Remembering Lancaster County

by Brubaker, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781596298637
• ISBN10: 1596298634
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Just East of the Susquehanna Lie the Fertile Farms and Historic Villages of Lancaster County.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
The Susquehanna River
Indian Rock Carvings Draw New Interest	p. 13
Examining the River's Potholed Rocks	p. 15
Ice in August: Surprise for Early Coal Dredgers	p. 18
Lloyd Mifflin Followed the Susquehanna	p. 20
The City of Lancaster
Lancaster in 1910: A Good, Solid, Family Town	p. 23
Lancaster's Terrain: It's All Uphill to the College	p. 26
When Did Mapmakers Add the City to Their Charts?	p. 28
How Lancaster Became One of the Densest Cities	p. 29
Roads, Steamboats, Railroads and Trolleys
Great Wagon Road Linked Lancaster with the South	p. 31
Steamboats Invented Here but Never Traveled Far	p. 33
Low-Grade Line Was an Engineering Triumph	p. 36
How the Highway Robbers Killed Trolley Service	p. 38
Watt&Shand, Woolworth's and the Brunswick
Watt&Shand Building Links Two Centuries	p. 43
Recalling Better Days for Woolworth's Five-and-Ten	p. 46
Brunswick Sold Shoofly Pie á la Mode for Thirty-five Cents	p. 50
With Demuth Snuff, You Inhaled Whiskey and Soap	p. 52
Lancaster at War
Waiting for Hostile Indians to Sweep into Town	p. 55
On the Road to Glory: Assault on Fort Wagner	p. 57
Burning the Susquehanna Bridge at Columbia	p. 60
A Lancastrian Raised the USS Maine	p. 62
Worrying about Saboteurs in World War II	p. 65
Influential Lancastrians
Declaration Signer Was a Reluctant Rebel	p. 69
Frederick Muhlenberg, First House Speaker	p. 71
When James Buchanan Was Tossed Out of College	p. 73
Nurses Honor Generosity of a Grieving Mother	p. 75
Lancastrian Failed to Deliver First Mail by Air	p. 77
Three Thousand Packed Cemetery to Honor Fallen Soldier	p. 79
General from Manheim Proved Grit at Bull Run	p. 81
Thaddeus Stevens Directed Johnson's Impeachment	p. 84
Artist Caroline Peart Lies in Obscure Cemetery	p. 86
Memorable Characters
A Fishing Story as Told	p. 89
Sam Lazarowitz Sold the New Era in the Rain	p. 91
The Last Members of the Horse Thief Association	p. 94
Hattie Brunner:"Feisty Woman, with Great Expertise;rdquo;	p. 96
"Jack" Zook of Paradise Popularized Hex Signs	p. 98
The Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch
Amish Went to Jail to Protest School Laws	p. 103
Poetry Calmed Community after School Shootings	p. 106
Place Names: Noodledoosey to Bisskatzeloch	p. 108
"Principal Symbol of the Pennsylvania Dutchman"	p. 110
Commentary
Station on the Underground Railroad Destroyed	p. 113
North Queen Street, Once Movie House Row, Goes Dark	p. 115
They Want to Build a Wall, but There's a Better Way	p. 118
Revive River Towns with Water Recreation	p. 120
Too Close: Preservation, Progress Barely Coexist	p. 123
About the Author	p. 127
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