…the section. “See to it,” he ordered. Photo of a portion of the historic Hybla estate in the 2000s (Scott Mingus) Quickly, the two limbered three-inch rifles moved from Strickler…
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Detail from an aerial photograph of the old Hybla farm near Wrightsville PA (Scott Mingus photo taken inside the Hybla farmhouse) In part 1 of this brief two-part series, we…
…wife, Colonel Mifflin came to live in “Hybla,” the once-grand stone house shown above in this vintage image from the collection of the York County Heritage Trust. The house sat…
…founders as “Hybla,” just outside of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. A generation later, the property, then known as the Huber farm, was a part of the Civil War battlefield for the skirmish…
Back in June of this year, I published a well-received blog entry briefly outlining the history of the “Hybla” property and its signature 18th-century stone farmhouse just west of Wrightsville,…
The Mifflin House (Hybla) was an Underground Railroad station and a key artillery position during the June 28, 1863, Civil War fight at Wrightsville during the Gettysburg Campaign (submitted). Press…
…Hybla (with Don Bair) A History of Early Papermaking in the Ohio Valley NOTE: Jim McClure and I have a new book on Civil War Stories from York County that…
…hill on which the Hybla home sits smashed into the second story of the building housing the IOOF’s lodge, causing considerable damage. Wrightsville’s IOOF, the Chihuahua Lodge No. 317 (chartered…
…of the historic Hybla estate in the 2000s (Scott Mingus) 9. Col. William H. French’s 17th Virginia Cavalry – Reportedly camped in various farms in what was then Spring Garden…
…six locals who lost horses to the Rebels murdered a Black man associated with the Confederate forces that passed through the region) Mifflin House (Hybla Lane west of Wrightsville) Civil…