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As introductory to this volume, a resume of the history of the lykens-williams Valley is given, with other data nowhere else to be found. This feature being peculiar to this work. In presenting the lykens-williams Valley history-directory and Pictorial Review to its patrons, the Publisher and Author acknowledges with gratitude, the encouragement and support the enterprise has received, and the willing assistance in enab ling him to surmount the many unforseen obstacles to be met with in the production of a work of this nature and magnitude. To procure the material for its compilation, official records were carefully examined, newspaper files searched, manuscripts, letters and memoranda were sought, History volumes were con sulted and throughout the resume, excerpts were taken from Gordon's History of Pennsylvania, W. H. Egle's History of Pennsylvania, Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties.
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