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Flames across the Susquehanna

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10439

Author: Banner, Glenn S

Date of Publication: 1993.

Call Number: 813.54 B219

Responsibility: by Glenn S. Banner

Author: Banner, Glenn S

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: Brookshire Printing, Inc.

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: 260 [8] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[267-268]); Library copy signed by author.

Summary: This a novel set in 1863 in the Susquehanna River towns of Columbia on the east side and Wrightsville on the west side of a bridge that connected the two. The main event at that time was the burning of that bridge to prevent a Confederate army from entering eastern Pennsylvania . Another main event in the area at that time was the active protection of escaped slaves in the Underground Railroad. Both of these causes are addressed in the novel. The author states: "The main characters of the novel are fictional , but they became involved with persons who actually lived during the period, as well as with incidents which have been recorded in our country's history, several of them indelibly."

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fiction.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fiction.; Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 813.54 B219

[Historic American Engineering Record : Big Conestoga Creek Bridge, No. 12]

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Date of Publication: [1996]

Call Number: 624.2 H673c

Date of Publication: [1996]

Physical Description: 22 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Series: Historic American Engineering Record ; No. PA-500.

Notes: Draft copy.; Includes bibliographical references.

Summary: Documentation pertaining to significance of concrete Big Conestoga Creek Bridge, no. 12, built in 1917.

Subjects: Big Conestoga Creek Bridge #12 (West Earl: Pa. township).; Bridges - Pennsylvanaia - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 624.2 H673c

Keller's Covered Bridge and Middle Creek Road Bridge

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Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 624.2 K29

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: 2 reports : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Written historical and descriptive data and photographs [a state-level recordation, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Bureau for Historic Preservation.

Subjects: Bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Keller's Covered Bridge (Ephrata Twp., Lancaster County, Pa.); Middle Creek Road Bridge (Ephrata Twp., Lancaster County, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 624.2 K29

A prologue to the construction of the fifth Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge

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Author: Newcomer, L. W.

Date of Publication: 1971.

A Prologue to the Construction of the Fifth Columbia- Wrightsville Bridge by L. W. Newcomer Construction of the fifth Columbia-Wrightsville bridge across the Susquehanna River is described, and recorded for posterity, in the Journal of The Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1969

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Responsibility: by L. W. Newcomer.

Author: Newcomer, L. W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1971.

Physical Description: [119]-124 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 75, no. 3

Subjects: Bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Bridges; Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.) - Politics and government.; York County (Pa.) - Politics and government.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 75, number 3 (1971), p. 119-124Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.75