Historical Societies: News and Highlights Archives

Lebanon County Historical Society

Posted by Ray Bowman on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off On June 18, 1897, fifteen prominent men met in the office of Lee L. Grumbine, an attorney in the City of Lebanon. At this meeting, concern was voiced that many items pertaining to the early settlement, development and history of this locale had been lost, discarded or destroyed. These gentlemen pledged themselves to “the establishment of a society dedicated to the collection of historical...
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Historical Societies: News and Highlights

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Federation Annual Meeting Report The Pennsylvania Farm Museum at Landis Valley hosted the 73rd annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies on May 2 and 3 for representatives of the Commonwealth’s county and local history organizations. The program began with two workshops during Friday’s sessions on “Archival Conservation Techniques” and...
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Washington County Historical Society

Posted by Nancy Saxon on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off The Washington County Historical Society was founded in 1900 and for many years occupied rooms in the county courthouse. During this period the society collected a large library and a number of historical objects and documents. In 1943, the society moved when Madeleine LeMoyne Reed bequeathed the society her lovely family home on East Maiden Street. At LeMoyne House, in addition to several...
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Historical Societies: News and Highlights

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Federation Meeting Planned The 73rd annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies will be held on May 2 and 3, 1980 at the Pennsylvania Farm Museum at Landis Valley. This year there will be a change in format with a two-day meeting planned to replace the regular one-day program. Workshop sessions will be scheduled as well as award presentations and a business meeting....
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Warren County Historical Society

Posted by Laura Grotzinger on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off In 1895 a committee of several prominent Warren citizens, including the Honorable Charles Warren Stone and Abram J. Hazeltine, staged a gala affair celebrating Warren’s Centennial. Five years later at a reunion meeting of the “Warren Centennial Celebration Association,” the members, concerned with the preservation of all historical materials pertaining to Warren County. formed...
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Historical Societies: News and Highlights

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Pennsylvania Canal Society Pennsylvania is blessed with a large number of historical societies. Frequently these are organized on the county level, but there are those which are dedicated to a particular theme. The Pennsylvania Canal Society is one such example. It was conceived during a field trip of the Canal Society of New York State along the Lehigh Canal at Bethlehem in July 1966. An...
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Historical Society of York County

Posted by Douglas Dolan on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off On a crisp winter’s eve in March 1895, a group of fifty-two men gathered for a meeting in the parlor of the Colonial Hotel in downtown York. Concerned over the need to preserve the heritage of their county, these men resolved to form the Historical Society of York County. Their purpose was “to collect and preserve documents, books, records, portraits, views, and relics pertaining to...
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Historical Societies: News and Highlights

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Junior Historians Honor Donald Kent Dr. Donald H. Kent, retired Director of the Bureau of Archives and History of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, was recently honored at the 37th annual Pennsylvania Federation of Junior Historians Convention at the Historic Strasburg Motor Inn. Strasburg. The PFJH honored Dr. Kent by naming this year’s innovative program as the Dr....
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Lancaster County Historical Society

Posted by John Loose on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off The Lancaster County Historical Society was established in l 886 as a salvageable remnant of The Historical, Agricultural and Mechanics Society begun in 1857. From its beginning, the society met monthly to hear and discuss research papers by the community’s literati. Every paper was in turn published, owing to the fact that the editors of the two major daily newspapers were officers of...
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Historical Societies: News and Highlights

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Genealogy Seminar Series A Genealogy Seminar Series, to include three separate sessions, will be presented at Penn State/Capitol Campus in Middletown throughout the fall. Sponsored by the Capitol Campus Humanities Division as a continuing education service, the seminars will be presented by John W. Heisey, a professional genealogist, writer and lecturer. Formerly director of research and...
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