Illustrated Historical Atlas of Lancaster County - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977700402 ISBN 13: 9780977700400

Publisher: Historical Atlas Pr, 2007

Synopsis

This beautiful and informative, limited edtition 275 page book, is a comprehensive illustrated atlas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Through text, maps, actual surveys, city and council records, and multiple photos both color and black and white, the reader gets a vivid picture of Lancaster County. Alan Giagnocavo, publisher writes in "A Note from the Publisher": "To understand the distinctiveness of this place, we need to know and appreciate how many different threads that together, invisibly woven, make up Lancaster County. These threads are partly tangible and physical - Lancaster's geography, its buildings and architecture, the surrounding natural beauty and landscape, for example. But other threads are intangible - the variety of its peoples, their character, beliefs, and history, the business and economic activities of the area, politics, religions, music, and the arts. Only when taken together can we gain an adequate sense of what it meant to have lived here in the past, and

About this edition

• Publisher: Historical Atlas Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0977700402
• ISBN 13: 9780977700400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 275