Author: Carol Mccleary Innerst
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: pennsylvania, history, campus, york, college
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-04-09
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738555169
ISBN-13: 9780738555164

The history of York College of Pennsylvania begins shortly after the Revolutionary War. The college traces its lineage directly to three ancestral schools. The foundation was York County Academy, an English classical school chartered in 1787. The academy merged in 1929 with York Collegiate Institute, founded in 1873. Under one roof, both schools survived the Great Depression. In 1941, the charter was amended to allow two years of college-level courses and the institution became York Junior College. With an influx of war veterans, York Junior College quickly outgrew its downtown building and in

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: pennsylvania, railway, sites, trains, historic, guide, railroads
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0760332452
ISBN-13: 9780760332450

Few states have a railroad heritage as rich as Pennsylvanias. This illustrated book offers a colorful look at the Keystone States historic railroads, the men who built and ran them, and the engineering feats that made them possible. Railway historian Brian Solomon also shows readers the legacy those railroads have left in the form of todays historic tourist roads, museums, and destinations. Railroads of Pennsylvania travels from Scranton, home to Steamtown USA and the Laural Line trolley, to Altoona, the heart and soul of Pennsylvania railroading; from East Broad Top, one of the nations bes

Author: Matt Lake
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: pennsylvania, legends, secrets, local, guide, travel, weird
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402766866
ISBN-13: 9781402766862

Praise for Weird Pennsylvania: “Fun, amazing, and arrestingly illustrated.”  —Booklist “…a real fine read and can serve as a travel guide for a trek among the unusual, odd and scary parts of our “weird” state.”  —Pennsylvania Magazine

Author: Steven M. Nolt
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: pennsylvania, history, culture, series, german, germans, own, land, foreigners, republic
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-07-30
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0271021993
ISBN-13: 9780271021997

An examination of how the German Lutheran and Reformed populations of eastern Pennsylvania integrated themselves successfully into the early American republic. Their story illuminates the path that other immigrants and ethnic Americans would travel in the decades to follow.

Author: Pennsylvania German Society
Publisher: Clearfield
Keywords: baptisms, marriages, burials, etc, births, records, pennsylvania, german, church, volume
Number of Pages: 712
Published: 2009-05-08
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0806310197
ISBN-13: 9780806310190

This is the second volume of Pennsylvania German Church Records, a three-volume series which gives the genealogist access to all of the church records ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society . These records are indispensable to anyone interested in Pennsylvania-German origins, but until now they have been almost impossible to locate as few libraries have a complete file of this scarce serial publication. In each of the three volumes are births, baptisms, marriages and burials, the records that identify people and their relatio

Author: Don Yoder
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: pennsylvania, german, publications, society, history, broadside, guide
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0271026790
ISBN-13: 9780271026794

Fifteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of movable type and of one of its powerful consequences, the broadside. These mass-produced printed sheets allowed both the Renaissance and the Reformation to spread with previously unimaginable speed, and when German immigrants made their way to North America, the cultural significance of the broadside followed. Don Yoder’s The Pennsylvania German Broadside examines the history and legacy of these printed sheets within the Pennsylvania German community. The author defines a broadside as any piece of paper printed on one side that is intended

Author: Linda Ashar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
Keywords: pennsylvania, ensure, taxes, wishes, residents, fulfilled, limit, protect, planning, guide, estate, plan, complete, assets
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-02-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1601384300
ISBN-13: 9781601384300

What happens to your estate after you are gone is very much within your control. Estate planning is not only for the wealthy; it is for everyone. It is simply the process of deciding where your assets are to be distributed after your death. For those people who wish to preserve their assets for designated purposes such as family or special charities it becomes necessary to make special advance preparations. To ensure your assets are protected and final wishes are carried out, there are some common actions that should be taken now. Proper estate planning allows you to plan for yourself and yo