When was elizabethtown pa founded

Special emphasis will also be given to original student-led projects and individual research that focuses on a unique aspect of Pennsylvania or local history. Click below to see how one teacher uses local historical icons as a way to better teach living history. Click the presentations below to see some of the unique "pitch" presentations via Google Slides.

Thanks to the folks at VoiceMap for helping edit, create, and advice my students on their work for this project! To learn more about Lt. Reem's story, check out the Tales of Honor Podcast below. Winter Heritage House Museum The Seibert Library and Research Center is a genealogy library with a fairly extensive collection of unique local history and genealogy resources, and is housed within the museum. Comments Lancaster County Archives The Lancaster County Archives was established in and is the repository for the permanently valuable records produced within the County Courts.

Lancaster History. Questions or Feedback? Both Honors and On-Level students are welcome. It is recommended that students have an interest in historical research , since this will be a focus of the course. It is recommended that students have good organization and time-management skills with a strong academic work ethic. Historians recognize Elizabeth and Barnabas Hughes as the founding family of Elizabethtown.

In preparation of the th anniversary of Elizabethtown's incorporation, residents of Elizabethtown researched the history of their community further and discovered that the Elizabethtown region shares many names with Ireland such as Donegal, Rapho, and Mount Joy to name a few. Contact was established with the town of Letterkenny in County Donegal, Ireland , and it was soon realized that the two communities share much in common.

Elizabethtown and Letterkenny are similar in size, both communities are college towns, they each have a candy company, both have active downtowns, among other similarities. A sister city "Memorandum of Understanding" was signed in November by government officials of Elizabethtown and Letterkenny at a gala event celebrating Elizabethtown's th anniversary.

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