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Andy's Peach Bottom Railroad adventures

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20433
Author
Boomsma, Mary Lousie.
Date of Publication
2009.
Call Number
813.6 B 724
Responsibility
by Mary Louise Boomsma; illustrations by Mike Abel.
Author
Boomsma, Mary Lousie.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Brookshire Printing ,
Date of Publication
2009.
Physical Description
166, [3] p. :ill. ; 21 cm.
Summary
A fictional story that follows 12-year-old Lancaster resident Andy Grove through the summer of 1912, when he lived with his grandparents in McSparran. The youth gets a job carrying water for a track-laying gang on the railroad.(The railroad of the story did in real life exist in southern Lancaster County. It was a narrow gauge railroad that ran between Peach Bottom and Oxford.)
Subjects
Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad - Fiction.
Railroads - Pennsylvania - Fiction.
Additional Author
Abel, Michael,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
813.6 B 724
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Collection
Stock Certificates Collection
Title
Stock Certificates Collection
Object ID
MG0326
Date Range
1822-1995
Company Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad Company Linglestown Fair Association Lone Star Gas and Oil Company Manheim, Petersburg and Lancaster Plank Road Manheim, Petersburg and Lancaster Turnpike Manufacturing Manuscript groups New Holland Airport Railroads Reynolds and Company Seed-leaf Tobacco
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Collection
Stock Certificates Collection
Title
Stock Certificates Collection
Description
This collection contains stock certificates for businesses and associations in Lancaster County and this region, or for shares held by residents of Lancaster County.
Date Range
1822-1995
Year Range From
1822
Year Range To
1995
Date of Accumulation
1822-1995
Creator
LancasterHistory (Organization)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 08
People
Barber, John
Bausman, J. B.
Bolton, W. P.
Bowman, Robert K.
Burkholder, Abe W.
Cleveland, S. M.
Dick, William
Dombach, Calvin S.
Eshleman, Kathryn
Fairlamb, Harry
Folmer, Charles John
Frank, J. Barcley
Franklin, Walter M.
Givler, John
Givler, John S.
Good, C. W.
Green, E.
Haines, Joyce
Haines, Karl
Harrison, W.
Hartman, H. W.
Hartman, John F.
Hartzell, H. O.
Hess, Mark S.
Jenkins, William
Jones, J.
Kauffman, I. M.
Keller, Dean
Kendall, L. A.
Kreider, Elam
Long, John F.
Loose, John Ward Willson "Jack"
Lorch, George A.
Lutz, P. H.
Martin, Isaac
Maxwell, Joseph R.
Maxwell, Mrs. Joseph R.
Metzger, H. R.
Metzler, Christian E.
Meyer, Anna Magdalen
Miller, William
Mowrer, J. H.
Nissley, J. H.
Parkins, R. B.
Pickle, J. Harry
Pollard, Myron A.
Price, Samuel
Riddick, Frank A.
Rudy, James K.
Rush, E. W.
Sahm, Norman R.
Shand, William
Shurler, F.
Smith, Jacob
Smith, W. J. B.
Snavely, Helen
Snyder, P. F.
Sweigart, S. F
Wagner, F. D.
Webster, George W.
Yost, J. F.
Zimmerman, Elmer D.
Subjects
Stock certificates
Search Terms
Agricultural Trust and Savings Company
American Bank Note Company
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Associations, institutions, etc.
Broun-Green Company
Columbia Pennsylvania Library Company
Conestoga Aero Corporation
E. A. Wright Bank Note Company
Eastern Livestock Cooperative Marketing Association
Farmers Bank of Lancaster
Farmers Oil Company
Finding aids
Follmer, Clogg and Company
Gap Mine Company
Goldsmith Brothers
International Bank Note Company
Lancaster County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association
Lancaster Development Company
Lancaster Manufacturing Company
Lancaster Suburban Water Company
Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad Company
Linglestown Fair Association
Lone Star Gas and Oil Company
Manheim, Petersburg and Lancaster Plank Road
Manheim, Petersburg and Lancaster Turnpike
Manufacturing
Manuscript groups
New Holland Airport
Railroads
Reynolds and Company
Seed-leaf Tobacco Growers Company
Service and Parking Garage Company
Sicily Island Fishing Club
Silver Springs Dairy Company Ltd.
Stock certificates
Tobacco
Turnpikes
United Ice Company
West End Water Company
William F. Murphy's Sons Company
Winslow Petroleum Company
Extent
1 box, 13 folders, .25 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0326
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
Copyright
Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org.
Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-326
Classification
MG0326
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
Added to database 9 September 2021.
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"Little, old and slow" : the life and trials of the Peach Bottom and Lancaster, Oxford and Southern railroads

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15768
Author
Kline, Benjamin F. G.
Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
385 K65 2007
Responsibility
by Benjamin F.G. Kline, Jr.
Author
Kline, Benjamin F. G.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
B.F.G. Kline,
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
86 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Summary
Also includes a chapter on the Peach Bottom Ferry.
Subjects
Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad Company.
Peach Bottom Railway.
Railroads - Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
385 K65 2007
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Collection
Archives Group Photograph Collection
Object ID
AG-02-05-03-056
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Object Name
Transparency, Slide
Collection
Archives Group Photograph Collection
Description
Lancaster, Oxford & Southern railroad line, also known as the Little, Old and Slow, on its way to Peach Bottom
Provenance
Slides from one of Jack Loose's slideshows.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Search Terms
Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railroad
Railroads
Peach Bottom, Fulton Twp.
Trains
Place
Fulton Twp.
Object Name
Transparency, Slide
Film Size
35 mm
Object ID
AG-02-05-03-056
Images
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