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A Mennonite woman's life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22337
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Date of Publication
c1993.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Ruth Hershey (1895-1990), photographer ; Phyllis Pellman Good, author ; photographs selected and printed by Edwin P. Huddle, a grandson of Ruth Hershey.
ISBN
1561480967 :
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Place of Publication
Intercourse, PA
Publisher
Good Books,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
91 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Hershey, Ruth, - 1895-1990.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Hershey, Ruth,
Huddle, Edwin P.
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A Mennonite woman's life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22338
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Date of Publication
c1993.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Ruth Hershey (1895-1990), photographer ; Phyllis Pellman Good, author ; photographs selected and printed by Edwin P. Huddle, a grandson of Ruth Hershey.
ISBN
1561480967 :
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Place of Publication
Intercourse, PA
Publisher
Good Books,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
91 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Hershey, Ruth, - 1895-1990.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Hershey, Ruth,
Huddle, Edwin P.
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A Mennonite woman's life

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22339
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Call Number
289.7 G66 1993
  1 website  
Responsibility
Ruth Hershey (1895-1990), photographer ; Phyllis Pellman Good, author ; photographs selected and printed by Edwin P. Huddle, a grandson of Ruth Hershey.
ISBN
1561480967 :
Author
Good, Phyllis Pellman,
Place of Publication
Intercourse, PA
Publisher
Good Books,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
91 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Hershey, Ruth, - 1895-1990.
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Hershey, Ruth,
Huddle, Edwin P.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
289.7 G66 1993
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Pre-Revolutionary slate gravestones in southern Lancaster County : a lasting legacy of the earliest Scots-Irish settlers

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Author
Gerhart, James M.
Date of Publication
2013.
  1 website  
Responsibility
James M. Gerhart.
Author
Gerhart, James M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
pp. 120-144.
Notes
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 98 #5.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 97 #1A.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 186 #1A.
Subjects
Bigham, William.
Carmichael Cemetery, (Fulton Township, Pa.)
Morrison Cemetery, (Drumore Township, Pa).
Chestnut Level Cemetery, (Drumore Township, Pa).
Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Scots-Irish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Slate industry - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Stone-cutters - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Drumore (Pa. : Township) - Cemeteries
Fulton (Pa. : Township) - Cemeteries.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 114, number 3 (2013), p. 120-144Lancaster History Library - Journal974.8 245 v 114
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Short sketches of the president judges of Lancaster County whose portraits have been placed in the county court house, by Hon. Charles I. Landis

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Author
Landis, Charles I.
Date of Publication
1913.
Call Number
343.334 L257
  1 website  
Author
Landis, Charles I.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New era Print. Co.,
Date of Publication
1913.
Physical Description
20 p. 24 cm.
Notes
Rebound in one-quarter brown leather and linen with marbled end papers.
Rebound with original letters from the judges, signatures cut from other documents affixed under photrographs of the judges, inerspersed photograms and engravings taken from other texts.
With: History of the District Court of the city and county of Lancaster / Charles I Landis. Lancaster, Pa. : The New Era Printing Company, 1914.
Subjects
Judges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
343.334 L257
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A biographical history of Lancaster County: being a history of early settlers and eminent men of the county; as also much other unpublished historical information, chiefly of a local character

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Author
Harris, Alexander,
Date of Publication
1974.
Call Number
920 H313 1977
  1 website  
ISBN
0806305908
9780806305905
Author
Harris, Alexander,
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Genealogical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1974.
Physical Description
638 p. 23 cm.
Notes
Reprint of the 1872 ed. published by E. Barr, Lancaster, Pa.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
920 H313 1977
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Index [of] Lancaster County Mss. [Miscellaneous] [Papers] : 1724-1772

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Call Number
016 I38 Oversize
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Index of Lancaster County Miscellaneous Papers, 1724-1772.
Physical Description
Photocopies ; 37 cm.
Notes
For microfilm copy of materials indexed, see microfilm #245, part 1 in 2 volumes. Table of contents with each volume.
Subjects
Blunston, Samuel, - 1689-1745.
Court records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster - Indexes.
Taxation - Lists.
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Paxton Boys.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Occupations.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Boundaries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
016 I38 Oversize
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Presbyterian Church Records- Middle Octorara, Bart Twp: [Church records 1796-1827 including membership list, accounts and minutes]

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Corporate Author
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Call Number
Drawer 2, sec. 5: #382
  2 websites  
Alternate Title
Presbyterian Church Records- Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Corporate Author
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Physical Description
1 reel , 35 mm.
Notes
Membership list
Subscription accts, 1816-1823
Treasurer's accts, 1815-1827
Trustees' minutes, 1796-1822
Labeled on box #382.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 43, #1.
Subjects
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Bart (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 2, sec. 5: #382
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Immigrant and entrepreneur : the Atlantic world of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750

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Author
Beiler, Rosalind J.,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Call Number
974.8 B422
  1 website  
Responsibility
Rosalind J. Beiler.
ISBN
9780271033723 (cloth : alk. paper)
027103372X (cloth : alk. paper)
Author
Beiler, Rosalind J.,
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Physical Description
xii, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Max Kade German-American Research Institute series
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-199) and index.
Contents
Men in the middle : foresters and hunters in the early modern Palatinate -- Individual pursuits versus the common good : the constraints of village life in Waldhilsbach -- Contested identities : religious affiliation and diversity in the Palatinate -- Leaving home : the decision to emigrate -- Establishing professional and family connections : new beginnings in Pennsylvania -- Securing a legacy : Wistar's Pennsylvania land speculation -- Webs of influence : transatlantic trade and patronage -- Creative adaptations : the United Glass Company and Wistarburg, New Jersey.
Summary
"Examines the life of 18th century German immigrant and businessman Caspar Wistar. Reevaluates the modern understanding of the entrepreneurial ideal and the immigrant experience in the colonial era"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Wistar, Caspar, - 1696-1752.
Germans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region - Biography.
Immigrants - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region - Biography.
Merchants - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Region - Biography.
Immigrants - Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) - Biography.
Palatinate (Germany) - Biography.
Pennsylvania - Emigration and immigration - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8 B422
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Lancaster's golden century, 1821-1921; a chronicle of men and women who planned and toiled to build a city strong and beautiful

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Author
Klein, H. M. J.
Date of Publication
1921.
Call Number
974.815 LACO K64
  1 website  
Responsibility
written and comp. by H.M.J. Klein ...
Author
Klein, H. M. J.
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
Hager and Bro.,
Date of Publication
1921.
Physical Description
3 p. ø., 130 p. illus., pl., ports. 19 cm.
Notes
"To commemorate one hundred years of the house of Hager, April, 1921."
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Hager & Brother, Lancaster, Pa.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO K64
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Lancaster's heritage: An historical preservation study for Lancaster County

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Corporate Author
Lancaster County Planning Commission.
Date of Publication
1972.
Call Number
720.9 L244
  1 website  
Corporate Author
Lancaster County Planning Commission.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
The Commission,
Date of Publication
1972.
Physical Description
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., folded map ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes detailed inventory of sites and structures.
This report presents the case for the preservation of the architectural and environmental aspects of this heritage in a balanced, planned relationship with continued contemporary development. Information is offered concerning the County's resources, the dangers to historic areas, and the possibilities for action. While individual County landmarks do deserve additional attention, the primary emphasis within this report is on the overall character of Lancaster's environmental heritage and the need for its preservation. The natural beauty of our rural areas and the pervasive historic character of many of our older communities are among Lancaster County's basic assets.
This study was updated in 1985 by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County. The update's title is "Our present past: An update of Lancaster's Heritage" and can be found in our collection. The author of the update is "Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County".
Bibliography: p. 9-1]-9-2.
Subjects
Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Historic sites - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
720.9 L244
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Following the drum : women at the Valley Forge encampment

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Author
Loane, Nancy K.,
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
©2009.
Call Number
973.334 L795
  1 website  
Responsibility
Nancy K. Loane.
ISBN
9781597973854
1597973858
Author
Loane, Nancy K.,
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
Potomac Books,
Date of Publication
©2009.
Physical Description
x, 205 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.
Contents
Setting the stage : the war, army, and community -- Martha Washington at Valley Forge : "the worthy partner of the worthiest of men" -- Martha Washington at the other encampments : a resolute and loyal lady -- Catharine Greene and Lucy Knox : the ladies come to Valley Forge -- Rebekah Biddle, Lady Stirling, and Alice Shippen at Valley Forge : "I should not be sorry to see you here" -- The women with Washington's "family" : slaves, servants, and spies -- Camp women at Valley Forge : "a caravan of wild beasts" -- Camp women with the Continental Army : cannonballs and cooking kettles -- The general returns to Valley Forge : a distinguished officer's musings -- Appendix: Making the myth of Martha Washington : nineteenth-century fantasy vs. eighteenth-century reality.
Summary
"[This book] tells the story of the forgotten women who spent the winter of 1777-78 with the Continental Army at Valley Forge -- from those on society's lowest rungs to ladies of the upper echelon. Poor, dirty beings who clung to the very edge of survival, many camp women were soldiers' wives who worked as the army's washerwomen, nurses, cooks, or seamstresses. Though these women's written correspondence is scarce, author Nancy Loane uses sources such as issued military orders, pension depositions after the war, and soldiers' descriptions to bring these women to life. Other women at the encampment were of higher status: they traveled with Washington's entourage when the army headquarters shifted from place to place and served the general as valued cooks, laundresses, or housekeepers ... Drawing from diary entries and letters, Following the drum illuminates the experiences of these ladies, including Martha Washington, Lucy Knox, and Lady Stirling, during the encampment and then traces their lives after the Revolutionary War"--Jacket.
Subjects
Washington, George, - 1732-1799.
Washington, George, - 1732-1799 - Headquarters - Pennsylvania - Valley Forge.
Women - Pennsylvania - Valley Forge
Women - Pennsylvania - Valley Forge - Biography.
Women - United States - Biography.
Armed Forces
Women.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, Female.
Pennsylvania - Valley Forge.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Women.
United States.
Valley Forge (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Biography.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.334 L795
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Physical and industrial geography of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, by H. Justin Roddy

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Author
Roddy, H. Justin
Date of Publication
1916.
Call Number
917.4815 R686
  1 website  
Author
Roddy, H. Justin
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New era printing company,
Date of Publication
1916.
Physical Description
vi, 113 p. illus., pl., fold. maps, diagr. 24 cm.
Subjects
Physical geography - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Economic conditions.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Industries.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
917.4815 R686
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The ambitions of William Henry

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Author
Gordon, Scott Paul.
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Scott Paul Gordon.
Author
Gordon, Scott Paul.
Physical Description
p. 254-284.
Notes
This record provides a link to this resource on the publisher's official online repository.
Summary
HISTORIANS HAVE TRAPPED William Henry of Lancaster (1729–86) in the identity of gunsmith. Though meant as a compliment— most accounts portray Henry as the most important gunsmith in the "rifle-making hub of colonial America," Lancaster County— - this confinement is ironic, since Henry escaped this occupation as soon as he was able. The term gunsmith, then as now, could describe men who repaired guns, who produced specialized gun parts (such as barrels or locks), who created an entire gun from scratch (lock, stock, and barrel), or who ran a factory that employed other men. Henry seems not to have engaged in any of these activities after 1760. By the last decade of his life, Henry had achieved a level of financial security (and apparently embodied the virtuous independence thought to derive from it) that led his peers to entrust him with positions of responsibility and that left Henry free to accept them. He served first in local and state governments and was later appointed an administrator and financier for the Continental army and elected twice to the Continental Congress. We have failed to register the shape of his career, the magnitude of his transformation; instead, historians have imagined that during all these varied activities, Henry continued to work as a gunsmith. Indeed, the belief that Henry "was engaged in the manufacture of firearms for over thirty years," that he produced the rifles or muskets carried by soldiers from the French and Indian War through the Revolution, has been central to stories about him. [abstract]
Subjects
Henry, William, - 1729-1786.
Simon, Joseph, - 1712-1804.
Gunsmiths - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Contained In
The Pennsylvania Magazine orf History and Biography, v. 136, no. 3.Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v. 136, no.3.
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Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution : at "Indian Rock", Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday P.M., September 20, cmmxii

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Date of Publication
1912.
Call Number
923.5 H236c
  1 website  
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
s.l.]
Date of Publication
1912.
Physical Description
8 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Notes
Order of exercises and songs laid in.
Summary
Program from the ceremony to commemorate Lancaster County's involvement in the American Revolution. The order of events in the ceremony is included. Also includes a chronology of Lancaster County's participation in events related to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, citing General Edward Hand's activities. A genealogy of the Hand family is included in the program.
Subjects
Hand, Edward , - 1744-1802.
Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.)
Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 H236c
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Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church Records, Bart Twp, 1796-1905: [Including primary Sunday school rolls, pew rents, treasurer's accounts, subscriptions and trustees minutes for various dates]

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Corporate Author
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Call Number
Drawer 2, sec. 5: #385
  2 websites  
Corporate Author
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
Physical Description
1 reel , 35 mm.
Notes
Primary Sunday School Roll Bk, 1898-1905
Records, 1847-1850- Pew rents, map/woodland/Bart Twp, treasurer's account
Records, 1837-1850- Pew rents, treasurer's acct., salary receipt
Labeled on box #385.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 43, #1.
Subjects
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 2, sec. 5: #385
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Middle Octorara Presbyterian, Bart Township: [Church records including session minutes 1847-1874, members, admissions and dismissals 1847-1873, baptisms 1848-1859, deaths 1848-1859 and cemetery lot sales 1882-1894]

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16420
Corporate Author
Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pa
Call Number
Drawer 2, sec. 5: #384
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Elizabeth Furnace Plantation Site : Archaeological information from the website of the Archaeology program at Millersville University

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Author
Millersville University.
Date of Publication
n.d.
Call Number
672 M646
. Heiges, 1937. (pg: 20) 16 - Heiges, George L. Henry William Stiegel: The Life Story of a Famous American Glass-Maker. Manheim (Pa): George L. Heiges, 1937. (pg: 16) 17 -The Coleman Papers, Lancaster County Historical Society, Coleman Elizabeth Furnace Ledger 1780, March 17, 1780, pg. 187 Beck, Herbert
  1 document     1 website  
Author
Millersville University.
Place of Publication
Millersville, PA
Publisher
Millersville University
Date of Publication
n.d.
Subjects
Elizabeth Furnace Plantation (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Iron industry and trade - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Excavations - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
672 M646
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Elizabeth_Furnace_Plantation_Site-Millersville_Archaeology.pdf

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Date of Publication
2005.
Call Number
974.815 COLU W953
  1 website  
ISBN
0974420271 (slipcase for both v. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Columbia, Pa
Publisher
Von Hess Foundation, in association with Antique Collectors' Club, Wappingers Falls, NY
Date of Publication
2005.
Physical Description
2 v. ill. 30 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
[1] The house / Elizabeth Meg Schaefer -- [2] The collection / Elizabeth Meg Schaefer ... [et al.].
Subjects
Wright, Susanna, - 1697-1784 - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Wright family - Homes and haunts - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Wright's Ferry Mansion (Columbia, Pa.)
Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Decorative arts, Early American - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Columbia (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Columbia (Pa.) - Biography.
Columbia (Pa.) - History - Sources.
Additional Author
Schaefer, Elizabeth Meg.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 COLU W953
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