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The collections of LancasterHistory.org, Lancaster County's Historical Society & President James Buchanan's Wheatland provide rich resources relating to the history of Lancaster County and the families who lived here. We have a significant collection of books on Lancaster County history and its communities as well as hundreds of thousands of primary source materials from the founding of the county in 1729. We hope that these resources will help you to discover the materials you need for your genealogical or scholarly interests.
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Alex Trimble is a senior at Elizabethtown Area High School. His primary focus of study has been in history and social sciences. During his internship at the James Buchanan Wheatland mansion he will be conducting research on James Buchanan's diplomatic mission to Russia.

Faith McCarrick is a senior history major at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This semester she has been interning in both the archives and education departments at LancasterHistory.Org. In the archives department, she found herself creating box lists of manuscript groups that covered the history of the United Steel Workers Union in Lancaster and the writings of Jewish World War II veteran and journalist, Charles H. Kessler. Read more...

My name is Rebecca Macy and I am a rising sophomore at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. I am an American Studies major with a concentration in Cultural Politics. I have a great interest in civil rights, immigration, and the American Presidency. With a love of history, I am so excited to be working in my hometown this summer with LancasterHistory.org, Lancaster County's Historical Society & President James Buchanan's Wheatland!

At the time of her internship Katelynn Stauffer will be a rising sophomore at Gettysburg College, where she will be majoring in History and Political Science with minors in Education and Civil War Era Studies. While interning at Wheatland she will be working on the creation of a new living history tour that will examine the war years at Wheatland. She will be organizing volunteers and setting up a test run of the program for the public.

Amy Noll is a New Hampshire native who graduated with her B.A. in History and Management from Gettysburg College in 2007. She received her M.L.S. with a specialization in Archives, Records, and Information Management from the University of Maryland in 2009, and recently moved into the Lancaster area. She has past experience working at the National Archives and is also a Civil War Reenactor. In the Archives, Amy is working on the Lancaster Recreation Commission Records manuscript group. She has found many interesting records about past recreational programming for senior citizens as well as records detailing the creation and acquisition of some of Lancaster’s most well known public parks.
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