Mormon booth, "Discovering Your Family Tree", at the Ephrata Farm Show. Photo taken for the Pennsylvania School of the Arts History of the Future Project.
Bronze tablet on the old stone parsonage of Trinity Lutheran Church. It was here at 33 North Duke Street that the Reverend Gotthilf Henry Muhlenberg lived during his thirty five years as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church. In addition to being an authority among botanitsts, Dr. Muhlenberg also served as first president of Franklin College. Monument erected in 1929.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Bronze tablet on the site of the first Lutheran Church in Manheim honoring Henry William Stiegel, co-founder of Manheim. In 1772 he deeded the land for the church to his fellow Lutherans. A srecompnese he asked for five shillings and "in the month of June yearly forever hereafter the rent of 'one red rose' if the same shall be lawfully demanded." Stiegel was a man of industry, being recognized both as a successful ironmaster and a maker of fine glassware. Monument erected in 1934.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Bronze tablet on the house of the D. Paul Hershey farm on Newport Road in Warwick Township. Count Nicholas Zinzendorf, founder of the modern Moravian Church, preached here in December of 1742. He also named the nearby Moravian town Lititz after the barony of Lititz in Bohemia in 1752. Tablet erected in 1936.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
