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From: "Richard A B" <>
Subject: Re: [PALEBANO] Location of villages ca. 1900 by township
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:39:11 -0400
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Thanks Jerry. You are the first to track down Viam and Kingston. I take it
that those no longer exist since you were about the only one to locate
those.
---Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Garrison" <>
To: "Richard A B" <>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:35 AM
Subject: RE: [PALEBANO] Location of villages ca. 1900 by township


> Centerville either Mt Joy, Lancaster or Penn, Cumberland. Several others,
> but not in that area.
> Buck Lock - not found, but there was a Buck in East Drumore, Lancaster -
> don't know if the canal ran through there, would give ending of Lock for
> locality.
> Campbelltown (1900) was in South Londonderry, Lebanon
> Grantville was in East Hanover, Dauphin
> Hockersville was Derry, Dauphin
> Kingston was Lower Swatara, Dauphin
> Landisville was East Hempfield, Lancaster or Buckingham, Bucks
> Lochiel was East Buffalo, Union County
> Oberlin was Swatara, Dauphin
> Shirksville was Bethel, Lebanon
> ViaN was Derry, Dauphin.
>
> The others are either misspelled, or didn't have city, borough, or village
> status in 1900 (per 4th edition of The Pennsylvania Line.)
>
> Jerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A B [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> To:
> Subject: [PALEBANO] Location of villages ca. 1900 by township
>
>
> In going through old newspaper issues of the early 1900's I came upon the
> mention of the following villages where people of the surname I am
> researching were mentioned. I wonder if anyone can help me find the exact
> township (and county!) some of these are located within. They may be in
> either Lebanon Co. or in Dauphin Co. If you know the township and county
> please post to this list:
>
> Buck Lock
> Centerville
> Campbelltown
> Grantville
> Hockersville
> Kingstown
> Landisville
> Lochiel
> Oberlin
> Shellsville
> Shirksville
> Viam
>
> I'm going to try and look through the townships in the 1900 census records
> wherein these villages are/were located, but since Ancestry hasn't indexed
> that I'd like to narrow my search by township(s).
>
> ---Richard
>
>
>

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