topic:"Road" found 31 records - Research Collections

The Simpson Ferry Road : a Cumberland County highway whose history lies in the past

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Author: Beetem, Charles Gilbert,

Date of Publication: 1935.

Call Number: 974.843 S613

Responsibility: by Charles Gilbert Beetem for the Cumberland County Historical Society.

Author: Beetem, Charles Gilbert,

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1935.

Physical Description: [17 Î².] ; 23 cm.

Notes: "As it appeared in the issues of the Daily Local News, Mechanicsburg, Pa., issues of July 11, 12 and 13, 1935."

Contents: The Simpson Ferry Road. -- The first history of the town of Shiremanstown. -- Trindle Road, Cumberland County.

Subjects: Simpson Ferry Road (Pa.).; Trindle Road (Pa.).; Roads - Pennsylvania.; Shiremanstown (Pa.) - History.; Cumberland County (Pa.) - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.843 S613

Indexed street map of Lancaster, Pa. including Lancaster County road map

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Date of Publication: 1964.

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 157

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: Huen & Co.,

Date of Publication: 1964.

Physical Description: 1 map (fold) : col. ; 56 x 86 cm.

Notes: Cover title.; Includes map of Lancaster County, Lancaster Metropolitan area.; Advertisements around the map.; Includes an index.; Photograph of Wheatland--the home of the President James Buchanan on the cover.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Road maps.; Lancaster (Pa.) - Road maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACI 157

Archive

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Object ID: MG0123

Date Range: 1819-1977

Booklets Brochures Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County Center Square Road Station Chestnut Street Christiana Coatesville, Chester County Columbia �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy

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Collection: Transportation Collection

Title: Transportation Collection

Description: The Transportation Collection contains documents regarding turnpikes, railroads, Conestoga Traction Co., Conestoga Transportation Co., and the Red Rose Transit Authority. The types of items include correspondence, financial papers, business papers, stock certificates, tickets, schedules, maps of routes, and a blueprint.

Date Range: 1819-1977

Year Range From: 1819

Year Range To: 1977

Date of Accumulation: 1819-1977

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Bitner, John R.; Boardman, Harris; Bowman, John Jacob; Boyer, Zaccur Prall; Cirt, Anna N.; Griest, William Walton; Hostetter, Albert Keller; Kemrer, Clarence M.; Knapp, Walter; Kreider, Kate; Kriebel, Howard Wiegner; McClellan, Oliver Eldridge; Royer, David; Shuman, James P.; Wohlsen, Anna; Wohlsen, Peter

Subjects: Letters; Minutes (Records); Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (Pa.); Posters; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading & Columbia Railroad Company; Street-railroads; Trolley cars

Search Terms: Adamstown; Bittersville, Lower Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; Blueprints; Booklets; Brochures; Campbelltown, South Londonderry Twp., Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Center Square Road Station; Chestnut Street; Christiana; Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Columbia; Columbia, Ironville and Mount Joy Railroad; Conestoga Traction Company; Conestoga Transportation Company; Conewago Water and Power Company; Correspondence; Dallastown, York County, Pennsylvania; Drawings; Duke Street; East Belt line; East King Street; East Petersburg, East Hempfield Twp.; Elizabethtown; Engleside, Lancaster Twp.; Ephemera; Ephrata; Express Printing Company; Greeting cards; Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; Ironville, West Hempfield Twp.; J. G. Brill Company; Kinport Road; Lancaster; Lancaster and York Furnace Street Railway; Lancaster and Columbia Division, Conestoga Transportation Company; Lancaster and Lititz Passenger Railroad Company; Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Middletown Turnpike; Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Letters; Lititz; Maple Grove; Maps; Marietta Avenue; North Market Street; Mechanicsburg, Upper Leacock Twp.; Mechanicsville, East Hempfield Twp.; Minutes; Mount Joy; Mulberry Street; National Railway Historical Society; Neffsville, Manheim Twp.; North End Photo Finishing House; North Lime Street; North Queen Street; Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania; Penn Square; Pequea Twp.; Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Company; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Photographs; Placards; Substations; President Avenue; Princess Street; Prospect Street; Quarryville; Railroads; Rates and tolls; Reading and Columbia Railroad Company; Receipts; Red Rose Transit Authority; Reports; Roads; Rocky Springs Railroad Company; Schuylkill Navigation Company; Scrapbooks; South Mountain Railroad; South Queen Street; Stock certificates; Susquehanna Railroad; Tickets; Tolls; Trolley car barns; Trolley car yards; Trolley cars; Trolleys; Turnpikes; Walnut Street; WGAL (television station); Williams Park Station; Willow Street Turnpike; Windsor Twp., York County, Pennsylvania; WLAN (radio station); Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; York Bus Company; York Fair; York Railway Company

Extent: 2 boxes, 31 folders, 1 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0123

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Transportation Collection (MG0123), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-123

Classification: MG0123

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Added to database 23 September 2021.

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Peter Bezaillion's Road

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Author: Brackbill, Martin Hervin.

Date of Publication: 1939

Peter Bezaillion's Road By MARTIN HERVIN BRACKBILL The fur trails, used by traders in their journeys from seaports to In- dian towns in the interior in their trade for peltries, the earliest and for a long time the most prosperous enterprise of the middle colonies of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New

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Responsibility: by Martin Hervin Brackbill.

Author: Brackbill, Martin Hervin.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1939

Physical Description: [1]-48 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 43, no. 1

Subjects: Bezaillion, Peter, - 1662-1742.; Peters Road (Lancaster, Pa.); Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 43, number 1 (1939), p. 1-48Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.43

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General highway map : Lancaster County Pennsylvania

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Date of Publication: 1962.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 501 pt. 2 Oversize; 974.815 LACO 501 pt.1 Oversize

Responsibility: prepared by the Pennsylvania Departments of Highways.

Place of Publication: [Harrisburg, Pa.]

Publisher: Pennsylvania Department of Highways ,

Date of Publication: 1962.

Physical Description: 1 map on 2 sheets ; 89 x 119 cm.

Notes: Map contains transportation information and general cultural and physical features.; Includes legend and 67 insets.

Subjects: Roads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Transportation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Road maps.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Map

Call Number: 974.815 LACO 501 pt. 2 Oversize; 974.815 LACO 501 pt.1 Oversize

Pioneers and transportation on Newport Road

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Author: Bomberger, Henry H.

Date of Publication: 1932

PIONEERS AND TRANSPORTATION ON NEWPORT ROAD By HENRY H. BOMBERGER. T HE Newport road is one of the oldest roads in northern Lan- caster county. It was first used as a trail through forests by early settlers on horseback to take wheat to the mill at Brandy- wine, to be ground into flour. It is said

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Responsibility: by Henry H. Bomberger.

Author: Bomberger, Henry H.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1932

Physical Description: [101]-110 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 36, no. 3

Subjects: Newport Road (Lancaster County, Pa.); Transportation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 36, number 3 (1932), p. 101-110Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.36

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Conoy Indian town site marked

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1933

CONOY INDIAN TOWN SITE MARKED By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER CONOY INDIAN town site, and the termination of "Old Peter's Road," so named for Peter Bezaillion, the Indian trader, near Bainbridge and the mouth of the Conoy creek, were appropriately marked on Sunday, October 15th, 1933, by members of The

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1933

Physical Description: [106]-112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 37, no. 4

Subjects: Bezaillion, Peter, - 1662-1742.; Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.); Conoy Indian Town (Lancaster County, Pa.); Peters Road (Lancaster, Pa.); Historical markers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 37, number 4 (1933), p. 106-112Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.37