Adams County PA

Menallen Friend Meeting

Menallen Friends Meeting (Quaker)

The Menallen Friends meeting was originally located on Center Mills road, but moved to its current location in Flora Dale about 1838. The current graveyard, located just south of the meetinghouse was established about 1853. Menallen belongs to the Warrington Quarterly Meeting of Friends. FIndagrave Listing 1107 Carlisle Rd, Bendersville, PA

First Settlers of the Manor of Maske

[Among the “reservations” set aside by the Penns was the “Manor of Maske”, embracing the territory now occupied by the borough of Gettysburg, township of Cumberland, and parts of several adjacent districts in Adams County, the Round-Tops of the battle being nearly central. An old manuscript, bearing every evidence of authenticity, and  headed “A List …

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