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What is the story of the Midway Motel in Loganville? Linked in with neat York...
Topics below: Pinterest interest/Local histories/Gettysburg hunting? Twenty people were evacuated from this Loganville motel, the Midway, on Monday after a fire at this North Main Street lodging place....
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We must have long memories of wars that shaped America – and York County
Franklin Ginter was a soldier’s soldier. He was an early responder from York in the Civil War, serving with a unit, the York Rifles, that guarded bridges in northern Maryland against sabateurs. He was...
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Fill ‘er up at Naugle’s in Springetts and receive a free plane ride: Linked...
Neat stuff, below: Red Lion’s Red Zone/Stewartstown Railroad/Brookside Park The Stony Brook area of Springettsbury Township was home to one of the earliest airstrips in York County, according to John...
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Over the years, Warner’s Dairy Complex has changed a bit: Linked in with neat...
The transformation of Warner’s Dairy Complex, complete with airport, into Lion’s Pride Restaurant and Dairyland Square Shopping Center and associated buildings is just plain interesting. This image,...
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Did Abe Lincoln see this Hanover Junction clock? Linked in with neat York...
More neat stuff below: Boring Furniture/Ebert Furniture/Craig Walker Did Abraham Lincoln glance at this clock as he waited for a train to take him to Gettysburg in November 1863 to deliver what became...
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Grammy nod propels Red Lion’s Halestorm to select status in York County history
Grammy-nominee Halestorm played York Fair in 2009. Here, members from left Joe Hottinger, Josh Smith, and Lzzy Hale are backstage just before stepping up to perform. Also of interest: Check out these...
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Red Lion’s residents worked with their hands for years, but did they ever...
This photograph, with the caption “soft coal miners return to work, Red Lion, PA” presented a short-term mystery and the question: Were there ever coal mines near Red Lion? Also of interest: Far from...
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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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Look at the size of that Keystone Marker: Linked in to York County history,...
Loganville in headlines/York Charter High?/New Oxford collectors Keystone Markers, those often-forgotten signs along state highway planted between the world wars, are undergoing renovation through...
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Hex Murder witchcraft trials …‘and they happened in York County’: Linked in...
Red Lion Controls not in Red Lion, Pa.?/Steam into History It will be an interesting night in Glen Rock, Pa., when J. Ross McGinnis takes the podium in April to talk about the Hex Murder of 1928....
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Looking for a 1700s Spring Grove farmhouse? You’ll just have to move it....
Loyer’s soda fountain/Civil War Times mystery photo Someone is talking with Rutter’s convenience stores about moving the Hoke House in Spring Grove, a $500,000 project. Rutter’s is also entertaining a...
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Are there any York County pharmacies with old-fashioned soda fountains?
Glen Rock’s John ‘Otts’ Hufnagel noticed a photograph of the now-closed Loyer’s Pharmacy soda fountain in Red Lion, Pa., on yorktownsquare.com recently, and he sent along these photographs of Glen...
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York County school machete attack survivor: ‘The future will show me exactly...
Recent Red Lion grad Sarah Amspacher sits at a little-known memorial at North Hopewell-Winterstown Elementary School in Winterstown, Pa. As a kindergartener, she survived an attack by machete wielding...
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York County history mystery intersection: It’s one to avoid, wherever it is
Linked in/Neat stuff: Jeff Koons/Foust distillery/Kaltreider-Benfer Library This York County intersection is one to detour. In fact, many motorists do so, but it’s still jammed most times. Saturday...
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History mystery doorknobs: Yes, they’re engraved with ‘YC,’ and they’re...
Linked in/Neat stuff: ‘Crooked neck’ Smith/Stauffer’s Biscuit Company The York Daily Record/Sunday News’ photographer Chris Dunn captured these engraved doorknobs while on assignment recently. Where...
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Big and small cigarmakers packed tiny Windsor – The boroughs of York County...
Workers at Windsor borough’s Herbert Smith Cigar Co. are using cigar rolling machines in this 1951 photograph. Not so many years before, the many factories in Windsor and elsewhere in York County,...
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How a York, Pa., man documented famous Masons – and even anti-Masons
Linked in/Neat stuff: Historical markers important/Men march off to WW I Author/educator/storyteller Judy Wolfman was visiting Country Meadows Retirement Community in West Manchester Township recently...
View Article7 more history quizzes to test your York smarts
Post by York Daily Record/Sunday News. It’s interesting how quickly we forget those who have built this community. I regularly put up photographs of these achievers on YDR’s Facebook page. Sometimes,...
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In Red Lion, Pa.: Working on the Ma & Pa Railroad
Linked in/Neat stuff: Civil War conscientious objectors/Cameron Mitchell Day Jan Barnhart of the Red Lion Area Historical Society emailed in an update about Ma & Pa Railroad station renovations in...
View ArticleHistory Mystery quiz: What was John Wilkes Booth’s connection to York, Pa.?
Post by York Daily Record/Sunday News. At a recent Leadership York class that I recently helped lead, the topic came up. Did you know John Wilkes Booth spent time in York, Pa.? Class members were...
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