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Lancaster County : the red rose of Pennsylvania

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1994.
Call Number
974.815 LACO L863L
974.815 LACO L863La
Responsibility
John Ward Willson Loose ; "Partners in Progress" by Gary G. Martin and Donald L. Collins.
ISBN
1884166032 :
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Canoga Park, CA
Publisher
CCA Publications,
Date of Publication
1994.
Physical Description
[6], 158 p.: ill., some col. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Chamber of Commerce (Lancaster, Pa.).
Lancaster County Historical Society (Lancaster, Pa.).
Lancasater Malleable Castings, Co. (Lancaster, Pa.).
J. Walter Miller Company (Lancaster, Pa.).
Raub Supply Company (Lancaster, Pa.).
Alumax Mill Products (Lancaster, Pa.).
High Industries, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).
Federal-Mogul Corporation (Lancaster, Pa.).
Serta Mattress Company (Lancaster, Pa.).
Cassey Engineering (Salunga, Pa.).
Lancaster Labratories (Lancaster, Pa.).
Ford New Holland (New Holland, Pa.).
Liberty Sign and Can Company (Lancastaear, Pa.).
J. L. Clark, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).
Simon Ladder Towers, Inc. (Leola, Pa.).
Lancaster Paint and Glass (Lancaster, Pa. ).
Wickersham Construction and Engineering, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).
SICO Company (Mt. Joy, Pa.).
Denver and Ephrata Telephone and Telegraph Company (Pa.).
Bank of Lancaster County (Pa.).
Fulton Bank (Lancaster, Pa).
CoreStates Hamilton Bank (Lancaster, Pa.)
Dauphin Deposit Bank (Pa.)
Ross, Buehler, Falk and Company (Pa.).
Community Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.).
Lancaster General Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.).
St. Joseph Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.)
Corporate Healthcare Strategies, Inc. (Pa.)
Warner-Lambert Company (Pa.).
Lancasater Bible College (Lancaster, Pa.).
Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.).
Acorn Press (Pa.).
Lancaster Newspapers (Lancaster, Pa.).
John Cope's Food Products (Pa.).
Dutch Gold Honey (Pa.).
Kellogg Company (Pa.).
Stauffers of Kissel Hill (Pa.).
Hammond Pretzel Bakery (Lancaster, Pa.).
Zimmerman Foods (Pa.).
Turkey Hill Dairy (Pa.).
Wilbur Chocolate Company (Lititz, Pa.)
Groff's Farm Restaurant (Pa.).
Hotel Brunswick (Lancaster, Pa.).
Eden Resort Inn (Lancaster, Pa.).
Bulova Technologies (Lancaster, Pa.)
Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO L863L
974.815 LACO L863La
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The ironmasters of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : including Henry Steigel, Robert Coleman, the Grubb dynasty, Henry Haldeman, Henry Watts, and many others

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Author
Martin, Richard E.
Date of Publication
[2014]
©2014
Call Number
672 M382
Responsibility
by Richard E. Martin.
ISBN
9780615967578
0615967574
Author
Martin, Richard E.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]
Morgantown, PA
Publisher
Richard E. Martin,
Printed by Masthof Press
Date of Publication
[2014]
©2014
Physical Description
vi, 193 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
Notes
"Over 120 illustrations."
Includes bibliographical references (171-172) and index.
Contents
Labor on the plantation -- Charcoal making -- Furnaces operation -- Refining the iron -- Lancaster furnaces -- Rolling mills -- Ironworks sequence -- The ironmasters -- Ore mines -- Preserved iron furnaces -- Paths and trails -- Fords and ferries.
Subjects
Stiegel, Henry William, - 1729-1785.
Coleman, Robert, - 1748-1825.
Coleman family.
Grubb family.
Haldeman, Henry B.
Haldeman family.
Watts, Henry.
Jacobs family.
Potts family.
Taylor family.
Watts family.
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Charcoal industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Iron and steel workers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
672 M382
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The Steinmans of Lancaster : a family and its enterprises

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Author
Brubaker, John H.
Date of Publication
c1984.
Call Number
929 S823b
Responsibility
John H. Brubaker, III.
ISBN
0961378204
Author
Brubaker, John H.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Steinman Enterprises,
Date of Publication
c1984.
Physical Description
xv, 219 p. : ill. (some col.), geneal. table ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
This is the family history of prominent civic leaders and industrial promoters of Lancaster. Steinman Enterprises in Lancaster have included hardware merchandising, cotton and iron manufacture, newspaper and commercial printing, radio, television and cable television.
Bibliography: p. 209-211.
Subjects
Steinman family.
Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
Publishers and publishing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Businesspeople - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 S823b
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Lancaster county Indians; annals of the Susquehannocks and other Indian tribes of the Susquehanna territory from about the year 1500 to 1763, the date of their extinction. An exhaustive and interesting series of historical papers descriptive of Lancaster county's Indians prior to and during the advent of the paleface

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Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Date of Publication
1908.
Call Number
974.8011 E75
Responsibility
by H. Frank Eshleman.
Author
Eshleman, Henry Frank,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Date of Publication
1908.
Physical Description
2 p. β., [3]-415 p. 23 cm.
Notes
LCHS copy inscribed by author.
Subjects
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Susquehanna Indians.
Conestoga Indians.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Antiquities
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8011 E75
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Report of the committee having in charge the marking of the site of the Postlethwaite Tavern where the first Courts of Justice in Lancaster County were held

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Date of Publication
1915
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE Having in Charge the Marking of the Site of the Postlethwaite Tavern Where the First Courts of Justice in Lancaster County Were Held To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to com- memorate, in a suitable manner
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Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1915
Physical Description
219-301 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 19, no. 8
Subjects
Postlethwaite, John.
Postlethwaite Tavern (Conestoga Township, Pa.)
Courts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Courthouses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Dedication services.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 19, number 8 (1915), p. 219-301Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.19
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Historical points of interest along the Strasburg trolley road

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Author
Franklin, Walter M.
Date of Publication
1903
perfumery works, Carbon steel casting works, the gas works, and the power plant of the Lancaster County' Rail- way and Light Company. Before reaching the Conestoga creek, we pass the site of the old Conestoga iron fur- nace, located on Hoffman's Run, built by Robert and James Colvin and George Ford, in 1846
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Responsibility
by Walter M. Franklin, Esq.
Author
Franklin, Walter M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1903
Physical Description
[3]-14 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 7, no. 1
Subjects
Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 7, number 1 (1903), p. 3-14Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.7
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The heritage of Lancaster

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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
[1978]
Call Number
974.815 LACO L863
Responsibility
by John Ward Willson Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Woodland Hills, Cal
Publisher
Windsor publications,
Date of Publication
[1978]
Physical Description
xi, 226 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Published under the sponsorship of the Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry.
Research provided by the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Subjects
Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster Association of Commerce and Industry.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO L863
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Author
Van Nest, Magaretta.
Date of Publication
1990?
Call Number
929 V266
Author
Van Nest, Magaretta.
Place of Publication
Carbon typescript
Date of Publication
1990?
Physical Description
14, [11] leaves ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Levi Henry Crouse and Mary Louise Worrest were married marh 7, 1843 at the ages 26 and 18 years in Paradise, Lancaster co [sic] Pa. by Rev., Edward y. Buchanan of the Epsicopal church [sic], a brother of the President James Buchanan. Our parents named their first born -- a boy for that minister, Edward Buchanan."
"Aunt Kate was a teacher for some time at Millersville, Pennsylvania Normal School. The school published a magazine entitles [sic] 'The Page Monthly.' Her intimate frind on the faculty was Rose Budd, who wrote an article for the magazine entitled 'Let me die in Autumn.' It was Clara's last school days that she choose [sic] that poem for her recitation. Her wich was granted when she passed away Sept. 1, 1860."
Subjects
Crouse family.
Agriculture - Pennsylvania - Chester County
Agriculture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Genealogy - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Genealogy - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Chester County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Chester County (Pa.) - Personal recollections.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Personal recollections.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 V266
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Churches of today and yesterday in southern Lancaster County

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Date of Publication
1968]
Call Number
200 D921

The best poor man's country; a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania

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Author
Lemon, James T.
Date of Publication
[1972]
Call Number
974.800912 L556
Responsibility
[by] James T. Lemon.
ISBN
0801811899
Author
Lemon, James T.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Johns Hopkins Press
Date of Publication
[1972]
Physical Description
xviii, 295 p. maps. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Land use - Pennsylvania.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Chester County (Pa.) - History.
Dauphin County (Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania - Social conditions.
Pennsylvania - Economic conditions.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.800912 L556
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Report of the historical tour, June 27, 1936

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Author
Tanger, Louise F. A.
Date of Publication
1936
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.40
Responsibility
by Louise F. A. Tanger.
Author
Tanger, Louise F. A.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1936
Physical Description
[50]-52 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 40, no. 3
Subjects
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.40
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Address of General Henry Shippen Huidekoper at the commencement exercises of the Shippen School For Girls of Lancaster, Pa. : June 6, 1916

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Author
Huidekoper, H. S.
Date of Publication
[1916]
Call Number
370 H899
Author
Huidekoper, H. S.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New Era Print. Co.,
Date of Publication
[1916]
Physical Description
16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Shippen School for Girls.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
370 H899
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Visit Lancaster County, Pa. home of the Pennsylvania Dutch, the "Garden Spot of America"

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Date of Publication
[n. d.].
Call Number
917.4815 L244h
Place of Publication
[S. l.]
Publisher
Pennsylvania Dutch tourist Bureau,
Date of Publication
[n. d.].
Physical Description
16 p. : ill. ; 14 x 21 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
917.4815 L244h
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The old home scene, Conestoga : a look back

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Author
Hess, Larry E.
Date of Publication
1976.
Call Number
974.815 CONE H586
Responsibility
by Larry E. Hess.
Author
Hess, Larry E.
Place of Publication
[Conestoga, Pa.?
Publisher
s.n.],
Date of Publication
1976.
Physical Description
60 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Click on Table of Contents for more information.
Contents
Reflection -- Early history -- Conestoga naviagation -- Iron works -- Colemanville Forge -- Match factory -- Railroad -- Magnetic ore mine -- Paper mill -- Dynamite factory -- Casket factory -- Mills -- Tobacco warehouse -- cigar manufacturers -- Hotels, taverns, innkeepers -- Stores -- Gunsmiths, tanyard, post office -- Transportation --Education -- Lodges and tribes -- General Reynolds Band -- Safe Harbor dam -- Do you remember -- Chronology.
Subjects
Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Conestoga (Pa.).
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Conestoga (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 CONE H586
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Runaways, rascals, and rogues : missing spouses, servants, and slaves ; abstracts from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, newspapers

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Date of Publication
c1987-
Call Number
911.2 H389
Responsibility
edited by Gary T. Hawbaker.
Place of Publication
Hershey, Pa. (P.O. Box 207, Hershey 17033)
Publisher
G.T. Hawbaker,
Date of Publication
c1987-
Physical Description
v. <1 > : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
v. 1. Lancaster journal, 1794-1810.
Subjects
Runaway husbands - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Runaway wives - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Indentured servants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Abstracts.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Hawbaker, Gary T.
Additional Title
Lancaster County journal.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
911.2 H389
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A brief history of the city of Lancaster; Containing an introduction to the settlement of the county; reminiscences of the past and present of the city; the poor house and hospital; the court house; the county jail; the water works; the railroad; the Franklin and Marshall College; the manufactories; the gas works and agricultural park; with many of the old "land marks," &c

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Author
Kilburn, Francis,
Date of Publication
1870.
Call Number
974.815 L244p 1870
Author
Kilburn, Francis,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Pearsol and Geist, printers,
Date of Publication
1870.
Physical Description
40 [2] p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Includes local business cards and advertisements.
Not in Wilkinson.
Subjects
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Commerce.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.815 L244p 1870
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"The wealth of years" : collecting and remembering Lancaster County; an exhibit at the Lancaster County Historical Society December 2000-June 2001

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14345
Date of Publication
2001.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society ,
Date of Publication
2001.
Physical Description
52-104 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society v.103, no.2.
Contents
From slavery to freedom--middle class African-Americans in Lancaster County (Hannah Bosley, William Whipper, Stephen Smith, Dinah McIntire)--Joseph Simon: Jewish merchant and philanthropist of the eighteenth century--Firefighting in early Lancaster--Family history at the Lancaster County Historical Society (Demuth family history)--Cooking in the County--Blanche Nevin--Lloyd Mifflin: artist and sonneteer--The bridge at Columbia--Ephrata Cloister--A distinguished military family (Henry A. Hambright)--A midwife (Susana Rohrer Mueller)--John Wise, balloonist (1808-1879)--Jasper Yeates, attorney and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice--Thaddeus Stevens--Robert Fulton, engineer and artist--"Gold!" (John Augustus Sutter)--George Washington--Oddities and the END.
Subjects
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - Exhibitions.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 103, number 2 (2001), p. 52-104Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.103, no.2
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The old Pequea Presbyterian graveyard

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1920
Pennsylvania Asso- ciators from Lancaster County.1 6 On December 8, 1777, he was appointed a first lieutenant of the Third Company, Seventh Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia commanded by Colonel John Boyd of Lancaster county, as the following com- mission now in possession of Miss Martha Bladen Clark, a lineal
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Responsibility
by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1920
Physical Description
39-51 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 2
Subjects
Hamilton, James, - 1710-1783.
Presbyterian Church Corporation of Pequea (Pa.)
Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 24, number 2 (1920), p. 39-51Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.24
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Quarryville in Lancaster County's "Southern End" : "where the race of men go by"

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Author
Roth, Mike.
Date of Publication
2014.
Call Number
974.815 QUAR R846
Responsibility
by Mike Roth and Stanley T. White ; edited by: Linda A. White and Marsha Stiles.
ISBN
9781495100079
1495100073
Author
Roth, Mike.
Place of Publication
Willow Street, PA
Publisher
Mike Roth and Stanley T. White, printed by Seaber Turner & Associates,
Date of Publication
2014.
Physical Description
546 p. : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm
Notes
Maps on endpapers.
Includes index.
Summary
"Book includes over 900 photos dating from the late 1800's to the current day. Each business or structure explores the original history from its beginning, right up to the current day occupants. This is the most complete history ever written about the Borough of Quarryville, in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A treasure-trove of genealogy, historical maps, black and white "period" photos, color photography, and more! Simply a "must have" for anyone with roots in that part of Pennsylvania"--Publisher's description.
Subjects
Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Quarryville (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
White, Stanley T.
Wjite, Linda A.
Stiles, Marsha.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 QUAR R846
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Peddlers and Indian traders license papers, 1722-1866, Chester County, Pennsylvania

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Author
Feehrer, Linda.
Call Number
905.29 GSP v.35
Responsibility
by Linda Feehrer and Jeffery Rollison.
Author
Feehrer, Linda.
Physical Description
283-290 p.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, v.35 (1987-1988).
Subjects
Indian traders - Pennsylvania
Peddlers and peddling - Pennsylvania
Chester County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Rollison, Jeffery.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.29 GSP v.35
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