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Bowmansville Roller Mill, also known as the Von Nieda Mill, is a historic roller mill and national historic district located at Bowmansville, Brecknock Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses two contributing buildings and one contributing structure.
Colemanville Covered Bridge over the Pequea Creek. Pequea Creek (/ ˈ p ɛ k w eɪ / PECK-way; Pennsylvania German: Beckweh Grick) is a tributary of the Susquehanna River that runs for 49.2 miles (79.2 km) [1] from the eastern border of Lancaster County and Chester County, Pennsylvania to the village of Pequea, about 5 miles (8 km) above the hydroelectric dam at Holtwood along the Susquehanna ...
This district includes twelve contributing buildings and one contributing site. They are the main farmhouse, a stone end Pennsylvania bank barn (c. 1800), a mill (1810), the miller's house, a former tavern that is now a dwelling (c. 1810), two tobacco sheds (c. 1890, c. 1900), a frame corn barn (c. 1890), a garage (c. 1945), a milk house (c. 1890), a pigpen (c. 1890), and a former carriage ...
History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: With biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men (Closson Press, 1883) online; Henderson, Rodger C. "Demographic patterns and family structure in eighteenth-century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 114.3 (1990): 349-383. online
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Big Beaver Creek [1] is a 9.7-mile-long (15.6 km) [2] tributary of the Pequea Creek in western Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The tributary South Fork meets near New Providence to form the main stem of Big Beaver Creek. [3] Big Beaver Creek enters the Pequea at the village of Herrville.
Ulrich and Mary Strickler immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1737 and purchased two hundred acres of farmland west of the Susquehanna River from the Penn family. Samuel Strickler was born in the stone house in 1875. The family sold the farm during the early twentieth century; it was the subsequently sold in 1943 to York County and used for a prison ...
Officials in Lancaster County are investigating about 1,500 voter registration forms suspected of being fraudulent. The suspect forms were dropped off at the county's board of elections office on ...