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York County connections to the Conestoga Indian Massacre

I enjoyed an interesting talk this evening at the Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area Zimmerman Center. Lancaster County journalist Jack Brubaker talked about his recent book Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County. I have done some reading on the massacre of the 20

1760s, Adams County, crime, Indians, Lancaster County, Native Americans, Susquehanna River, Universal York, York County, York Springs

Local Capitalists Wanted to Invest in York and Adams Counties and Maryland Real Estate

Prosperity seems to have come to the York County of 140 years ago, if the ads in the December 31, 1867 issue of the York Gazette are any indication. Entrepreneurs and agents from New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, and Adams County were offering investment opportunities. Real estate was enticingly offered by

1860s, Adams County, advertising, agriculture, architecture, business, commerce, farming, Frederick Co., MD, merchants, New Oxford, prices, railroads, real estate, Universal York, York Springs