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Collection: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Title: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Object ID: MG0217

Date Range: 1809-1843

Slaymaker, Samuel Varle, Charles Wilson, Edward Wilson, Thomas A. Witmer, A. Wright, William Wolcott, John Subject Headings: Bridges Business records Columbia (Pa.) Letters Minutes (Records) Stockholders Stocks Susquehanna River �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633

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Collection: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Title: Columbia Bridge Company Collection

Description: The Columbia Bridge Company Collection is a valuable source of information concerning construction of bridges in the early 1800s. Documents concern the building of the first two bridges across the Susquehanna River in 1814 and 1832. Items in the collection include minutes, form for stock certificate, invoices, legal papers, proposals, receipts, stockholders, promissory notes, by-laws, settlement of stage tolls with Samuel Slaymaker 1813, salary receipts, circulars and announcements, bridge tolls, orders for payment, correspondence, and a stock certificate from 1842

Admin/Biographical History: First Bridge; Construction of the first Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge was begun in 1812 and completed December 5, 1814, by J. Wolcott, H. Slaymaker, S. Slaymaker at a total cost of $231,771, which was underwritten by the newly formed Columbia Bank and Bridge Company. The bridge was 5,690 feet (1,730 m) long and 30 feet (9.1 m) wide and had 54 piers and twin carriageways. Constructed of wood and stone, the covered bridge also included a wooden roof, a whitewashed interior and openings in its wooden sides to view the river and surrounding areas. It was considered the longest covered bridge in the world at the time. The bridge accommodated east-west traffic across the Susquehanna River for 14 years before being destroyed by ice, high water and severe weather on February 5, 1832.; Second bridge; Construction of the second Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, also covered, started mid-1832 and was completed in 1834 (opening on July 8, 1834) by James Moore and John Evans at a cost of $157,300. It was 5,620 feet (1,710 m) long and 28 feet (8.5 m) wide and also enjoyed the distinction of being the world's longest covered bridge. The wood and stone structure had 27 piers, a carriageway, walkway, and two towpaths to guide canal traffic across the river. Much of the mostly oak timber used in its construction was salvaged from the previous bridge. Its roof was covered with shingles, its sides with weatherboard, and its interior was whitewashed. The structure was modified in 1840 by the Canal Company at a cost of $40,000 concurrent with the construction of the Wrightsville Dam. Towpaths of different levels and with sidewalls were added to prevent horses from falling into river, as happened several times when the river flooded. The roof of the lower path formed the floor of upper path. In this way, canal boats were towed across the river from the Pennsylvania Canal on the Columbia side to the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal at Wrightsville. Sometime after 1846, a double-track railway was added, linking the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad to the Northern Central Railway. Due to fear of fire caused by locomotives, rail cars were pulled across the bridge by teams of mules or horses.; Information from "Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%E2%80%93Wrightsville_Bridge. Accessed 3 February 2020.

System of Arrangement: The papers of the First Columbia Bridge built in 1814 are filed in folders #1 to 157. The papers of the Second Columbia Bridge built in 1832 are filed in folders #158 to 181.

Date Range: 1809-1843

Year Range From: 1809

Year Range To: 1843

Date of Accumulation: 1809-1843

Creator: Goodell, Robert Hilliard, 1899-1992.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 05

People: Albright, William; Chew, Benjamin; Coleman, Robert; Dickson, William; Gilpin, Joshua; Gilpin, Thomas; Grimler, Benjamin; Haldeman, C.; Hamilton, William; Harbaugh, Leonard; Hoff, John; Hopkins, James; Hubley, John; Hubley, Joseph; Lloyd, Evan; Mifflin, Joseph; Poulson, Zachariah; Reynolds, John; Rittenhouse, Joseph; Shaffner, Casper; Slaymaker, Henry; Slaymaker, Samuel; Varle, Charles; Wilson, Edward; Wilson, Thomas A.; Witmer, A.; Wright, William; Wolcott, John

Subjects: Bridges; Business records; Columbia (Pa.); Letters; Minutes (Records); Stockholders; Stocks; Susquehanna River

Search Terms: Advertising; Applications; Board of Directors; Bonds; Bridges; Broadsides; Business records; By-laws; Checks; Columbia; Columbia Bridge Company; Construction; Contracts; Correspondence; Farmers Bank of Lancaster; Financial records; Finding aids; Gatekeepers; Invoices; Letters; Loans; Manuscript groups; Minutes; Murray Draper and Company; Promissory notes; Receipts; Reports; Salaries; Stockholders; Stocks; Susquehanna River; Taxes; Tollhouses; Tolls

Extent: 5 boxes, 190 folders, 3 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0217

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. The original items in Folder 69 may not be used due to their fragile condition. All other original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-217

Classification: MG0217

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 13 January 2022.

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Badge, Membership

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Collection: History Collection: Groups & Organizations, Freemasons

Object ID: 2003.016.13

Date Range: September 2, 1863

Collection: History Collection: Groups & Organizations, Freemasons

Description: Masonic Badge/ Pendant Marked on face "Sam'l C Slaymaker," "Reading PA," "Lodge 62," "Sep 2 1863," Marked on back "Reading," "HR," "AC," "NO. 152"

Date Range: September 2, 1863

Year Range From: 1863

Year Range To: 1863

Storage Location: LCHS / Willson Memorial Building

Storage Room: Guild Vault

Storage Wall: A1

Storage Cabinet: Unit 03

Storage Shelf: Shelf 2

People: Slaymaker, Samuel C.

Subcategory: Personal Symbol

Object Name: Badge, Membership

Material: Gold

Height (in): 1.675

Width (in): 1

Condition: Good

Object ID: 2003.016.13

Accession Number: 2003.016

Badge, Military

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Collection: Military Collection

Object ID: 2003.016.17

Collection: Military Collection

Description: 2 - Dog tags on chains "Slaymaker, Samuel R," "13090415 T43 44 0," "P"

Storage Location: LCHS / Willson Memorial Building

Storage Room: Guild Vault

Storage Wall: South Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 01

Storage Shelf: DR15

People: Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker II

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Object Name: Badge, Military

Oither Names: Dog Tags

Material: Metal

Height (in): 1

Width (in): 2

Condition: Excellent

Object ID: 2003.016.17

Book, Account

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Collection: Gary Hawbaker's Collection of Business and Personal Record Books

Title: Joel and Thomas Smedley’s Prospect Mills account book B

Object ID: MG0963_F050

Date Range: 1833-1841

Collection: Gary Hawbaker's Collection of Business and Personal Record Books

Title: Joel and Thomas Smedley’s Prospect Mills account book B

Description: Joel and Thomas Smedley’s Prospect Mills account book B contains an index of clients and what pages they appear on, an itemized list of their profits and expenses, an index of sales and where they are found, and the employees of the mill and what they were being compensated for.. The profits list ranges from selling corn, wheat, bran, oats, and flour, as well as sawing boards and planks. The recorded expenses include purchases from a brickyard (pg. 102), Susquehanna Canal Company (122), and Deer Creek Iron Works Company (125). Other mill expenses include employee wages, lumber, and potatoes.

Admin/Biographical History: Joel Smedley was born in 1799 to parents Joseph Smedley and Rebecca Lewis Smedley. Joel married Martha Wildman and fathered six children including Charles, Mary, John, Lewis, Anne, and Ellwood. Joel inherited the mill from his father in 1833 and expanded it by building a sorghum factory. Joel died in 1872.

Date Range: 1833-1841

Creation Date: 1833-1841

Year Range From: 1833

Year Range To: 1841

Creator: Smedley, Joel, 1802-1872

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Wall: Side 12

Storage Container: Box 0010

People: Anderson, Allen; Baker, James; Bender, Nathaniel; Black, Adam; Black, Robert; Blackburn, Manassah; Brookings, Charles; Broomwell, Isaac; Brown, Jeremiah; Buckous, Samuel; Buckous, William; Caldwell, John; Chandler, Courtland; Clark, William; Clarke, Robert; Clarke, Samuel; Coates, Warrick; Connery, James; Cooper, Jeremiah; Cooper, John; Cooper, Lewis; Coulson, George; Crookshank, John; Dawson, Jacob; Ewing, Abraham; Furness, Gardner; Garrett, Evan; Gillespie, Ingram; Handshaw, Amos; Hawke, Jacob; Hilaman, Jacob; Hopkins, James; Irwin, James; Johnson, John; Johnson, Leynard; Johnson, Rankin; Kelly, Thomas; Kennedy, Edward; Kerr, Richard; King, John; King, Robert; Kirk, Jacob; Lancaster, John; Lawrence, Joseph; Logan, Jacob; Long, John; Maglaughlan, Parker; Marshall, Charles; Martin, James; Maxwell, Samuel; McDowel, Nelson; McDowel, Thomas; Miller, George; Moore, Jacob; Moore, Walker; Moore, William; Morrison, Samuel; Neal, Thomas; Null, Levi; Orr, George; Parker, James; Pennock, Simon; Penrose, Benjamin; Russel, John; Scott, David; Slaymaker, Samuel; Smedley, Eli; Smedley, Thomas; Steel, William; Stubbs, John; Stump, Herman; Swift, George; Swift, Joseph; Tennis, Israel; Trump, Michael; Tyson, Isaac; Way, Joseph; Wentz, Joseph; White, Alvin; White, Elisha; Whitson, Micah; Wilson, Samuel

Subjects: Buckwheat; Business Records; Corn; Gristmills; Mills and mill-work; Rye; Sawmills

Search Terms: Account books; Brickyards; Deer Creek Iron Works Company; Fulton Twp.; Gristmills; Mills; Prospect Mills; Sawmills; Susquehanna Canal Company

Extent: 1 item, 1-148 pages

Object Name: Book, Account

Language: English

Object ID: MG0963_F050

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennslyvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Box #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org for permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-963

Classification: MG0963

Description Level: Item

Bowl, Punch

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Collection: Decorative Arts Collection: Ceramics

Object ID: 1953.005

Date Range: 1780-1825

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Collection: Decorative Arts Collection: Ceramics

Description: Porcelain Punch bowl used in entertaining Lafayette in Lancaster in 1825 at Slaymaker's Hotel, 13-15 East King Street.

Date Range: 1780-1825

Year Range From: 1780

Year Range To: 1825

Collector: Donor was a granddaughter of Henry E. Slaymaker

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 31

Storage Shelf: Shelf 1

People: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de; Slaymaker, Samuel

Subcategory: Food Service T&E

Search Terms: Hotels; Punch bowls; Slaymaker's Hotel; Taverns

Object Name: Bowl, Punch

Material: Porcelain

Height (in): 3

Diameter (in): 15

Condition: Good

Condition Notes: Large repair in side. originally broken away in two pieces, repaired with metal staples.; Recommendation: Remove staples and repair with epoxy.

Object ID: 1953.005

Accession Number: 1953.005

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Captives' mansion

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Author: Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Date of Publication: [1973]

Call Number: 728.37 S631

Responsibility: [by] S. R. Slaymaker, II. Foreword by Sir Denis Brogan.

ISBN: 0060139234

Author: Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker,

Edition: [1st ed.]

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Harper & Row

Date of Publication: [1973]

Physical Description: xx, 220 p. illus. 25 cm.

Subjects: Slaymaker family.; White Chimneys (Gap, Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 S631

Carte-de-visite

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Collection: Slaymaker Family Photograph Collection

Object ID: SF-01-03-10

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Object Name: Carte-de-visite

Collection: Slaymaker Family Photograph Collection

Description: Lizzie Smith holding Samuel Slaymaker. Carte de visite.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Slaymaker, Samuel; Smith, Lizzie

Studio: Decamp & Crane

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Subject: African Americans

Search Terms: African American women; Babies; Boys; Persons of color; Portraits; Women

Object Name: Carte-de-visite

Print Size: 4.25 x 2.5 inches

Condition: Fair

Condition Date: photo has bits of black photo album paper stuck to back

Object ID: SF-01-03-10

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Case, Sales Sample

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Collection: History Collection: Person, Slaymaker Family

Object ID: 2003.016.1

Date Range: 1888

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Collection: History Collection: Person, Slaymaker Family

Description: A) Walnut dove-tailed case with hinged lid with bail handle. Hook and eye closure at front. Interior is divided into five slots, lined in purple velvet. Lid contains brown paper label written in cursive, "S.R. Slaymaker's / original sample case / 1888"; Contents includes 5 locks of varying sizes and styles with cutaways on 2 largest, several of them marked "Pat. 1888" (B-F) and 2 keys (G,H)

Date Range: 1888

Year Range From: 1888

Year Range To: 1888

Made By: Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker

Last Owner: Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: West Wall

Storage Cabinet: Unit 29

Storage Shelf: Shelf 4

People: Slaymaker, S. R.

Subcategory: Merchandising T&E

Search Terms: Locks

Object Name: Case, Sales Sample

Height (in): 5

Length (in): 6.75

Width (in): 2.5

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-06-18

Condition Notes: Case has minor marring, stains and soil. Back of case has adhesive residue in rectangular shape. Velvet has wear and fading. Locks have expected wear, esp. paint finish.

Object ID: 2003.016.1

Place of Origin: Lancaster

Usage: Slaymaker, Samuel Redsecker

Accession Number: 2003.016

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Badge, Military

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Book, Account

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Captives' mansion

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Carte-de-visite

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Case, Sales Sample

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