The Northern Central Railway and its two spurs in York County were vital to the local economy and to Lincoln’s war effort.
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Teenager John H. Shearer bravely protected the vital telegraph instrument at Hanover Junction when the Rebels attacked during the Gettysburg Campaign.
The Friends of the Heritage Rail Rail have released their schedule of free 2019 porch talks at Hanover Junction and New Freedom depots.
Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train passed through York County on April 21, 1863, as a cold drizzle set the tone as somber crowds lined the tracks.
A drunken Union army officer allegedly pushed one of his men from a train near Shrewsbury Station, PA. They were escorting Rebel prisoners to Elmira.
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.
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.