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Distinctive Indian Rock loaned its name – and really its identity – to...
Adams’ barn/’Star-Spangled’ visit/1914 wedding reenacted The Gazette and Daily calendar art for 1943 – 70 years ago – shows the distinctive rock formation that gave its name to Indian Rock Dam....
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York, Pa., winters: I ‘do remember several large snow falls when I was a...
York’s race riots/York County birds/St. Paul Lutheran’s 250th York, Pa.’s, Nancy L. (Downs) Roth submitted this photo of a large snow from when she was a child in Red Lion. Camille Taylor, left and...
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York, Pa.-Bamberg, S.C., family connection looks to Isaac Nimmons as the...
Ancestors of many York countians with Bamberg, S.C., roots pose for this photograph. They are seated on the left, Fannie Grayson; seated on the right, Josephine Grayson Nimmons; and Richard Grayson....
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York’s South George Street as you’ve never seen it: Linked in to history,...
The ‘C.S.’ in C.S. Davidson?/Alligators in Penn Park/Bambergers You’re probably never seen this view from on high of York’s South George Street before. Erin Herbert and Alex Bastain own the former...
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William C. Goodridge: ‘One of the coolest guys you’d ever want to learn...
Wm. Lee Smallwood, left, discusses plans for William C. Goodridge Freedom House and Underground Railroad Museum in 2005. A combination of financial challenges and structural issues with the mid-1800s...
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Amish, Mennonite faiths explored, explained in new Lancaster exhibit: Linked...
Inventor William C. Davis/York County villages/Off 83′s exits The Landis Valley Mennonite Church donated the Sexton’s House to the Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum about 50 years ago. The old...
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Some 50th anniversary gift: Gettysburg Cyclorama building coming down: Linked...
Obituary stories/Rusk Report/Tuskegee Airmen The old Gettysburg Cyclorama building is observing its 50th anniversary by coming apart. Demolition teams are taking down the building, dedicated in 1963...
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Did you know that Voni B. Grimes helped oversee Penn State York’s growth?...
Civil War bloggers/Historic York Inc. awards/Charles Hartman Voni B. Grimes has been a topic of many posts on York Town Square, as we have followed the achievements of this remarkable man. Now the...
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York County man’s first car? A 1956 turquoise Chevy ragtop: Linked in to York...
York race riots/Historic Lutheran Seminary/1936 Hupmobile ‘My first car was a 1956 Chevrolet convertible. They called them ragtops back then. It was turquoise. I have a photograph of the car at the...
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Betty Marshall, York mayor and citizen, zigged in a community that zagged
Pioneer and groundbreaker Elizabeth Marshall, York, Pa.’s, first elected female mayor, died this week. That’s “first elected” chief exec. Jesse M. Gross was appointed to fill out John L. Snyder’s...
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Old Wright Bros. car dealership, once flying high along I83, grounded: Linked...
More neat stuff below: CCC’s 80th/York parks/Negro Leaguer Jake Stephens Remember Wright Bros. Lincoln/Mercury dealership standing tall at the South Queen Street/Interstate 83 intersection? Well, this...
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York County can never forget this unknown Civil War soldier
York County Civil War historian and Yorkblogger Scott Mingus showed the approximate positions of the various Northern units in the Battle of Wrightsville, Pa. The defenders slowed the...
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Where did the trolley in West Manchester’s Trolley Road come from?: Linked in...
York County’s native plants/Ghost signs/Gettysburg security Why is Trolley Road in West Manchester Township named Trolley Road? The answer is so obvious it might not even think about it. Trolleys...
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York, Pa., meets William C. Goodridge, former slave and successful...
Robert Brinson, a reenactor portraying William C. Goodridge, played the role of the 19th-century former slave and businessman in the Gettysburg Sesquicentennial Remembrance Day event in Manchester...
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Utz Arena at the York Expo Center: We’ll get used to it – Linked in with neat...
Toyota Arena at York Expo Center is becoming the Utz brand one letter at a time as suggested in this photograph, one of a series captured by York Daily Record/Sunday News photographer Paul Kuehnel....
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Did you know Farquhar Estates is a section of Violet Hill? Linked in with...
This 1937 aerial photograph, courtesy of Stephen H. Smith’s YorksPast blog, shows A.B. Farquhar’s Edgecombe estate (No. 1) in 1937. It was a part of three posts on the Spring Garden Township hamlet of...
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York countian sculpting gears and sprockets and scrap into art: Linked in to...
These familiar metal flowers that make up York, Pa.’s Foundry Park Gear Garden near the Codorus Creek? Now we know who made them. Robert Machovec, seen here with one of the flowers, and blacksmith Tom...
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Gettysburg 150: Prime time to score an ‘A’ in understanding the Civil War’s...
Here’s one of Gettysburg’s museums. And it’s not really a museum. It’s a restaurant. The Dobbin House. But this Underground Railroad display is a can’t-miss feature of that Gettysburg, Pa.,...
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Was life in York County simpler 60 years ago? Linked in to history, June 15,...
The West York High School baseball team won its second straight state championship this week. Which brings to mind a photograph Gary ‘Pappy’ Heiland sent in recently. He dated it 1953 or 1954, and...
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York countian builds the Black American Experience one photo, one story at a...
York County, Pa., resident Ophelia Chambliss’ family poses circa 1946 in Tuskegee, Ala. Learn more about her project concerning her family and countless others: Images and Stories of the Black...
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