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Following is some information that I found online about Peter Bricker houses/towns, etc. The problem is that it sometimes contradicts itself. Did Peter Bricker have a brother named John or Hans? If you can shed any light on any of this, I would appreciate hearing from you.
1. This information seems correct. I found it this from a book published in 1904. The Wabank House by Frank Ried Diffenderffer, 1904, pp. 370-371.
In and around Ephrata are still to be seen a number of the old erections with their date stones.
Sometimes date stones contained other matter aside from the name of the builder and the date. A fine example of this kind is to be found in the walls of the stately and old mansion built almost 150 years ago, and still standing in West Cocalico township , near Schoeneck. It is known as the old Bricker homestead, and the manorial estate that once lay around it embraced 800 acres of land. On this splendid estate the owner built a house about forty feet square of the sandstone so abundant nearby.
It is one of the few houses still to be found in the county that are covered with heavy tiles. In the usual place, in the south side front, is the date stone bearing the following:
“Gott gesegne dieses Haus
Und ales was da greget eln und
Aus.
Gott gesegne alee Sampt
Und da Zu das ganze Lant
Gott alien die Her
Sonst Keinen Menschen mehr
Anno 1759 Jahrs
Peter Bricker, Elizabeth Brickerin
Which may be freely rendered into English as follows:
God bless this house;
And all that enters or goes out,
God bless all the people
And also all the land.
To God alone be the honor
And to no one else.
A.D. 1759.
Peter Bricker, Elizabeth Bricker, (his wife).
2. Shenk’s Mill—West Cocalico, Lancaster Co., PA—From wikipedia
The mill is no longer standing. It was a flour mill and served most of the upper Cocalico Valley. The large mill dam was fed by the sources of the Cocalico Creek. A beautiful two-story sandstone dwelling was built by Hans Bricker, brother of Peter Bricker, who founded Brickerville. Here stood a rare tile-roofed backoven built over a spring. The property came into the Shenk family after the death of Hans Bricker. Elias Shenk owned and operated the mill around 1900. This mill and house stand on the east edge of the PA Game Commission lands originally known as Project 70, a recreational and water fowl propagating area.
3. Monday, Jun. 12, 1944, Time Magazine
The Lone Campaigner
Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker, the candidate who actually says he wants to be President, plugged valiantly away. As the only candidate actually campaigning, Honest John took not a single day's rest. At the Governor's Conference (TIME, June 5) he talked on tax and fiscal policy. He said nothing sensational, but he got in some characteristic licks for budget balancing and streamlined taxation.
As most other Governors went home for a well-earned rest, John Bricker motored on to Brickerville, Pa., the tiny hamlet (pop. 223) founded in 1732 by Great-Great-Grandfather Peter Bricker. There, the thrifty, devout Amishmen cheered when he plumped for free enterprise.
--I am also from Ohio and the Bricker name is still well known here.
4. Keystone Town Markers:
BRICKERVILLE (taken by Kurt Heidel) Founded 1741. Named for Peter Bricker.
--I assume this is what is on the town marker; it conflicts with the information in Time Magazine mentioned above.
5. What do you have on the Brownstone house on the corner in Brickerville, north of Lititz. The menu at this now restaurant, says it was built by John and Barbara Bricker in 1753. Do you know if this is right?
--Posted on genforum
--Who are these people? (John and Barbara Bricker?) I thought son John Bricker was married to Anna Horning? Could there have been two sons named John Bricker? Or did Peter have a brother named John or Hans Bricker?
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