Last June, I posted a page from the July 18, 1968 York Gazette & Daily, which you can see here. I had several thoughts about it – including some wonder at the prices, holy cow! – but my biggest question was about the story you can probably (faintly) see at
More in the ongoing series on the Names of York. Place: Kennard-Dale High School in the South Eastern School District Who was it named after? Joseph Kennard was a Stewartstown man who, in 1807, received the patent for the land on which the original Kennard-Dale High School would be built.
More in the ongoing series on the Names of York. Place: Stewartstown, a borough in southeastern York County. Who was it named after? Anthony Stewart, one of the town’s original landowners, was the first postmaster of Stewartstown. Stewart was a mechanic who made spinning wheels and sold them around town.
I promised yesterday that I’d tell you more about some of the places we stopped on our recent fall drive. First, we stopped by The Gatchellville Store at 2497 New Park Road in New Park, Fawn Township. This antique market is owned by Linda Sarubin and Carroll Swam, and it
Remember yesterday’s photo of the metal cows at Maple Lawn Farms in New Park, Fawn Township? Well, perhaps inspired by that, our family spent a recent Sunday driving around exactly that area of southern York County. We had no destination in mind; we just wanted to “get lost.” That’s a
I’ve asked a few times what your ideal day in York County would include. Frequent commenter and photo-submitter Dianne said that, to her, an ideal York County day would have to include a trip to Wallace-Cross Mill in East Hopewell Township. Dianne has shared photos with us before of the
More in the ongoing series on the Names of York. Place: Arthur Hufnagel Public Library of Glen Rock Who was it named after? Arthur Hufnagel was born and raised in Glen Rock. His son, John “Otts” Hufnagel, has an extensive collection of local memorabilia and said his father had a
One of the cool things about Hubby’s love of old books is that old books often have old paper – also known as ephemera – in them. And I get really excited when a non-local book has local scraps of paper. So when my husband found this ad from the
If any of your reading knew where my mystery photos were from, you sure didn’t comment, because every single commenter was WRONG! 🙂 I told you yesterday that it was in southern York County, and I did mean extreme-southern York County! These pictures were taken at a place called Cold
Did you guess last week’s pop quiz correctly – where my husband and I ventured in York County? The specific answer is coming later, but first, here are some photos of other places we visited as we headed south in York County. You might notice they’re all food-related – what