Entries Containing All of the Phrases «lebanon county» AND «pennsylvania»

By Cosmos Mariner, May 18, 2022

The Waterville Bridge Marker

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1 ► Pennsylvania, Lycoming County, Waterville, Cummings Township — The Waterville Bridge —

The 221 foot Lenticular Truss bridge which spanned Little Pine Creek at this location from 1890-1984 was one of several of these uniquely configured truss bridges to be built in north central Pennsylvania in the late 19th century. The distinctive . . . — — Map (db m220001) HM

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2 ► Pennsylvania, Berks County, Mount Aetna, Tulpehocken Township — Mt. Aetna —

Mt. Aetna Formerly "Wohleberstown" Named for Peter Wohleber Pioneer Founded 1810 — — Map (db m235934) HM

3 ► Pennsylvania, Berks County, Mount Aetna, Tulpehocken Township — Mt. Aetna —

Mt. Aetna Formerly "Wohleberstown" Named for Peter Wohleber Pioneer Founded 1810 — — Map (db m235935) HM

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4 ► Virginia, Hanover County, Doswell — Stop 10 — Deadly Skirmishing — May 24, 1864 — Blue Trail —

One of the units that suffered heavily in the skirmish fighting in the woods before you was the 56th Pennsylvania Infantry. The exhausted and depleted nature of the Army of the Potomac was demonstrated by the loss in officers in this veteran . . . — — Map (db m145751) HM

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5 ► Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Fort Indiantown Gap, Union Township — Blue Eyed Six Grave Site — St. Joseph's Spring —

Preserved between McLean Road and a tank trail, training & cultural resource management coexist. Four members of the Blue Eyed Six took out an insurance policy on Joseph Raber, an elderly farmer, and promised to take care of him until his death. . . . — — Map (db m247222) HM

6 ► Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Lebanon, South Londonderry Township — Colebrook Iron Master's House — Circa 1790 —

has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior June 28, 2010 Susan & Barry Bucks — — Map (db m258370) HM

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7 ► Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Silver Spring, West Hempfield Township — Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company — Reported unreadable

Chestnut Hill is the former name of this site, owned by the Grubb family, descendants of Peter Grubb, an immigrant from Wales, who founded the Cornwall Furnace in Lebanon County in 1742. Later, in 1851, the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company was . . . — — Map (db m201332) HM

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8 ► Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Columbia — St. Charles — Hot-Blast Anthracite Coal Furnace (1854-1897) —

Peter Grubb was a Pennsylvania iron industry pioneer who founded the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty when he discovered Cornwall Iron Banks in 1737, still the largest domestic iron ore deposit east of Lake Superior. He founded Cornwall, Pennsylvania . . . — — Map (db m248020) HM

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9 ► Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Jonestown, Union Township — Gerberich Family in America — Andreas 1734-1795 • Barbara nee Babb 1733-1816 — Pioneer Settlers —

Andreas Gerberich arrived at port of Philadelphia from the parish of Michelreith, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, October 1, 1754. Settling near his brothers in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Andreas married Barbara Babb in 1758. . . . — — Map (db m262032) HM

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10 ► Pennsylvania, York County, Stewartstown — Stewartstown World War II Prisoner of War Camp —

In the summer of 1944 the Stewartstown Fairgrounds was converted to a prisoner-of-war camp for German soldiers captured during World War II. There were 16 prisoner-of-war camps in Pennsylvania during the war. The Stewartstown POW Camp was Branch . . . — — Map (db m254537) HM

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11 ► Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Fort Indiantown Gap, East Hanover Township — In Memory of Sergeant Charles Marquette —

. . . — — Map (db m246991) HM WM

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12 ► Pennsylvania, Lebanon County, Schaefferstown — Gemberling-Rex House — Circa 1758 —

This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m264755) HM

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