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Collection
Transportation Collection
Title
Transportation Collection
Object ID
MG0123
Date Range
1819-1977
230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Transportation Collection, 1819-1977 Object ID: MG0123 2 boxes 32 folders 1 cubic ft. Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization); PV7 Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 4 Scope and Content
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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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A brief history of transportation in Lancaster County

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Author
Lestz, Gerald S.
Date of Publication
1979.
Call Number
380 L643
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by Gerald S. Lestz ; [photography, Donald Eckert and William Windham].
Author
Lestz, Gerald S.
Place of Publication
Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
Science Press,
Date of Publication
1979.
Physical Description
117 p. : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Notes
LCHS has 635 of 850.
Bibliography: p. 115-116.
Contents
At First, Everybody Walked--The Conestoga Wagon--Wright's and other Ferries--We did a lot of Canal Business--Arks and Rafts--Fulton Succeeded where Others Failed--Ships Carried Lancaster Names--First Transatlantic Balloon Flight--The Lancaster Turnpike--Bridges Over the Susquehanna--Covered Bridges Give Distinction--The Trolley Era--Early Trains--Old Trains in State Museum--The Horseless Carriage--The Historic Amish Carriage.
Subjects
Wise, John, - 1808-1879.
Fulton, Robert, - 1765-1815.
Transportation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
380 L643
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Canal days in America: The history and romance of old towpaths and waterways

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Author
Drago, Harry Sinclair,
Edition
[1st ed.].
Date of Publication
[1972]
Call Number
386.4 D759
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by Harry Sinclair Drago.
ISBN
0517500876
0517181274
Author
Drago, Harry Sinclair,
Edition
[1st ed.].
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
C.N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers
Date of Publication
[1972]
Physical Description
311 p. illus. 29 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 303-305.
Summary
"In the half century following the War of 1812, America went canal crazy, and a network of four thousand miles of artificial waterways was built in the eastern half of the country so as to provide a safe, adequate, and reasonably cheap system of transportation. These canals helped end the isolation of great sections of the country, not only opening a market for the farmer, back-country mills, and factories, but also providing employment for thousands of men - owners, captains, boaters, lock tenders, and weighmasters - most of whom were hard drinking and violent tempered, and often the prey of harpies and their criminal consorts. Life on the canal was seldom placid, and these men regarded themselves a breed apart from the rustics with whom they came into daily contact...." [from the dust jacket]. This book is generously illustrated.
Chapters: 1. How and where it began/ 2. Conecticutt River Canals/ 3. The Blackstone and other Yankee canals/ 4. Down Chesapeake way/ 5. The Dixie canals/ 6. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal/ 7. The James River and Kanawha Canal/ 8. The Delaware and Hudson Canal/ 9. The Lehigh Valley Canal/ 10. The Morris and Delaware Division Canals
Subjects
Waterways - United States
Transportation - United States
Canals - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
386.4 D759
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Conestoga Transportation Company, 1931-1976

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Author
Sauer, Robert E.
Date of Publication
1977
Conestoga Transportation Company 1931-1976 by Robert E. Sauer, Jr. A four-mile horsecar line between Lancaster and Millersville opened in November 1874 was the first transit route in the network that was to become Conestoga Transportation Co. The first electric line in the area started operating
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Responsibility
by Robert E. Sauer, Jr.
Author
Sauer, Robert E.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1977
Physical Description
[160]-163 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 81, no. 3
Subjects
Conestoga Transportation Company.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 81, number 3 (1977), p. 160-163Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.81
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Indian trails to super highways

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2368
Author
Shank, William H.
Edition
2d ed.
Date of Publication
1975.
Call Number
625.7 S524
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by William H. Shank.
Author
Shank, William H.
Edition
2d ed.
Place of Publication
York, Pa
Publisher
American Canal & Transportation Center,
Date of Publication
1975.
Physical Description
64 p. illus. 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. [2] of cover.
Summary
"Shank describes in detail the evolution of the state's roads. He starts with Indian trails at the time of the Penn Grant and moves along through pack-horse trails and numerous other types of roads, including military, corduroy, plank, stone-surfaced, brick and concrete. His journey ends with today's limited-access expressways and includes plenty of maps, drawings, photos and human interest stories." [from Abebooks.com]
Subjects
Roads - Pennsylvania
Transportation - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
625.7 S524
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Lancaster Transit Development Program update

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17739
Corporate Author
Simpson and Curtin (Transportation engineers)
Date of Publication
1975.
Call Number
388 L246
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Responsibility
Simpson & Curtin.
Corporate Author
Simpson and Curtin (Transportation engineers)
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
[s.n.] ,
Date of Publication
1975.
Physical Description
v. : maps, tables ; 28 cm.
Notes
Library has: November 1975, August 1975 updates.
Subjects
Transportation
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
388 L246
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The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal

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Author
McCullough, Robert.
Date of Publication
1973.
Call Number
386.4 M175
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Responsibility
by Robert McCullough and Walter Leuba.
Author
McCullough, Robert.
Place of Publication
York, Pa
Publisher
American Canal and Transportation Center,
Date of Publication
1973.
Physical Description
viii, 181 p. illus. 22 cm.
Summary
"Pennsylvania had at one time and another approximately 1,250 miles of canal connecting almost all sections of the state in extensive freight and passenger activity. There are few visible traces of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal which, beginning in 1834, extended from Pittsburgh on the Allegheny to Philadelphia on the Delaware, some 400 miles. Canals were built for economic reasons in Pennsylvania; they had a vigorous and short life; their functions were carried on under great difficulties; and they were rapidly taken over by the railroads. The canals are all but gone today. This book is an attempt to organize the existing literature and materials about the canals, chiefly with respect to the Main Line Canal, in a manner that so far as possible clears the factual record and preserves the significant details." [from the introduction].
Chapters include: Early Waterways/ The Development of Canals/ The Canal Boom/ Building the Main Line Canal/ The Main Line Railroads/ Branch and Interstate Connections/ Canal Prosperity/ Navigating the Canal/ The Canallers/ Main Line Travel/ Canal Troubles/ Sale and Abandonment/ Canal Remnants.
Subjects
Waterways - Pennsylvania
Transportation - Pennsylvania
Canals - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Canal (Pa.)
Additional Author
Leuba, Walter,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
386.4 M175
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Philadelphia in motion : a nostalgic view of how Philadelphians traveled, 1902-1940

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Author
Boorse, J. W.
Date of Publication
c1976.
Call Number
974.811 B724
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Responsibility
J. W. Boorse, Jr.
ISBN
0892990023 :
Author
Boorse, J. W.
Place of Publication
Bryn Mawr, Pa
Publisher
Bryn Mawr Press,
Date of Publication
c1976.
Physical Description
96 p. : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Subjects
Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Local transit - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Transportation - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.811 B724
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Routes of the Garden Spot Trolleys map

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Date of Publication
1977.
Call Number
974.815 SEPA 102
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Responsibility
Drawn by B. W. Rohrbeck.
Place of Publication
[s.l.]
Publisher
[s.n.] ,
Date of Publication
1977.
Physical Description
1 map ; 36 x 46 cm.
Notes
Includes route names.
Subjects
Street-railroads - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Transportation - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Maps.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.815 SEPA 102
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Stage-coach and tavern days

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18736
Author
Earle, Alice Morse,
Date of Publication
1977.
Call Number
647.94 E12
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by Alice Morse Earle.
ISBN
0879280832
Author
Earle, Alice Morse,
Place of Publication
Williamstown, Mass
Publisher
Corner House,
Date of Publication
1977.
Physical Description
xvi, 449 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series
Corner House Publishers social science reprints
Notes
Includes index.
Reprint of 1900 edition.
Contents
Chapters: The Puritan Ordinary // Old-time Taverns // The Tavern Landlord // Tavern Fare and Tavern Ways // Kill-devil and its Affines // Small Drink // Signs and Symbols // The Tavern in War // The Tavern Panorama // .From Path to Turnpike // Packhorse and Conestoga Wagon // Early Stage-coaches and Other Vehicles // Two Stage Veterans of Massachusetts // A Staging Centre // The Stage-driver // The Romance of the Road // The Pains of Stage-coach Travel // Knights of the Road // Tavern Ghosts
Subjects
Coaching (Transportation) - United States.
Hotels - United States.
United States - Social life and customs - To 1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
647.94 E12
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