Identifier: inoldpennsylvani00whar (find matches)
Title: In old Pennsylvania towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, 1845-1928
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l Benezet,who afterwards sold it to Robert Coleman. Stiegel s Manheim residence passed throughvarious hands, having been bought first byMichael Diffenderfer and afterwards by Wil-liam Bauseman, James Jenkins and HenryArndt. Baron Stiegel also owned a countryhome at Elizabeth Furnace, which afterwardsbecame the residence of Robert Coleman, and itwas in this house at Elizabeth Furnace that heentertained General Washington. Soon after leaving Manheim, a beautifulgateway leading into spacious and well-woodedgrounds attracted us, and suddenly realizingthat we were at the entrance to Mount Hope,we turned into the drive and motored up to thehouse under the overarching trees. It was agreat pleasure to see the old mansion again andto be welcomed by its hospitable chatelaine.The house was built by Henry Bates Grubb, adirect descendant of John Grubb, who came toGrubbs Landing in 1669, and a great-grandsonof Peter Grubb, who discovered the great ironmines at Cornwall. This house, surrounded by 92
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LANCASTER AND LEBANON TOWNS many acres, is the country home of the great-great-granddaughter of the first Peter Grubb,Miss Daisy E. B. Grubb, who loves every stonein the old mansion and exercises here its tradi-tional hospitality. After a stroll through thegarden with its famous high boxwood borders,and a cheering cup of tea on the porch, we setforth again for Lebanon, once called Steitztown,after its founder. Some settlements were madehere as early as 1723; but the town was not regu-larly laid out until 1759. Of the place itself, with its interestingchurches and other buildings, we had time tosee little; or of the country surrounding it, inwhich members of the Coleman family havetheir beautiful homes, and after motoringthrough its principal street we sped away to the**ore hills, as they are called by many writersof the time, a few miles south of Lebanon. Mr.Henderson told us that many Hessian prison-ers were quartered in the churches of Lebanon,and those lodged in the Moravian church

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