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Identifier: ancienthistoricl00crol (find matches)
Title: Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Croll, P. C. (Philip Columbus), 1852-1949
Subjects: Lebanon County (Pa.) -- History Berks County (Pa.) -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lutheran Publication Society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to and histombstone transcribed in our last chapter, who was thefather of Mrs. Gov. Shulze, and the progenitor of theImmels still found in this community, one of whom fillsthe honorable position of banker at Myerstown. Mr.Zartman is farming the plantation where these illustriousancestors raised their earlier crops. Next west to Immels is the Spangler home. Thisoriginal homestead is now also divided into two farms.The westernmost home is the site of the first dwellings,and those now standing are considerably over a centuryold. The barn contains a stone bearing date of 1782,with initials of G. Sp. and B. Sp. This farm isnow owned by Miss Cora Kilmer, while the east half isthe property of Mr. Henry Hauck. A WALK OVER HISTORIC GROUND. 173 Next we come to the most historic and wealtliyancient homestead of them alL It is the reputed Ley(Lei) homestead and is located at the source of the Tul-pehocken, about two miles west of Myerstown. Herefrom among limestone rocks springs forth the Tulpe-
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THE ANCIENT I.EI (IvEY) HOMESTEAD, MODERNIZED BY MR. SAMUEL URICH, (present owner). hocken, like Minerva from the head of Jove, a full-grown stream and daughter of the mighty deep. Herethe Indians had reared a village of wigwams and buriedtheir dead, many of whose bones and relics have beendisinterred durine the makinof of recent excavations. 174 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. Here the wealtl y German emigrant Lei pitched histent and took up looo acres of land. In 1769 he, or hisson, built the second house which is still standing, re-modeled and enlarged by its present owner, Mr. SamuelUrich, into one of the most palatial abodes of the county.But even in the days of its erection it was already amansion. It has a lovely site on a hillock fronting thesouth. Its walls, now ivy-covered in part, are of regulardressed limestone, with sandstone trimmings. Twosandstones in its front elevation read as follows : O MENSCH CEDE® ® NCK DER LE I TST I EN STUN 17 EVA MAGDALE NA LEI . IN 69 ^m 5?

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