Cannonball

The Northern Central Railway and its two spurs in York County were vital to the local economy and to Lincoln’s war effort.

Teenager John H. Shearer bravely protected the vital telegraph instrument at Hanover Junction when the Rebels attacked during the Gettysburg Campaign.

The Hanover Branch Railroad provided freight and passenger service connecting Gettysburg and Littlestown to the Northern Central Railway at Hanover Junction.

When the Rebels rode into Hanover, PA, during the Gettysburg Campaign, a local jeweler desperately tried to escape with much of his store inventory.

Local historian Ray Kinard will present a free talk on the history of the Hanover Branch Railroad at the August 15 meeting of the York Civil War Round Table.

The vast public holdings of the U. S. government include thousands of vintage photographs from

In my past two Cannonball blog posts, we learned about railroad ticket agent Joseph Leib,

Let’s go back in our minds to Saturday afternoon, June 27, 1863, in scenic southern

Joseph Leib enjoyed a long career with the Northern Central Railway, Hanover Branch Railroad, and

This detail from a November 1863 photograph by a member of the Matthew Brady firm