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The Historic Haldeman Mansion, Locust Grove, Bainbridge
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Haldeman Society plans Strawberry Festival
The Annual Strawberry
Festival sponsored by the
Haldeman Mansion Pre-
servation Society will be
held on the grounds of
historic Haldeman Mansion,
birthplace of Professor Sam-
uel Steman Haldeman, on
Sunday, June 22, from 2 to 7
pm, rain or shine. Featured
menu items are local
strawberries picked by soci-
ety members, home baked
shortcake and ice cream.
Also available are light
supper foods. Tickets are
priced at $1.50 for a child’s
portion and $2.00 for adults.
Entertainment will be
provided by ‘“The Banjo
Boys,’’ a banjo group led by
Mr. Paul Hay of Maytown.
Other members are from
Camp Hill and Harrisburg.
Other program interests are
free guided tours of the
mansion house and the
recently restored summer
kitchen and smoke house.
This outbuilding features a
walk-in fireplace and a
reconstructed squirrel-trail
oven.
On display in the mansion
will be a collection of Indian
artifacts, shells, minerals,
fossils and rocks, gathered
by Professor Haldeman
from local surroundings.
The collection is on loan
from Linden Hall School for
Girls, Lititz. Haldeman
taught there in the 1800’s.
Proceeds from the festival
benefit the society’s on-
going restoration of the
historical site, located just
off Route 441, south of
Bainbridge. Look for direc-
tional signs.
A History of
Haldeman Mansion
The land along the
Susquehanna River which is
now known as East Donegal
and Conoy townships was
first settled by the early
Linda Ross showing
at Gallery 31, Marietta
Gallery 31, 31 W. Market
St., Marietta, announces the
opening of a new exhibit by
Linda Mylin Ross of Mari-
etta. Consisting of collages,
drawings, and other non-
paintings, the exhibit will
Marietta Fire Company
run June 19 thru July 19.
Meet the artist at a
reception to be held Sunday,
June 22, 2-6PM. Regular
gallery hours are Wed.-Sun.
12 to SPM.
selling smoke detectors
Members of the Marietta
Pioneer Fire Company are
selling smoke detectors as a
project at $10 each. Contact
any fireman for the pur-
chase of a smoke detector,
which may save your
property or your life.
Presbyterians from Ireland,
when Lancaster County was
stil a part of Chester
County. In this year of
Lancaster County’s 250th
birthday is is gratifying to
know that Locost Grove is
being preserved. The area
tells the story of early Indian
occupation, early Indian
traders who came before the
settlers and of the first
Galbreath Family who
appear on the tax lists of
Chester County from 1718
through the 1720’s. The
Haldman Mansion as it
appears today had it’s
beginning somewhere in
this earlier time period. The
actual plantation of 440
acres was granted to John
Galbreath, Jr. by warrant
from the Penn Brothers on
October 28, 1738. The area
was surveyed July 24, 1744,
after which the patent was
granted July 30, 1744.
John’s brother Andrew
came to the area by then
known as Donegal in 1721 as
a minister.
In 1756 John and his wife
Dorcus sold 54 acres of the
440 acres off the south-
eastern corner of the tract.
"The following year he sold
the remaining acreage to his .
uncle James Galbreath in
trust for his daughter
Jannet, who was still a
minor. In 1769 Jannet
married Patrick Work and a
few days after their mar-
riage Uncle James sold the
property to them for the
same amount of money he
had paid for it; 1200 pounds,
which was a large sum of
money for the time. Patrick
Work put a large mortgage
on the property soon after
he got it and by 1767 it was
taken by the sheriff of
Lancaster County, John
Barr, and sold by public
vendue. The Deed of
Partition, which was recent-
ly found, states that there
were three dwelling houses,
two barns, two orchards,
thirteen acres of meadow,
227 acreas of arable land
and 150 acres of woodland.
Some of the buildings
on the land have been added
to at different time periods.
A Biographical Sketch of
Samuel S. Haldeman
Samuel Steman Halde-
man was born at the
mansion on August 12,
1812, at Locust Grove,
Bainbridge. He was the
oldest of seven children of
Henry Haldeman (1787 to
1849) and his wife Frances
Steman (1794 to 1826). His
father appreciated culture
and endeavored to foster a
love of learning in his
children. His mother, an
accomplished musician,
died when Samuel was
fourteen years of age.
He was educated in the
public school, and afterward
at the classical academy in
Harrisburg and at Dickinson
College, Carlisle. He found
college routine irksome and
left after two years at the
age of eighteen saying, ‘I
cannot learn from others, I
must see for myself.”
Thereafter, he educated
himself. In 1833 and 1834 he
attended lectures at the
University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia, and had
already made recorded ob-
servations of bird habits,
learned to stuff birds and
mammals from a travelling
Methodist minister, made
large collections of speci-
mens in natural history and
had also collected a scien-
tific and linquistic library.
After his marriage in 1835
to Mary A. Hough of
Bainbridge, he moved to a
new residence at the base of
Chickies Rock, Marietta.
Not only did he design the
stately home built by his
father, but also laid the
grounds with native speci-
mens of trees and shrubs
gathered from the surround-
ing woods, and some foreign
varieties, all of which were
planted with his own hands.
Not having a particular
fondness for business, he
continued his studies of
nature, but did assist his
father in a saw mill and later
became a silent partner in
the iron business of his
brothers. He wrote articles
on anthracite furnaces for
Silliman’s Journal and con-
tributed sound and practical
suggestions for improve-
ments to both the mill
business and construction of
the blast furnace.
Birthplace of Professor Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812 - 1880)
June 18, 1980
Legal
taken by
the SVA
As The Susquehanna
Times goes to press Susque-
hanna Valley Alliance is
filing in Federal Court in
Harrisburg an amended and
expanded legal action for
guarentee that radioactive
waste from Three Mile
Island is not discharged into
the Susquehanna River,
source of drinking water for
100,000 people in Lancaster
County.
Last fall Judge Sylvia
Rambo tossed SVA out of
court saying the organiza-
tion had not exhausted its
administrative efforts before
the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. SVA appealed
her decision to the 3rd
Circuit Court of Appeals,
and in March, 1980, the
Appellate Court handed
down a landmark decision
saying that environmental
and constitutional issues
having to do with nuclear
power must be heard in the
courts; the decisions are not
to be made by the NRC.
Beverly Hess, Columbia
RD1, is a representative for
SVA pushing for this legal
action.
Letter to
the Editor
Dear Editor:
The Marietta Recreation
Association would like to
take this opportunity to
publically thank so many
people, business and local
organizations. To begin with
the letters sent out in April
soliciting for financial dona-
tions was very successful.
All those contributor’s
names appeared on a
billboard mounted on a
truck which was driven in
the parade and placed at the
Park during the Fair.
Sometimes THANK-YOU
just doesn’t seem like
enough when we have had
the support as we did this
year.
We would also like to
thank all the parents that
helped their children to
participate. Please encour-
age your children to partici-
pate in our Summer Play
Ground Program this year,
since that is our main
objective for having an
‘““ANNUAL CHILDREN’S
DAY FAIR” in Marietta.
Maybe next year some
more parents will set aside
some time in their schedule
to help plan for 1981
Summer Play Ground Pro-
gram—we could use every-
one’s help.
Thank you Marietta!
Sincerely,
The Marietta Recreation
‘Association