The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people. It impacted York County, including killing some Civil War vets.
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Dr. Israel H. Betz in 1907 wrote his memories of the Fishing Creek Valley region in northeastern York County PA during the Civil War.
Lewisberry’s Dr. Webster Lewis and his son Robert, a physician in Dover, were among the early conductors in York County’s Underground Railroad movement.
In the late spring/early summer of 1862, the U.S Army established a sprawling General Hospital
During the Civil War, York, Pennsylvania, boasted a 2,000-bed U.S. Army Hospital with one of
Harper’s Weekly, October 4, 1873 – “The Circus Coming Into Town” On June 30, 1863,
Commemorative headstone remembering the five dead Confederate Civil War soldiers who are buried in the
Dr. Charles Martin Nes was a member of one of the more prominent families of
Background posts: Dr Henry Palmer ran York’s U.S. Army Hospital Gettysburg wounded soldiers entrain for
Dr. Henry Palmer played a prominent role in events in York, Pennsylvania, during the Gettysburg