York County normally voted Democratic in presidential elections throughout the 19th century. 1864 was no exception, when President Abraham Lincoln garnered less than 45% of the vote.
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When a Marylander tried to sell a horse to a York dealer, the merchant became suspicious and set into motion a plan to apprehend the suspected horse thief.
The Irish Railroad Workers Museum in Baltimore remembers the thousands of Irish immigrants who worked and lived in the neighborhood of the B&O Railroad.
A draft dodger from York PA fled his hometown via a train headed south to Baltimore. Detectives and army guards identified and arrested him.
York County, PA, bordering slave state Maryland, had many residents that expressed pro-Southern sentiments during the Civil War, including at the polls. Sometimes, that support was more blatant.
The Hanover Branch Railroad provided freight and passenger service connecting Gettysburg and Littlestown to the Northern Central Railway at Hanover Junction.
A York PA resident is victimized by a pickpocket while riding a railroad train south from York to Baltimore just days before the battle of Antietam.
During the Civil War, all sorts of false rumors and exaggerated tales spread following major battles. A newspaper in Chicago repeated tales that Stonewall Jackson captured York PA.
College Hill College was a landmark north of York during the mid-19th century. A newspaper editor from Lewistown PA described his visit in June 1862.
Convalescing soldiers in York’s army hospitals marched through the streets to the train station to martial music carrying an anti-copperhead banner.