Table of Contents
Preface 9
The Susquehanna River
Indian Rock Carvings Draw New Interest 13
Examining the River's Potholed Rocks 15
Ice in August: Surprise for Early Coal Dredgers 18
Lloyd Mifflin Followed the Susquehanna 20
The City of Lancaster
Lancaster in 1910: A Good, Solid, Family Town 23
Lancaster's Terrain: It's All Uphill to the College 26
When Did Mapmakers Add the City to Their Charts? 28
How Lancaster Became One of the Densest Cities 29
Roads, Steamboats, Railroads and Trolleys
Great Wagon Road Linked Lancaster with the South 31
Steamboats Invented Here but Never Traveled Far 33
Low-Grade Line Was an Engineering Triumph 36
How the Highway Robbers Killed Trolley Service 38
Watt&Shand, Woolworth's and the Brunswick
Watt&Shand Building Links Two Centuries 43
Recalling Better Days for Woolworth's Five-and-Ten 46
Brunswick Sold Shoofly Pie á la Mode for Thirty-five Cents 50
With Demuth Snuff, You Inhaled Whiskey and Soap 52
Lancaster at War
Waiting for Hostile Indians to Sweep into Town 55
On the Road to Glory: Assault on Fort Wagner 57
Burning the Susquehanna Bridge at Columbia 60
A Lancastrian Raised the USS Maine 62
Worrying about Saboteurs in World War II 65
Influential Lancastrians
Declaration Signer Was a Reluctant Rebel 69
Frederick Muhlenberg, First House Speaker 71
When James Buchanan Was Tossed Out of College 73
Nurses Honor Generosity of a Grieving Mother 75
Lancastrian Failed to Deliver First Mail by Air 77
Three Thousand Packed Cemetery to Honor Fallen Soldier 79
General from Manheim Proved Grit at Bull Run 81
Thaddeus Stevens Directed Johnson's Impeachment 84
Artist Caroline Peart Lies in Obscure Cemetery 86
Memorable Characters
A Fishing Story as Told Charles Miller Howell 89
Sam Lazarowitz Sold the New Era in the Rain 91
The Last Members of the Horse Thief Association 94
Hattie Brunner:"Feisty Woman, with Great Expertise;rdquo; 96
"Jack" Zook of Paradise Popularized Hex Signs 98
The Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch
Amish Went to Jail to Protest School Laws 103
Poetry Calmed Community after School Shootings 106
Place Names: Noodledoosey to Bisskatzeloch 108
"Principal Symbol of the Pennsylvania Dutchman" 110
Commentary
Station on the Underground Railroad Destroyed 113
North Queen Street, Once Movie House Row, Goes Dark 115
They Want to Build a Wall, but There's a Better Way 118
Revive River Towns with Water Recreation 120
Too Close: Preservation, Progress Barely Coexist 123
About the Author 127
