- Collection
- Transportation Collection
- Title
- Transportation Collection
- Object ID
- MG0123
- Date Range
- 1819-1977
Subject Headings:
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
Blueprints
1 document
- 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.
Documents
- Collection
- Lancaster & Marietta Turnpike Road Co. Collection
- Title
- Lancaster & Marietta Turnpike Road Co. Collection
- Object ID
- MG0048
- Date Range
- 1848-1916
1 document
- Title
- Lancaster & Marietta Turnpike Road Co. Collection
- Description
- Collection contains correspondence, accounts, newspaper clippings, Pennsylvania and federal tax returns, stock certificate book, minute books, record books, and a receipt and payment book.
- Date Range
- 1848-1916
- Year Range From
- 1848
- Year Range To
- 1916
- Date of Accumulation
- 1848-1916
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 02
- Subjects
- Lancaster & Marietta Turnpike Road Co.
- Roads
- Toll roads
- Business records
- Stockholders
- Letters
- Search Terms
- Business records
- Conewago Trap Rock Company
- Correspondence
- Finding aids
- J. E. Baker Company
- John Goll and Company
- Lancaster and Marietta Turnpike Road Company
- Lancaster and Marietta Turnpike
- Lancaster Automobile Club
- Lancaster Motorist
- Letters
- Manuscript groups
- Marietta Hollow Ware and Enameling Company
- Muller and Bush
- Roads
- Stockholders
- Taxes
- Toll roads
- Turnpikes
- Extent
- 4 boxes, 26 folders, 7 volumes, 2 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0048
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- No restrictions.
- 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-48
- Classification
- MG0048
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Collection was cataloged prior to 1997. Added to database 29 May 2018.
Documents
- Collection
- Steinman Family Business Records
- Title
- Steinman Family Business Records
- Object ID
- MG0563
- Date Range
- 1853-1932
Kirk Johnson and Company
Lancaster & Middletown Turnpike
Company
Lancaster Broadcasting Service, Inc.
Letters
Lititz Turnpike Company
Lumber trade
Manor Turnpike Company
Manuscript groups
Minutes (Records)
Osceola Mills, Pennsylvania
Steinman Hardware Company
Stocks
�230 North President Avenue
1 document
- Collection
- Steinman Family Business Records
- Title
- Steinman Family Business Records
- Description
- This collection of Steinman Family Business Records contains ledger and account books for George M. Steinman, J. P. Hale, Hale Lumber Company and the Steinman Hardware Store. There are also stock certificate and ledger books from Lancaster Broadcasting Service, Inc. and Kirk Johnson and Company.
- Date Range
- 1853-1932
- Year Range From
- 1853
- Year Range To
- 1932
- Date of Accumulation
- 1853-1932
- Creator
- Steinman family
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 12
- People
- Baker, Scott W.
- Coho, Martin Van Buren
- Franklin, Walter M.
- Hale, J. P.
- Hale, James
- Hale, John
- Hershey, Harry E.
- Moon, S. Z.
- North, Hugh McAlister
- Smith, Samuel B.
- Steinman, George Michael
- Other Creators
- Hale family
- Search Terms
- Account books
- Business records
- Coal trade
- Correspondence
- Drumore Farm
- Finding aids
- Hale Lumber Company
- Hardware stores
- Kirk Johnson & Co.
- Lancaster and Middletown Turnpike Company
- Lancaster Broadcasting Service, Inc.
- Letters
- Lititz Turnpike Company
- Lumber industry
- Manor Turnpike Company
- Manuscript groups
- Minutes
- Osceola Mills, Pennsylvania
- Steinman Hardware
- Stocks
- Extent
- 20 folders, 5 volumes, 4.5 cubic ft
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English
- Object ID
- MG0563
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Related Item Notes
- Andrew J. Steinman Collection (MG0066)
- Sarah Moore Breneman Papers (MG0365)
- See also the Photograph Collection
- See also the Curatorial Collection
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Steinman Family Business Records (MG0563), Folder/Book #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Restricted access for Books 19-23. Please contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit.
- 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-563
- Classification
- MG0563
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Cataloged by HST, 4 February 2010. Added to database 31 August 2017.
Documents
- Collection
- Broadsides Collection
- Title
- Broadsides Collection
- Object ID
- MG0357
- Date Range
- 1775-1958
- )
Lancaster Adler
Lancaster County Prison
Lancaster Soil Conservation District
Lancaster Unemployed Council
Lititz Turnpike Company
Manor Turnpike Company
Manuscript groups
Mayors
Mount Vista Gold and Silver Mining
Company
New York and Pennsylvania Oil and
Coal Mining Company
Newspapers
Notices
Paradise
1 document
- Collection
- Broadsides Collection
- Title
- Broadsides Collection
- Description
- This collection contains broadsides for lectures, stores, businesses, and organizations.
- Date Range
- 1775-1958
- Year Range From
- 1775
- Year Range To
- 1958
- Date of Accumulation
- 1775-1958
- Creator
- LancasterHistory (Organization)
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives South
- Storage Wall
- Side 09
- People
- Bailey, Francis
- Becker, John
- Bomberger, M.
- Bowman, Michael
- Brinton, F.
- Bryson, J. H.
- Chryst, Drue Young
- Chryst, James
- Conyngham, Redmond
- Cromwell, J.
- Deshong, P. M.
- Eply, John
- Eshleman, Elam Witmer
- Fahnestock, William B.
- Funk, Amos H.
- Gable, Jacob
- Haines, Samuel B.
- Harbaugh, Henry
- Hershey, Benjamin
- Jefferies, Thomas
- Kennedy, J. P. M.
- Landis, Benjamin
- Landis, David
- Landis, Jesse
- Landis, John
- Lefever, John
- Lehman, John S.
- Lindsay, John J.
- List, Friedrich
- Mathiot, John
- Maxwell, Hugh
- McCall, H. W.
- Mercer, J. Q.
- Messersmith, Jacob
- Metzler, Christian E.
- Michael, J.
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Scott, Joseph
- Shreiner, Martin
- Steele, John F.
- Stevens, Enos
- Witmer, A. K.
- Witmer, Henry
- Wylie, S. A.
- Subjects
- Broadsides
- Political posters
- Posters
- Search Terms
- Advertisements
- Announcements
- Arithmetic
- Boys Work Fund
- Broadsides
- Camons Island
- Cheap Job Printer, Lancaster Inquirer
- Court of Quarter Sessions
- Cromwell & Bomberger
- Finding aids
- Flyers
- Frantz's Mill
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Lancaster Adler
- Lancaster County Prison
- Lancaster Soil Conservation District
- Lancaster Unemployed Council
- Lititz Turnpike Company
- Manor Turnpike Company
- Manuscript groups
- Mayors
- Mount Vista Gold and Silver Mining Company
- New York and Pennsylvania Oil and Coal Mining Company
- Newspapers
- Notices
- Paradise Lyceum
- Pennsylvania General Assembly, House of Representatives
- Petitions
- Philadelphia Mourning Store, Jones & Fisher
- Poetry
- Political posters
- Posters
- Programs
- Railroads
- Reports
- Review Print
- Russel & Myers
- S. B. Cox and Company
- Sheriffs
- Slackwater Turnpike
- Steam Book and Job Printing
- Stockholders
- Stocks
- Tolls
- Union and Tribune Office
- Youth Appreciation Week
- Extent
- 2 boxes, 23 folders, 1 cubic ft.
- Object Name
- Archive
- Language
- English, German, and Pennsylvania German
- Object ID
- MG0357
- Location of Originals
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Notes
- Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.
- Copyright
- Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.
- Other Numbers
- MG-357
- Classification
- MG0357
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Custodial History
- Added to database 3 January 2022.
Documents
- Object Name
- Negative, Glass Plate
- Collection
- General Collection
- Description
- Glass Plate Negative of Lancaster and Williamstown Turnpike Company Toll Booth, east end of Paradise.
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Object Name
- Negative, Glass Plate
- Print Size
- 8 x 10 inches
- Condition
- Good
- Object ID
- 2-19-07-02
Images
- Collection
- General Collection
- Title
- Photograph- Explosion of Fulton Cotton Mill boiler house, 1867. Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike toll rates.
- Object ID
- 1-07-03-54
1 image
- Object Name
- Negative
- Collection
- General Collection
- Title
- Photograph- Explosion of Fulton Cotton Mill boiler house, 1867. Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike toll rates.
- Description
- Explosion of Fulton Cotton Mill boiler house, 1867. Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike toll rates.
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Object Name
- Negative
- Film Size
- 35 mm
- Object ID
- 1-07-03-54
Images
The Pennsylvania turnpike
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13660
- Author
- Dakelman, Mitchell E.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Date of Publication
- 2004.
- Call Number
- 388.122 D763
- Responsibility
- Mitchell E. Dakelman, Neal A. Schorr.
- ISBN
- 073853532X
- Author
- Dakelman, Mitchell E.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication
- Charleston, SC
- Publisher
- Arcadia Pub.,
- Date of Publication
- 2004.
- Physical Description
- 128 p. 24 cm.
- Series
- Images of America
- Contents
- Chapters: The South Pennsylvania Railroad --- From Railway to Highway --- Building The Pennsylvania Turnpike --- The World's Greatest Highway --- Spanning the State --- Four Lanes All The Way --- The Turnpike Since 1970
- Subjects
- Pennsylvania Turnpike (Pa.)
- Roads - Pennsylvania
- Express highways - Pennsylvania.
- Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
- Pennyslvania Turnpike (Pa.) - History.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Book
- Call Number
- 388.122 D763
History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike : the first long turnpike in the United States
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17278
- Author
- Landis, Charles Israel,
- Physical Description
- 83 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
- Notes
- Caption title.
- Reprinted from The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, v. 42-43, 1918-1919.
- Summary
- The spine of this book reads "Juliana Library Co. Lancaster". This book contains reprints of three articles that were penned by Charles Landis. The first article is entitled "The Julianan Library Company in Lancaster". It is followed by "History of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike". And the last article is entitled "Jasper Yeates and his times".
- The author writes about the " Kings Highway ", the first road from Philadelphia to the Lancaster area, and he then recounts the building of the Philadelphia to Lancaster Turnpike. The third part of his article describes the various taverns and points of interest along the Lancaster County portion of the Turnpike.
- Subjects
- Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
- Roads - Pennsylvania.
- Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
- Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike.
- Location
- Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
- Call Number
- 021 L257
Websites
- Collection
- Bridge Records
- Title
- Petition for appointment of viewers; order and report of viewers
- Object ID
- Bridge F0475 I002
- Date Range
- 1867/08
- Collection
- Bridge Records
- Title
- Petition for appointment of viewers; order and report of viewers
- Description
- Court term: August 1867.
- Location: On public road from the Millersville Turnpike to the Columbia Turnpike, at John Stoneroad's Mill.
- Document types: Petition for appointment of viewers.
- Order and report of viewers.
- System of Arrangement
- Records are arranged by township, then chronologically within each township.
- Date Range
- 1867/08
- Year
- 1867
- Storage Location
- LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
- Storage Room
- Archives West
- Storage Container
- Box 0007
- People
- Stoneroad, John
- Subcategory
- Documentary Artifact
- Search Terms
- Bridges
- Columbia Turnpike
- Creeks
- John Stoneroad's Mill
- Lancaster Twp.
- Little Conestoga Creek
- Manor Twp.
- Millersville Turnpike
- Mills
- Orders
- Petitions
- Reports
- Roads
- Turnpikes
- Place
- Lancaster Twp. and Manor Twp.
- Extent
- 2 items, 3 pieces
- Object Name
- Petition
- Language
- English
- Condition
- Fair
- Object ID
- Bridge F0475 I002
- Box Number
- 007
- Access Conditions / Restrictions
- Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
- Case Number
- 233.000
- Classification
- RG 02-00 0324
- Description Level
- Item
The first long turnpike in the United States : Parts I-III
https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8502
- Author
- Landis, Charles Israel,
- Date of Publication
- 1916
THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE
UNITED STATES.
PART I.
THE KING'S HIGHWAY.
A
HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to
involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and
State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded
that the most
1 document
- Responsibility
- by Judge C. I. Landis.
- Author
- Landis, Charles Israel,
- Place of Publication
- Lancaster, Pa
- Publisher
- Lancaster County Historical Society,
- Date of Publication
- 1916
- Physical Description
- 205-226 p. (no. 8) ; 235/258 p. (no. 9) ; 265-340 p. (no. 10) : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series
- Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 20, no. 8-10.
- Notes
- This journal article was published in three successive issues. All the articles and their corresponding appendices are collected here into one file.
- Subjects
- Brooke, Robert, - 1770-1821.
- King's Highway (Lancaster County, Pa.)
- Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company.
- Roads - Pennsylvania.
- Toll roads - Pennsylvania.
- Hotels - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
- Taverns (Inns)
- Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road.
- Contained In
- Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 20, number 8-10 (1916), p. 205-340Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.20
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