Author: Philip Columbus Croll
Publisher:
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Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Pearl Violette Metzelthin
Publisher:
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 1200

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Author: Patricia Wanger Smith
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439634432
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Berks County was established in 1752 from portions of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties, but its early settlers had already left their marks on the area. Southeastern Berks County covers a mythical trip between the villages Oley, Englesville, Exeter, Yellow House, Earlville, Amityville, Douglassville, Pine Forge, Little Oley, Greshville, Moreysville, Boyertown, Gabelsville, Shanesville, and Pleasantville. It examines why people settled here and how they lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves 100 years ago. The trip, taken through the medium of vintage postcards, may be traveled today by car.

Author: GENEVIEVE TALLMAN ARBOGAST
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469120607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 475

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BRIEF SYNOPSIS GOD BLEW, AND THEY WERE SCATTERED, BOOK III The continuing saga of the Taelmann (Tallman) family finds young William Tallman in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania, some fifty miles from Philadelphia, where he shall remain from 1740 until 1780. There, circa 1742, he marries Anne Lincoln. Anne is the daughter of Mordecai Lincoln II, a land baron and ironmaster, and first wife Hannah Salter, the daughter and granddaughter of a powerful New Jersey political family; destined to become the great-great grandparents of the nation’s 16th president. Although William and Anne would have eleven children, after years of struggle the only child who would survive to adulthood would be their second child, Benjamin. Their trials are further complicated by the 1736 death of Mordecai, which had left his second wife, the former Mary Robeson, widowed with three young boys to rear alone. When she decides to remarry, William is drawn into a contract, devised to protect the inheritance of Mordecai’s sons, wherein he agrees to relinquish fifteen years of his life tethered to the yoke of the Lincoln legacy. He would not be freed from that promise until 1757, when the youngest of Anne’s half-brothers reached the age of twenty-one. In 1765 the immigration of his dearest friend and brother-in-law, “Virginia John” Lincoln, to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, brings a restlessness for William, which is quelled only by realizing an earlier ambition. 1768-80 finds William Tallman as the proprietor of an “Inn” in Reading, Pennsylvania, located approximately ten miles from his newly constructed stone residence, built on the site of the old Lincoln log house, on the banks of Amity’s Schuylkill River. Then, as Colonists can no longer deny that they are at war with England, in 1779, with an attack on Georgia’s Savannah, Thomas Jefferson, the governor of Virginia, calls for the enlistment of all able-bodied men. Answering the `Patriot Cause’ of the American Revolution, William and Anne’s son, Benjamin, now the husband of Dinah Boone, and the father of seven surviving children, joins De Best’s Troops of the First Partisan Legion, leaving his father to cope with matters in Amity Township, and the Inn in Reading. After the war, Benjamin returns to his family, immigrants to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he and his father, William Tallman, establish plantations, comparable to that of “Virginia John,” i.e., Anne’s brother, Benjamin’s uncle, and William’s brother-in-law. The Linville Creek Baptist Church is the heart of the community, where Deacons John Lincoln, Jr. and Benjamin Tallman, supported by his wife, the former Dinah Boone, cousin of Daniel, become pillars of that admirable institution. There, also, Ben and Dinah’s progeny become acquainted with the Harrison family, founders of Harrisonburg, Virginia – relationships which, ultimately, result in the marriages of five of their children: three daughters and two sons. Then, with the turn of the century, now president, Thomas Jefferson begins a westward movement. Land offered at $2 per acre begins the “Western Fever.” A tide of settlers flow out onto Zane’s Trace, the trail that will deliver them to Ohio, a state in the unbroken wilderness of the Northwest Territory. There, as settlers, they will begin anew the task of settling another frontier, as the nation pushes ever westward toward the Pacific.

Author: Eleanor Berman
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780609809051
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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-- Visit Pennsylvania's Dutch country for the Christmas festivities -- Relax at a cozy inn in Willamsburg, Virginia -- Catch an exuberant Washington's birthday celebration at Valley Forge The latest edition of the Away for the Weekend "RM": Mid-Atlantic guide has been updated with critical information such as phone numbers, website addresses, hours, and locations, as well as helpful suggestions for shopping, antiquing, sightseeing, and visiting museums. Reliable driving directions and listings of restaurants and accommodations for every budget are also included with icons indicating which destinations are great for kids and which make a perfect long weekend. This book is a dream come true for anyone who has ever wanted to get away from it all -- but without going too far.

Author: Pamela Lanier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580087032
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Now in its 23rd year, this B&B connoisseurs' favorite presents the great boutique accommodations of the world. From upscale guesthouses to country inns, each establishment has been hand selected for its special touches and exceptional features, making THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO BED & BREAKFASTS, INNS, AND GUESTHOUSES a guide that no traveler should be without.

Author: Marilyn Odesser-Torpey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762783761
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Insiders' Guide to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Dutch Country is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Pennsylvania's "City of Brotherly Love." Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the area.

Author: John Pierce Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Ella Catherine Griesemer Martindale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Pamela Lanier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580085281
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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The coming year holds much excitement for Lanier Publishing International as we celebrate the continued growth of our travel book line both domestically and internationally. Our 21st edition of THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO BED & BREAKFASTS promises to be our biggest and best. Through the years, this indispensable guide has featured more than 8,000 member inns from 132 countries and in an independent innkeeper, innsider, Magazine survey, has been named best bed and breakfast guidebook. Further more! the majority of inns highlighted here are nestled away from big cities--all the more appealing to leisure travelers eager for some relaxation far from maddening crowds.