York’s Penn Common was the site of a major U.S. Army Hospital, where more than
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Far away from home in unfamiliar territory. Well behind enemy lines. Weary from days and
Neighborhood and country stores in the 19th Century were important gathering places where locals could
In middle of the 19th Century, York County was still primarily an agrarian society, although
A number of libraries and schools this past week celebrated an event known as “Talk
Communications in the mid-19th Century were extremely crude compared with today’s high speed Internet, CNN,
Captain John Esten Cooke was a Confederate staff officer serving under famed cavalryman J.E.B. Stuart.
Recently, the various TV channels in the Susquehanna Valley have shown joyous scenes of local
With this year’s York County Fair now in full swing, I have received some questions
In this second installment of a series of articles on Civil War personalities from York