Young Jacob Gerhard found a secluded spot halfway up a mountain to build a small log cabin…

Yost Yoder died in 1742 and was sorely missed from the old homestead along the Manatawny Creek.

The church records, kept in immaculate German script, suddenly end in 1791. For more than half a century, the congregation vanished, only to appear once more in 1847

In the years after the Revolutionary War, fear gripped tightly around the small Salzbarrick (Salisbury) area nestled on the slope of Lehigh Mountain.