This is a collection of various historical and genealogical reference works on Pennsylvania. These references cover 1000's of individuals, and are an excellent way to start or continue research focused on PA. This collection includes all of the individual collections covering Perry County, PA (Please see individual collection listings for detailed descriptions of titles.)

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PE01 - Perry County PA - Everything Collection (All Collections on Perry County)

PE02 - County and Regional History Collection

County History & Biography Collection
History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, Perry, Somerset, Cambria, and Indiana Co. (I. Daniel Rupp, 1848), 658 pages)
History of Perry County in Pennsylvania (Silas Wright, 1878, 295 pages)
History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Vol. 1 & 2 (Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886, 1689 pages)
Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania (J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, 1317 pages)
History of Perry County, Pennsylvania (H. H. Hain, 1922, 1087 pages)
A History of the Juniata Valley in Three Volumes (National Historical Association, Inc., 1936, 743 pages)

Town, Township & Regional Histories
Tales of the Cocolamus (Theodore K. Long, 1936, 152 pages)
Newport Centennial Celebration 1840-1940 (Anonymous, 1940, 66 pages)
Footprints - Blain Bicentennial (1963, 33 pages)
Perry County Sesqui-Centennial Celebration at Landisburg, Pennsylvania (Anonymous, 1970, 45 pages)
Facts and Folklore of Millerstown Area Pioneer Days (1976, 42 pages)

PE03 - Miscellaneous History & Maps Collection

Church, Family, Education, Military and Miscellaneous Histories
Churches Between the Mountains. A History of the Lutheran Churches in Perry County, Pennsylvania (Rev. D. H. Focht, 1862, 420 pages)
Genealogy of the Ludwig Bretz Family 1750-1890 (E. W. S. Parthemore, 1890, 150 pages)
History of the Gable Family (Anonymous, 1902, 80 pages)
An Incomplete Directory of the Descendants of My Grandparents (A. R. Johnston, 1915, 73 pages)
75th Anniversary Program - St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Newport (Rev. W. C. Ney, 1919, 9 pages)
1814-1939 - One Hundred Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Snyder’s Church, New Bloomfield, Pa. (Anonymous, 1939, 5 pages)
Antiques are the Bunk (W. B. Yeats, ~1940's, 24 pages)
Directory of the Millerstown-Liverpool Charge of the Methodist Church - 1945 (Elmer Ritzman, 1945, 41 pages)
Flood Pennsylvania - 1972 (Timothy E. Euker, David Berner, 1972, 68 pages)

Maps Atlases & Images
1863 Map of the Counties of Perry, Juniata and Mifflin, Pennsylvania (Smith, Gallup & Hewitt, Color)
1877 Atlas of Perry, Juniata and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania (Pomeroy, Whitman & Co., 55 pages, Color)

Birds-eye Town Views
Newport, Perry County, Pennsylvania (1895, T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer)
View of Duncannon Pennsylvania (1904, T. M. Fowler)

PE04 - Directory Collection (1906-1958)
United Telephone & Telegraph Company District No. 4 (United Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1906, 124 pages)
Harrisburg, Carlisle, Chambersburg, Waynesboro and Nearby Places Telephone Directory - June 1, 1913 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1913, 116 pages)
Harrisburg, Carlisle, Chambersburg, Waynesboro and Nearby Places Telephone Directory - October 15, 1920 (Bell Telephone Co. of PA, 1920, 156 pages)
Telephone Directory - April 1922 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1922, 172 pages)
Telephone Directory - October 1924 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1924, 152 pages)
Telephone Directory - 1926 Issue (Cumberland Valley Telephone Co., 1926, 204 pages)
Carlisle and Nearby Points - Telephone Directory - Winter 1928 (Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, 1928, 410 pages)
Harrisburg and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - Winter 1931-32 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1931, 380 pages)
Telephone Directory - 1940-41 Issue (United Telephone Company of PA, 1940, 154 pages)
Telephone Directory - 1941-42 Issue (United Telephone Company of PA, 1941, 158 pages)
Huntingdon and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - November 1942 (Bell Telephone Company of PA, 1942, 112 pages)
Telephone Directory - July 1942 (United Telephone Company of PA, 1942, 162 pages)
Telephone Directory - July 1943 (United Telephone Company of PA, 1943, 166 pages)
Telephone Directory - July 1944 (United Telephone Company of PA, 1944, 138 pages)
Carlisle and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - June 1948 (United Telephone Company of PA, 1948, 148 pages)
Mifflintown {& Vicinity] Telephone Directory - November 1954 (United Telephone Company of PA, 1954, 136 pages)
Carlisle and Nearby Points Telephone Directory - April 1956 (United Telephone Company of PA, 1956, 264 pages)
Perry County [& Vicinity] Telephone Directory - April 1957 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1957, 216 pages)
Perry County [& Vicinity] Telephone Directory - April 1958 (Bell Telephone Co., of PA, 1958, 228 pages)