"This story explores the history of the Burkholder and Martin families who settled in the Weaverland Valley (Lancaster Co., Pa.) along the Conestoga River in the early 1700s. It is filled with 'voices from the past' whose words are especially meaningful as they are of a personal nature, coming from an ancestor of a person's lineage. Many landmarks and events that influenced these early families are explored and explained in a community where everyone knew everyone else." [from Amazon.com]
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 30.
Summary
The article focuses on a letter from Edward Shippen lll to his son, Edward Shippen lV (who would later become the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania). The letter contains advice on how to live a good and productive life both in business and family life.
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.
[prepared by] The Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley.
Edition
Limited ed.
Place of Publication
Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
The Historical Society of Cocalico Valley ; Printed by Science Press,
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
135 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series
Pictorial book of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ; 4
Notes
Limited ed. no. 1415.
LCHS has no.1420.
Summary
Includes " photographs of the tremendously diverse structures of the Cocalico Valley: area churches, schools, bridges, and businesses , plus the incomparable buildings of the Ephrata Cloister." [from the foreword]
