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First Preservation Services

First Preservation Services offers HMPS pro bono architectural services. They specialize in strategic planning and capital fund raising solutions for small to medium sized non-profit and community organizations. Our focus is helping organizations with their historic preservation, capital, maintenance, adaptive use, and sustainability needs. In addition to assisting historical societies and preservation organizations, we provide consultative services to library, school, church, recreational, and community organization projects. 

NOTE: An emerging client base are those organizations who have raised some funding on their own yet find themselves short of their ultimate goal.  Realizing professional help is needed and available that tailors programs to their specific needs and budget, several clients are finding success with First Preservation Services customized plans. 

Citadel DCA

For over thirty years, Gemma de la Fuente and Lynn Scott Paden have been dedicated to the preservation of historic structures and sites which define the past, serving as vessels of our collective memory. The cultural patrimony in which we live, work and play is an irreplaceable resource that provides our future generations the unique opportunity to understand the present, through the reading of the past. 

Unlike other cultural objects, buildings must continue to serve their occupants, even as the surrounding world changes, putting more demands upon them. The challenge as preservation architects, is then two fold. How do we maintain usefulness while protecting the fabric and characteristics that define them as historic artifacts? 

 Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster Co

www.hptrust.org/partners.php

To preserve and protect Lancaster County's rich historic and architectural character through education, advocacy and direct action.

Posted August 30, 2022

Lancaster County Historical Society

www.lancasterhistory.org/

Is a community-based, not-for-profit organization established to educate the public on the history of Lancaster County and its place in the history of Pennsylvania and the United States.

Posted August 30, 2022

 Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Center

https://susqnha.org/

The Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area enhances our region's quality of life and economic vitality by promoting the preservation and conservation.

Posted August 30, 2022

Susquehanna Chamber of Commerce-PA River Towns

www.parivertowns.com/links.htm

The Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center is available to help you make your visit to Lancaster County the most fun it can be! Our Chamber covers three large areas of the Susquehanna River Valley region. 

Posted August 30, 2022

Dauphin County Historical Society

www.dauphincountyhistory.org/

Home of The Historical Society of Dauphin County and the John Harris-Simon Cameron Mansion. The Historical Society of Dauphin County (HSDC) was founded in 1869 and has been headquartered at the Harris-Cameron Mansion.

Posted August 30, 2022

PA Historical Marker Data Base

www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5760

This website is an illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information viewed through the filter of roadside and other permanent outdoor markers, monuments, and plaques.

Posted August 30, 2022

Dickinson College Chronicles

archives.dickinson.edu/people/samuel-stehman-haldeman-1812-1880

Biography of former student Samuel Steman Haldeman.

Posted August 30, 2022

Lancaster Co Hist Society-S S Haldeman Papers

www.lancasterhistory.org/index... (more)

This collection contains newspaper articles, and biographical information and published works of Samuel Steman Haldeman. Haldeman was a 19th century scientist from Chickies Creek who studied language, archaeology, and a variety of sciences.

Posted August 30, 2022

Academy of Natural Sciences

www.ansp.org/research/library/archives/0000-0099/coll0073/

HALDEMAN, SAMUEL STEHMAN, 1812-1880. Correspondence Collection, 1830-80. Gift in part from S. S. Haldeman, but mostly from his grandson Guy K. Haldeman, who presented the natural history manuscripts to the Academy between 1921 & 1960.

Posted August 30, 2022

Penna Farm Journal Vol 1-52, 1852

books.google.com/books?id=SP4h... (more)

SS Haldeman was the first editor of this journal. He was the editor for three years. On page 187, several farm properties are advertised for sale by John and Cyrus Haldeman.

Posted August 30, 2022