Columbia, Pennsylvania

Church, Culture, Historic House, Historical Society

Located in the original English Evangelical Lutheran Church, Columbia Historic Preservation Society is dedicated to the preservation of the river town, formerly known as Wright’s Ferry. Once considered as a possible site for locating our nation’s capitol, Columbia was once the gateway to the American West.

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Mount Joy, Pennsylvania

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

History, Historic House, Historical Society, Library

The Museum hosts presentations every month of the year with the exception of December,January, February and August.

Columbia, Pennsylvania

Specialized

Marietta, Pennsylvania

Mount Joy, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Archaeology, History, Historic House, Historical Society, Library

Winters Heritage House Museum seeks to preserve local history by engaging community support to identify buildings of historical significance; developing educational experiences that recognize contributions of early cultural groups in the greater Elizabethtown, PA area; and acquiring artifacts, texts, and documents of historical value.

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Elizabethtown College is an independent men and women's residential college of 1,790 full-time students located in Pennsylvania's historic Lancaster County, near the state capital of Harrisburg and the world-famous chocolate-making town of Hershey. The College, founded in 1899, has been ranked for 10 straight years as one of the best regional liberal arts colleges in the United States by the influential U.S. News & World Report 'Best Colleges' survey and as one of the "best values" in the country by U.S. News & World Report.

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Historic House

Elizabethtown Preservation Associates, Inc. seeks to preserve local history by engaging community support to identify buildings of historical significance; developing and sustaining educational experiences that recognize the area's early cultural groups; and archiving and documenting collections of historical value.

Wrightsville, Pennsylvania

History

Maytown, Pennsylvania

Historical Society

Columbia, Pennsylvania

History, Library, Science, Specialized

The Museum collection is international in scope and covers a wide variety of clocks, watches, tools, and other time-related items. The largest collection is of nineteenth-century American clocks and watches. However, additional collections include early English tallcase clocks, Asian timepieces from Japan and China, and timekeeping devices from Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Russia. Chronologically, the exhibits take you on a tour through the entire history of timekeeping technology from early non-mechanical devices to today's atomic and radio- controlled clocks.

Columbia, Pennsylvania