MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
Pennsylvania
Schweitzer, George K. Pennsylvania Genealogical Research. Knoxville: George K. Schweitzer. 1986. 227 pages. Softcover.
Provides a brief history of Pennsylvania , types of records available, and individual information for each county's records.
Price: $12.50
Erie
Lechner, Carl B. Erie: Link to the Great Lakes. Erie: Erie County Historical Society. 1994. 160 pages. Hardcover.
Note: Inked name crossed out. Also has inked date 1995.
This book is a fascinating account of a perfect harbor and its wide-reaching influence on history. The Erie Canal Era and the Industrial Revolution established Erie as a hub of manufacturing and commerce, and the early decades of the 20th century strengthened Erie's position as a world industrial center. This delightful history is a voyage through Americana. A special chapter profiles many of Erie's leading businesses that supported this publication. Contains many black and white and color illustrations and photographs.
Price: $27.50
Montgomery County
Jones, Arthur Hosking. Cheltenham Township. A Sociological Analysis of a Residential Suburb. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1940. 173 pages. Hardcover.
This is a study of a residential suburban area approximately ten miles north of Philadelphia. The 1939 population was 18,000. It attempts to determine what is the background of the community and how did it come to be as it was; is there a pattern of organization and behavior; and how was the author able to determine the answers. Montgomery County was established in 1784, an outgrowth of Philadelphia County but Cheltenham was established in 1682 by Richard Wall and Toby Leech. The book discusses the history of the area, migration into the area, education, social status, and much more.
Price: $10.00
Rockdale
Wallace, Anthony F. C. Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. An account of the coming of the machines, the making of a new way of life in the mill hamlets, the triumph of evngelical capitalists over socialists and infidels, and the transformation of the workers into Christian soldiers in a cotton-manufacturing district in Pennsylvania in the years before and during the Civil War. New York. W. W. Norton. 1978. 553 pages. Softcover.
Here is the Industrial Revolution as it came to Rockdale, Pennsylvania, and was experienced by the men, women, and children of that cotton-manufacturing town in the four decades before and during the Civil War. The workers, the managers, the inventors, the investors, the owners and entrepreneurs are all examined. This book sheds new light on pioneer factory owners and factory workers. Its treatments of the family and of the diffusion of a new technology are splendid.
Price: $7.50
York
Sheets, George R. To the Setting of the Sun: The Story of York. Windsor Publications. 1981. 240 pages. Hardcover.
The lush woodlands of the Susquehanna Valley were used by Native Americans for centuries before the 1736 Indian treaty with William Penn and his associates deeded a tract of land15 mile long and six miles wide which included what would be the town of York. The town was laid out in 1741 by German and English immigrants. From September 30, 1777 to June 27, 1778 it was the first capital of the United States of America. This book takes the reader from the city's foundings through the middle of the 1900s, and include many photographs and maps.
$20.00