Group of eight unidentified men standing or seated on the marker indicating the First Settlement in Lancaster County. Monument erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society in 1910 at the Brick Mennonite Church, founded in 1719 near the Hans Herr House.
Mennonite meetinghouse at Willow Street, first settlers here in 1710. Monument to early settlers.
Provenance
Black paper album in poor condition and several loose photographs of Kneisly family gravestones and family landmarks in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Compiled in the 1910s.
Mennonite meetinghouse at Willow Street, first settlers here in 1710. Monument to Hans Herr and family. Byerland Mennonite Cemetery?
Provenance
Black paper album in poor condition and several loose photographs of Kneisly family gravestones and family landmarks in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Compiled in the 1910s.
Photograph- Bronze plaque attached to large native boulder in Lancaster County Central Park. Plaque was dedicated by the Lancaster County Park Board on the site of a Native American burial ground.
Photograph- Bronze plaque attached to large native boulder in Lancaster County Central Park. Plaque was dedicated by the Lancaster County Park Board on the site of a Native American burial ground.
Description
Bronze plaque attached to large native boulder in Lancaster County Central Park. Plaque was dedicated by the Lancaster County Park Board on the site of a Native American burial ground.
Boulder and bronze tablet at the Brick Mennonite Church near Willow Street, the first permanent white settlement by Swiss Mennonites within the borders of Lancaster County, in the year 1710. Erected in 1910.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
