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The New Holland Area Historical Society - “Preserving New Holland”
Section A
Do You Know...? Page 4A
Student Spotlight Ephrata High School Alex Kiefer Lititz Area Mennonite School Beverly Spencer Biblical Message ............. 14A Births.................................... 15A Crossword Puzzle......... 12A “Happy Birthday”.......... 15A Obituaries ............................3A Professor Beam’s “Deitsch Eck”................... 10A Things To Do ................... 11A
Section B
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IN THIS ISSUE! Spring
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The New Holland Area Historical Society was formed in 2005 with the purpose of gathering, organizing, and preserving information and historical items that provide insight into the life and times of the New Holland area. New Holland has a rich history that dates back to 1728 and it is the responsibility of the Historical Society to provide a permanent home at the New Holland Area Historical Society Museum for the documentation and preservation of this rich legacy. The museum, housed on the second floor of the historic Kauffman’s Hard ware Building at 207 East Main Street, provides space to store and display artifacts, historical data, photos, literature and other mem orabilia which are available for educational and research opportunities. This collect ion contains extensive
materials from The New Holland Machine Company and Victor F. Weaver, Inc., as well as paintings by local artist Myrtle Trembly and many other local historically significant items. One of the key responsibilities of the New Holland Area Historical Society is to provide a safe and functional place to house these artifacts. The Historical Society has recently been presented with an opportunity to purchase the Kauffman building, bringing us to the purpose of the “Preserving New Holland” Capital Campaign. Given the longterm bene fits of owning the building, the Historical Society has undertaken the capital campaign. The goal of $250,000 will cover most of the costs associated with acquiring the Kauffman Building, retiring the mort gage and paying for some
essential improvements to the building, the most pressing of which is the repair and repointing of the vintage brick work on the exterior of the building. These steps will ultimately allow the Historical Society to focus more time and energy on providing a significant resource for the New Holland area as well as achieving the preservation of a valued historical land mark. Thanks to some generous donors, the cam paign is currently over 75% of its goal. From this point on, the majority of what is raised will be focused on the building repair, which will be an ongoing responsibility of the Historical Society. If you would like to learn more about the Historical Society, the Museum, and the “Preserving New Holland” efforts, please visit the website at: https:// nhhistorical.com/.
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese If you wish, you can send There was a general store donations, payable to in the building continuously “NHAHS,” for the Pre from the 1700s until 2005. serving New Holland Capital There was also a hardware Campaign to: NHAHS, P.O. store since the early years. Box 464, New Holland, PA The western portion of the 17557. (The New Holland building was a tavern and Area Historical Society is hotel until 1856 followed by currently registered as a a drug store from 1856 to 501(c)(3) charitable organ 1913. There were other ization in Pennsylvania. businesses that occupied Donations are tax parts of the building but did deductible.) not last as long. History of the Building Interesting facts: The “Kauffman’s Hard • Representative Anthony ware” building was con E. Roberts (October 29, structed on four different 1803 – January 23, 1885), dates. The first section, at the west end, was likely built in was an American politician, the 1780s. The section in the member of the United States middle was probably built a House of Representatives year or two later and the from 1855 to 1859, an abo final section, at the east end, litionist and close associate was built sometime before of Thaddeus Stevens. He got 1795. A large addition was his start working in this built in 1831 that extended building and eventually the eastern part of the owned it. building to the north. (Continued On Page 9A)
East Cocalico Lions Club - In The Right Place At The Right Time
Shown in the right photo is Lion Bruce Carpenter presenting the check to Katrina Grieve (Adamstown Elementary/Reamstown Elementary certified nurse) and the Cocalico School
District for the purchase of a new vision scanner. The left photo shows Katrina testing a students’ vision with the device. You’ve probably heard the saying, “In the Right Place
at the Right Time” and you may even have experienced it at one time. Well, the East Cocalico Lions recently was “In the Right Place at the Right Time.” The club was contacted by Tammy Frey, a
nurse in the Cocalico School District. The School District was trying to determine a way to perform vision screening on their students this school year considering the pandemic and mitigation
Shopping News Photo by Donald Reese protocols. The scanner and device that could be methods they used purchased that would permit previously could not be used sight screening, but it was expensive, at because of COVID19 safety quite issues. The School District approximately $8,000. This (Continued On Page 2A) found a visionscreening