Annville History

Short Histories of Annville

Below are links to several different types of short histories of Annville and Lebanon County Pennsylvania. Some are digitalized versions or non-digital scans of early historical monographs/book sections. Others are more recently written histories, some in PowerPoint format, and yet others are personal reflections by Annville residents. The digitalized versions are searchable using the FIND command on the browser in which they are displayed.

Several links are to monographs published by the Lebanon County Historical Society (LCHS) and are identified as such. Books dealing with Annville History are covered in our Books page.

Massive wooden gears, once driven by water power in the Annville Flouring Mill (taken from a short history below)

History of Annville, Israel Rupp, 1844

History of Lebanon County Pennsylvania, Egle, 1876

History of Annville, Philip Croll, 1895 (Lutheran Publication Society)

A Visit to Annville Sixty years Ago, Elijah Bierman, 1899 (LCHS)

Annville: Township and Town, Joseph Warner, 1909-10 (LCHS)

Annville's Oldest Burial Place and its Memories, Thomas Stein, 1915 (LCHS)

Granny Forney's Cake and Beer Shop by Thomas Stein (LCHS) 1927

History of Annville by William Watson for National Register Application

A Physicians View of Annville in the 1930's by Dr. James Monteith

Centennial History of Lebanon Valley College by Paul Wallace (1966)

The Lime Kilns on Bachman Road by Newton Bair 1995

History of the Annville Flouring Mill by Friends of Old Annville 2008

History of the Annville Water Company 1889-1973 by Owen Moe

History of the Annville Lime Company and Bachman's Mill by Owen Moe

Sesquicentennial History of Lebanon Valley College (2016)

African Americans in Lebanon County by Leroy Hopkins (2019)