Chapters: "A Friend" - an essay on the life of Daniel Gibbons by his daughter-in-law, Phoebe Earle Gibbons --- Anecdotes by an unknown friend --- Joseph Gibbons (1818 to 1883 ) obituary from the Lancaster New Era --- Tribute to Levi Johnson by Marianna Gibbons as printed in Lancaster New Era --- Excerpts pertaining to Levi Johnson from the diaries of Phoebe Gibbons and Marianna Gibbons --- "The Underground Railroad " a paper written by Marianna Gibbons Brubaker --- Newspaper articles : "County Duck Farm Unique in Pennsylvania " ; " Underground Railroad stop Holds Pre-Civil War Proof " ; " The Gibbons House . "
Chapters: The Early Years / Hotels / Transportation / Mills / Early Families / Churches / Education / Historical Businesses, Buildings / Current Businesses / Community Organizations / Past and Present Residents / Community Life / Pictorial.
Family files are created for Lancaster County families. They may contain correspondence about a family, short genealogies and charts, photocopies of inventories and accounts, letters, etc. The size of any particular family file varies greatly.