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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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^ 1814. The relationship isvery likely that of son to the Johannes Licht of stonesNo. 3 and No. 2, who, from the agreement in length ofmarried life and the number of children, must havebeen man and wife. The one of stone No. i musthave been a brother of same name or, possibly acousin to the one of No. 3. Did one live east of townnear this burial plot and the other northwest of town?The writer can not tell, only in the early history of A WALK ABOUT STEITZTOWN. 207 Steitztowii the land east and north of the borough wasmarked as the farm of John Light. We know that oneof these lived a little west of the corner of Tenth andMaple streets, where the old hip-roofed stone fort, con-stituting his abode, and erected in 1742, is still stand- ing. We shall go to see it now.
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THli JUHN LIGHT INDIAN iURT. On our way to this landmark, however, let us take apeep into the old Lutheran parochial school-house,which formerly stood at the northeast corner of theSalem Lutheran cemetery, on Eighth street, untilabout fifty years ago. Its use having been displaced bythe public school system, it was removed hither by a 208 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. Mr. John Harris, who turned it into a dwelling house.It is a log building, now weather-boarded and slightlychanged. It is the present property of Mr. CharlesSwope, and is located on Canal street, alongside of thestone quarry at the east end, and is at present unoccu-pied. The rear door—double, like a shutter—is thesame that gave entrance and exit to the young Luth-eran urchins of seventy-five years ago. It bears themarks of their jack-knives to this very day. If it couldspeak, what a story of w^oe and hardship it doubtlesscould relate, as one generation after another of youngGermans were there graduated in their ^

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