sheely,

Place of Publication: Gettysburg, Pa

Date of Publication: 1955.

Physical Description: 90 p. illus. 24 cm.

Subjects: Tanger family.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 T164w

Williams' Lancaster city and county directory for 1890 : containing a general directory of Lancaster city, of the boroughs and townships of the county

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Date of Publication: 1890

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1890 reprint

Responsibility: compiled and published by J.E. Williams

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: New Era Book and Job Print ;

Date of Publication: 1890

Physical Description: 6-616 p. : bill. : 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Reprint from original.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Directories.; Adamstown (Pa.) - Directories; Columbia (Pa.) - Directories; Elizabethtown (Pa.) - Directories; Lititz (Pa.) - Directories; Manheim (Pa.) - DIrectories; Marietta (Pa. ) - Directories; Mount Joy (Pa.) - Directories; Strasburg (Pa.) - Directories; Washington Boro (Pa.) - Directories

Additional Author: Williams, J.E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1890 reprint

[Williams' Lancaster city and county directory for 1892]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18010

Date of Publication: 1892]

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1892c reprint

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: New Era Book and Job Print ;

Date of Publication: 1892]

Physical Description: 225 - 614 p. : ill. : 28 cm.

Notes: Includes index.; Reprint of original.; Missing pages 1-225, most of the Lancaster city portion of the directory.

Subjects: Lancaster (Pa.) - Directories; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Directories; Adamstown (Pa.) - Directories; Columbia (Pa.) - Directories; Lititz (Pa.) - Directories; Manheim (Pa.) - Directories; Marietta (Pa.) - Directories; Mount Joy (Pa.) - Directories; Strasburg (Pa.) - Directories; Washington Boro (Pa.) - Directories

Additional Author: Williams, J. E.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 917.4815 D598 1892c reprint

A history of the Garden Spot High School area

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Date of Publication: 1958

Call Number: 975.815 EARL H674

Responsibility: by the Garden Spot Chapter Pennsylvania Federation of Junior Historians

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.] ;

Date of Publication: 1958

Physical Description: 27 p. ; 15 cm.

Notes: Includes advertising

Subjects: Pennsylvania Federation of Junior Historians; New Holland (Pa.) - History; Terre Hill (Pa.) - History; Brecknock Township - Lancaster County, Pa. - History; Caernarvon Township - Lancaster County, Pa. - History; Earl Township - Lancaster County, Pa. - History

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.815 EARL H674

The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4405

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1897

. 1829. Boquet, or Ladies' Library Portfolio Keepsake. Anti-Masonic Opponent. 1830. Lancaster Examiner. Lancaster Beobachter. 1831. Lancaster Republican. Standard of Liberty, and Lancaster County Democrat and Public Advertiser. 1833. The Inciter. 1834. The Lancaster Register. Lancaster Union. 1835. The

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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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Wheatland centennial celebration : commemorating the 100th anniversary of the election of James Buchanan 15th president of the United States 1856-1956

Wheatland, 1848-1868; the home of James Buchanan

Marked graves

Lancaster County Papers

One hundred and thirty and three years : sketch of the Reformed Church of Maytown, Pennsylvania

James Buchanan, "Big wheel" of the railroads

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Orange street

Websites

Faith and works at Middle Octorara since 1727 : a history of Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, R.D. 3, Quarryville, Pa. Edited by Sanders P. McComsey

Baptismal records of Jerusalem Lutheran and Reformed Church, Berks County, Pennsylvania

150 Years at Eastland

Certification of the Adams - Musser towns area for redevelopment

The Heindel (Heindle, Haindel, Hindel, Heindell) family of Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania

The law in Judge Jasper Yeates's library

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Old time heroes of the war of the revolution and war of 1812-14

A history of Ream's cemetery : also known locally as Reddig's cemetery

The Tanger-Metzger genealogy, with a record of the descendants of John and Catharine (Metzger) Tanger, 1773-1950, and data on the Lottmann, Rudisill, Snavely, Hess, Harnish, Zercher, and Gall families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Williams' Lancaster city and county directory for 1890 : containing a general directory of Lancaster city, of the boroughs and townships of the county

[Williams' Lancaster city and county directory for 1892]

A history of the Garden Spot High School area

The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County

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