Contained in:Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society.Volume 85, number 4 (1981), p. 132-151Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.85
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
The data for this thesis is from information found in the 1815 direct tax.
91 tables include information on houses of each county, barns,distribution of land and wealth, domestic out buildings, milling activity, structures related to the production of alcoholic beverages, textile-related buildings, iron industry and structures related to the production of leather.
Provides a brief biography of Urban including architectural education. Synder takes umbrage with author of 1980 article [link to the record for the 1980 article at the bottom of this library record] in crediting Urban as an architect of certain buildings in Lancaster. According to this article, Urban was not the architect for the Woolworth building nor the architect for St Paul's Church, but he did served as a local consultant on the projects. Synder indicates that the former Fulton Bank on Penn Square has been attributed to Urban but that Urban had not claimed role of architect nor of consultant.
Bound with: The Settler's Farmstead: a compendium of information relating to properties in Manheim Township containing log dwellings / Susan Sharpless Messimer; summer internship report / Susan Sharpless Messimer.
