This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
County Happenings and Local Anecdotes Across Lancaster County
Elizabethtown resident shows an iron fork a century old. Florin hosts A OK M C county convention on Saturday in August. Marietta banker B F Heistand turned 89. Rapho’s Mrs. Brubacher owns a chest from Switzerland dating to 1750. John Espenshade preserves old newspapers including Harrison funeral account and a 200+ year German Bible. Durham steers from Snavely sold in New York for 10.40 per cwt. avg weight 1,460 lbs. Herr of Manheim discusses a possible new company in Columbia with Col. Shannon. Florin man Nissley’s car explosion destroys a 35-gallon gasoline tank. Olds worth 3,500. Amaziah Herr, last surviving Lancaster’s first teachers’ institute member, and Mrs. Arnold, 86, Retold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Roeting
Elizabethtown
M. C
Florin
Marietta
Harrison
Durham
Harry Snavely
Strasburg Township
New York
Canada
Snavely
Allen H. Herr
Manheim
Fourth Regiment
National Guards of
Pennsylvania
Col. Shannon
Columbia
Herr
Eli Nissley
Amaziah M. Herr
Strasburg
First
Teachers’ Institute
Lancaster County
William J. Arnold
Peach Bottom
Amanda P. Brosius
Martic Township
I. C. Arnold
Lancaster
William H. Brosius
Liberty Square
Martic and
Drumore