…today are a few houses and nearby Zion United Methodist Church and its cemetery. Here is my recent York Sunday News column describing the heyday of Draco: A look back…
…today are a few houses and nearby Zion United Methodist Church and its cemetery. Here is my recent York Sunday News column describing the heyday of Draco: A look back…
Civil War veteran, age 90 needed to register as German enemy alien. (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration) This year is the 100th anniversary of the United States…
…Mason just west of the former Trinity United Methodist Church and behind the Baker building, Woman’s Club of York and former Visiting Nurse headquarters, (now Keystone Auctions). The Baker building…
…is a newer building, I am assuming that the present Bethany United Methodist Church is on the site of Bethany United Brethren, mentioned in the 1937 clipping as being nearby….
York County was forever changed when the British occupied Philadelphia, then the capital of the recently united states, in 1777. Continental Congress needed a fairly safe place to meet, eventually…
…observed throughout the united States.” On October 31st the official dispatches from General Gates arrived, confirming that on October 17th British General John Burgoyne had surrendered his entire army to…
…hoods. The KKK state convention was held in North York in 1929 and again in 1939. Their stand was adamantly anti-immigrant, and in 1939, much against the United States becoming…
…the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She was active for years with her church, Aldersgate United Methodist, and recently endowed a nursing scholarship at York College. Klineyoung’s philosophy is…
…attended St. Paul’s (Chapel) Church (now United Methodist) nearby and that Free People would have applied to the United Brethren being less structured than some denominations. The other item, totally…
…peace for Catholic Action and travelled inside and outside the United States promoting peace. Gamble attended the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference as a representative of the National Council of Catholic…