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Collection: Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver

Title: Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver

Object ID: MG0587

Date Range: 1960s-1970s

Compiled by Benjamin Weaver (MG0587), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org People: Weaver, Benjamin Subject Headings: Bridges Search Terms: Beaver Creek Big Chiques Creek Conestoga River

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Collection: Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver

Title: Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver

Description: This collection of Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver contains index cards prepared by Mr. Weaver with information about bridges over several creeks in Lancaster County. The waterways include the Beaver, Calamus, Big Chiques, Little Chiques, Cocalico, Conestoga, Little Conestoga, Conewago, Conowingo, Coon, Conoy, Hammer, Mill, Muddy, East Octoraro, West Octoraro, Pequea and Peters. Information includes the name, township(s), and type of each bridge, and may also include the date of construction, contractors, commissioners, size and weight limit, details on location and/or destruction or replacement of the bridge.

Admin/Biographical History: Mr. Weaver photographed these bridges in the 1960s and 1970s.

Date Range: 1960s-1970s

Date of Accumulation: 1960s-1970s

Creator: Weaver, Benjamin

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 12

People: Weaver, Benjamin

Subjects: Bridges

Search Terms: Beaver Creek; Big Chickies Creek; Big Chiques Creek; Conestoga River; Bridges; Calamus Run; Cocalico Creek; Conewago Creek; Conowingo Creek; Conoy Creek; Coon Creek; East Octoraro Creek; Finding aids; Hammer Creek; Little Chiques Creek; Little Chickies Creek; Little Conestoga Creek; Manuscript groups; Mill Creek; Muddy Creek; Pequea Creek; Peters Creek; West Octoraro Creek

Extent: 1 box, 3 folders

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0587

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Mr. Weaver photographed these bridges in the 1960s and 1970s; the slides are in the Photograph Collection.; Some of these cards correspond with the Bridge Records in the Lancaster County Government Records.

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Bridge Information Compiled by Benjamin Weaver (MG0587), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: No restrictions.

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

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2010.MG0587

Other Numbers: MG-587

Classification: MG0587

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Processed and finding aid prepared by HT, 10 September 2010. Added to database 26 December 2021.

Documents

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Canoeing guide to the historic Conestoga

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3193

Corporate Author: Conestoga Valley Association.

Date of Publication: 1976.

Call Number: 797.122 C747

Corporate Author: Conestoga Valley Association.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: The Conestoga Valley Association,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: 31 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Canoes and canoeing - Pennsylvania.; Conestoga Valley (Pa.) - History.; Conestoga River - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Pennsylvania - Guidebooks.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 797.122 C747

Conestoga river scenic drive : Lancaster, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17201

Corporate Author: McCloud, Scatchard, Derck, and Edson.

Date of Publication: 1970.

Call Number: 307.3 C747c

Responsibility: a study prepared by McCloud, Scatchard, Derck and Edson ; for the Conestoga Valley Association.

Corporate Author: McCloud, Scatchard, Derck, and Edson.

Place of Publication: Lititz, (Pa.)

Publisher: McCloud, Scatchard, Derck and Edson,

Date of Publication: 1970.

Physical Description: 37 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: On title page: A plan for preserving and developing the Conestoga River Valley as a scenic open space corridor for scenic, cultural and recreational uses.

Subjects: Recreation - Pennsylvania - Conestoga River.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 307.3 C747c

Conestoga River watershed : outline of history 1710-1973

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18928

Edition: Rev. ed.

Date of Publication: 1973

Call Number: 974.815 LACO R289r

Edition: Rev. ed.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: Forry & Hacker, printers,

Date of Publication: 1973

Physical Description: 212 p. : maps, photo. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Outline of history 1710-1980.

Summary: This book appears to be a self-published book created by the Conestoga Valley Association. It is a history of the Conestoga River watershed and includes dozens of black and white photos, maps [includes a pull-out reproduction of a map for the Conestoga Navigation Company, which used the Conestoga River as a slackwater canal], reproductions of posters, biographies, and photos of noted Lancastrians of the early years of the twentieth century and more.