compiled by workers of the Lancaster County unit of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Pennsylvania. Statewide sponsor, Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction.
The oldest inhabitants of the Bowmansville area -- Mennonite pioneers -- Reformed and Lutheran settlers -- A Mennonite congregation emerges -- Samuel Bowman, the founder -- The school fight produces a new Mennonite congregation -- The Yellow Hill Community (Brushtown) -- The Musselman family -- Rocks in the Bowmansville hills -- The 1884 robbery -- St. Paul's Lutheran and Reformed Church -- A famous printing press -- Hosteling comes to Bowmansville -- A twentieth century pioneer.