Lancaster County contains the most concentrated record of Native American habitation in all of Pennsylvania, with 1,470 unique archeological sites cataloged as of January 2008. Topics in this resource include the following: the Susquehannocks; the Schultz Site; the Washington Boro Site; the Roberts Site; the Frey-Haverstick Site; the Strickler Site; the Oscar Leibhart Site; the Byrd Leibhart Site; the Nanticokes; Peter Bezaillion; Martin Chartier; the Conestoga Massacre; and others.
Journal of the Lancaster CountyHistorical Society, v. 108, no.1 (Spring 2006).
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An exhibition in the reading room of the Willson Memorial Building at the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Includes brief information about John Miller ; Thomas Burrowes ; J. P. Wickersham ; Sally Bolton ; Lillian Welsh ; Mary T. Wales ; Gertrude Johnson ; Emmanuel Epps ; Justin Roddy ; Lyman E. Reifsnyder ; Betty Curtis ; Yvonne Lambert Toney ; Lucretia Mott ; G. Terry Madonna.
"Produced for Rivertownes PA USA in commemoration of the 140th anniversary of the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge on 28 June 1863, this program narrates the dramatic story of the bridge's destruction and details the valiant attempt of an outnumbered detachment of raw Union militia to halt the advance of Confederate Brigadier General John Gordon's determined veteran infantry."
Also "introduces the poignant, very risky participation of a company of free blacks from Columbia."