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 Pennsylvania Dutch loved to add decorations all over. An old Bible in the Tuliptree Collection has a curious decoration on the tail edge of the textblock.

Early on, Pennsylvania Dutch families documented loved ones with fraktur, especially birth- and baptismal certificates, that were often tucked away in drawers and chests, or perhaps folded and safeguarded in the family Bible.