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Title: Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Croll, P. C. (Philip Columbus), 1852-1949
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lutheran Publication Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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scalpingknife were used. (It should have been said in connec-tion with the first long-historic German school-house ofMyerstown, that tradition reports the massacre of sevenwhite persons there by the Indians.) From this homewended the first funeral procession to the Myerstowncemetery, when Mrs. Anna Barbara Ramler, at the ageof 78 years, was borne hence for burial there. Going still westward along the banks of this stream,we come next to the Immel homestead, originally oneplantation, but later subdivided into two farms. Theeasternmost house, which may have been the first, soinferred on account of traces of an old road near it andthe story of fortifications here, has yielded to the exac-12 I70 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. tions of time, and been displaced about twenty-twoyears ago by a new structure of frame. It is now ownedby the Donges Bros, of the Myerstown mercantile firm,and the farm is in present charge of Mr. Dechert. Butthe westernmost homestead is quite ancient. It has all
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THE IMMKIv HOMESTEAD. the characteristics of age, such as its broken front door,its wall closets, its fifieen-inch wide oak flooring, itslarge and wide Queen Anne mantel and fire place, andits solid masonry, well preserved. Only the tiles havegiven place to shingles, the former stored beside thehome, which if they were old-fashioned German waffles—a thing they much resemble—should have been de- A WALK OVER HISTORIC GROUND. 171 voured long ago. We should think they would take as relics among the descendants of the Immels andGovernor Shulze, quite as well as such hot-cakes. Forhere it was that the future Governor of our State visitedwhen a youth, and in his best suit and smiles. There was a charming daughter in this home in hisday, then presided over by Leonhard Immel, who hadcompletely captivated this young aspirants heart. Wasshe a member of his fathers choir at Tulpehocken,famous and enchanting for her singing, or only a meekand modest member of the flock, winsome for her pietyor

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