Page 22: "Wednesday, May 21, 1902 - Dining Party" - Windsor Forge, home of Miss Blanche Nevin; Crowd on lawn at Windsor Forge; Windsor Forge built 1735; Windsor forge dining room; Little Conestoga Creek near Windsor Forge; Dining room fireplace at Windsor Forge.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Black paper album in poor condition and several loose photographs of Kneisly family gravestones and family landmarks in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Compiled in the 1910s.
Jacob Landis Mill, . 5 mile north of Oreville, between East Hempfield and Manheim Townships. County maintained on road T-560, built in 1873, single span "King Post" construction, shortest bridge in County, length 53 feet.
Stoneroad's Mill covered bridge, formerly Kauffman's Mill, private bridge now owned by George Mann, one mile south of Maple Grove, another short bridge approximately 55 feet long.
Page 62: Along the Little Conestoga Creek, northeast of Manheim Pike, May 8, 1939.
Provenance
Album thought to belong to the family of Frank McMichael and his wife, Laura Sutter. They were orginally from the Quarryville area, but later moved to the city of Lancaster.
