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Affidavit

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Collection: William Walton Griest Collection, Series 25

Title: Sworn statement of Thomas J. Harnish regarding Conestoga Traction Company

Object ID: MG0065_S25_F062_In07_It06

Date Range: 1921/10/11

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Collection: William Walton Griest Collection, Series 25

Title: Sworn statement of Thomas J. Harnish regarding Conestoga Traction Company

Description: Sworn statement of Thomas J. Harnish regarding the assessment of Conestoga Traction Company. Signed by Thomas J. Harnish and notarized by Charlotte F. Wiley, Lancaster.

Date Range: 1921/10/11

Creation Date: 11 October 1921

Creator: Harnish, Thomas J.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

Storage Container: Box 0044

People: Harnish, Thomas J.; Wiley, Charlotte F.

Subjects: Affidavits

Search Terms: Affidavits; Conestoga Traction Company

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages scanned

Object Name: Affidavit

Language: English

Object ID: MG0065_S25_F062_In07_It06

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), William Walton Griest Collection (MG0065), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Accession Number: Unknown.MG0065

Other Numbers: MG-65, Series 25

Other Number: MG-65, Series 25, Folder 62, Insert 7, Item 6

Classification: MG0065

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Originally cataloged by KC, 2002-2003. The project was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Archives and Records Management Grant, ME 230340, 2002-2003.; Added to database 29 December 2023.

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Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

Note: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Company, Conestoga Transportation Company, and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Chart

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Conestoga Traction Company chart

Object ID: MG0123_Framed02

Date Range: ca. 1899

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Conestoga Traction Company chart

Description: Conestoga Traction Company chart. A white-line printed chart showing the street railway companies that merged to become the Pennsylvania Traction Company in 1893 and then the Conestoga Traction Company in 1899. Framed.

Date Range: ca. 1899

Creation Date: ca. 1913

Creator: Conestoga Traction Company

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Wall: Side 11

Storage Cabinet: Section 03

Storage Shelf: Top Shelf

Subjects: Street-railroads

Search Terms: Brandywine Street Railway Company; Charts; Christiana and Coatesville Street Railway Company; Coatesville and Western Street Railway Company; Coatesville Rapid Transit Company; Coatesville Traction Company; Columbia and Donegal Railway Company; Columbia and Ironville Street Passenger Railway Company; Conestoga Traction Company; East End Passenger Railway Company; Elizabethtown and Florin Street Railway Company; Ephrata and Adamstown Railway Company; Lancaster and Columbia Railway Company; Lancaster and Eastern Street Railway Company; Lancaster and Lititz Electric Railway Company; Lancaster and Millersville Railroad Company; Lancaster and New Holland Railway Company; Lancaster and Quarryville Street Railway Company; Lancaster and Rocky Springs Railway Company; Lancaster and Terre Hill Street Railway Company; Lancaster City Street Railway Company; Lancaster Traction Company; Lancaster, Mechanicsburg and New Holland Railway Company; Lancaster, Petersburg and Manheim Railway Company; Lancaster, Willow Street, Lampeter and Strasburg Railway Company; New Holland, Blue Ball and Terre Hill Street Railway Company; Parkesburg and Coatesville Street Railway Company; Pennsylvania Traction Company; Rohrerstown, Landisville and Mount Joy Street Railway Company; Street railroads; Trolleys; West Chester Street Railway Company; West End Street Railway Company

Extent: 1 item, 1 page to scan

Object Name: Chart

Language: English

Condition: Poor

Condition Date: 2024-01-29

Condition Notes: Faded and brittle. Tears along the right side and top, left of center.

Object ID: MG0123_Framed02

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Letters patent for the consolidation of Conestoga Traction Company (MG0123_F028)

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

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Original document may be used by appointment--please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: 2023.055

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Item

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The Conestoga Traction Company, 1899-1931

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Author: Shindle, Richard D.

Date of Publication: 1976.

The Conestoga Traction Company 1899-1931 by Richard D. Shindle PREFACE In the late 1890's and early 1900's the electric street railway car represented the ultimate means of travel to the average individual. Electric cars were used to travel between Lancaster City and the many communities of

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Responsibility: by Richard D. Shindle.

Author: Shindle, Richard D.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1976.

Physical Description: [31]-56 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 80, no. 1

Subjects: Conestoga Traction Company.; Electric railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 80, number 1 (1976), p. 31-56Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.80

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Conestoga Traction Company - Information file

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Call Number: Information file - Conestoga Traction Company

Notes: 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.

Subjects: Conestoga Traction Company.; Electric railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Information File

Call Number: Information file - Conestoga Traction Company

For Lancaster's true trolley park, look west

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Author: Corbalis, Ryan P.

Date of Publication: 2011.

Responsibility: by Ryan P. Corbalis.

Author: Corbalis, Ryan P.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: LancasterHistory.org,

Date of Publication: 2011.

Physical Description: 9-27.

Subjects: Lancaster Street Railway Company.; Conestoga Traction Company.; Lancaster Traction Company.; Reading Transit & Light Company.; Edison Electric Illuminating Company.; Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Company.; Lancaster and Rocky Springs Railway Company.; West End Railway Compnay.; Millersville Street Railway.; Rocky Springs Park (Lancaster, Pa.); West End Park (Lancaster, Pa.); Maple Grove Park (Lancaster, Pa.)

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 113, number 1 (2011), p. 9-27Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v. 113

Garden Spot trolleys : an illustrated history of the electric street railway in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Cummings, Luther P.

Date of Publication: c1977.

Call Number: 388.4 C971

Responsibility: by Luther P. Cummings and Benson W. Rohrbeck.

Author: Cummings, Luther P.

Place of Publication: West Chester, Pa

Publisher: B. Rohrbeck Traction Publications,

Date of Publication: c1977.

Physical Description: 170 p. : ill., maps (1 fold. in pocket) ; 23 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania traction series

Subjects: Conestoga Traction Company.; Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Company.; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway Company.; Lancaster and Southern Street Railway Company.; Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Trolley buses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Additional Author: Rohrbeck, Benson W.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 388.4 C971

In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District : January term 1925, No. 257 - Elizabeth Kuhns, to the use of Frank. S. Everts and Silas E. Overdeer, Partners, Trading as Everts and Overdeed, appellants, vs. Conestoga Traction Company, Appellee - Brief for appellee - Brief from judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, to June term , 1920, No. 87

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Date of Publication: [1925?]

Call Number: 346.032 S631

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: [s.n.],

Date of Publication: [1925?]

Physical Description: 9 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; "S. R. Zimmerman, John E. Malone, attorneys for appelee."

Subjects: Kuhns, Elizabeth.; Zimmerman, S. R.; Malone, John E.; Everts & Overdeer (firm).; Conestoga Traction Company.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 346.032 S631

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The Conestoga Traction Company, 1899-1931

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Conestoga Traction Company - Information file

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21828

For Lancaster's true trolley park, look west

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16501

Garden Spot trolleys : an illustrated history of the electric street railway in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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