…project to line the Lincoln Highway from coast to coast with trees. The file includes original records, donated around fifty years ago by the Woman’s Club of York, of the…
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Fort Jefferson in the 1860s. Digital source: U-M Library Digital Collections. Harper Weekly. Native Yorker Edman (Ned) Spangler was among the eight defendants tried for conspiracy in the assassination of…
First page of Lincoln’s first draft of the Gettysburg Address. Library of Congress In my last month’s York Sunday News column, I compared the brief coverage of the dedication of…
…bronze. The most ambitious War Memorial project in York County, however, was the Road of Remembrance, over 1,500 trees planted the whole way across the county on the Lincoln Highway…
Baptismal record, First Reformed Church, York, Pa. I have been heavily researching “Ned” Spangler for my next York Sunday News column. Spangler was one of the defendants in the Lincoln…
…1865 was 14 miles down the road at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd. Booth had broken his leg as he made his leap from President Lincoln’s box at Ford’s…
…Lincoln conspirators, Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd. Both sites are well interpreted. I was especially interested in Dr. Mudd’s house, since carpenter Edman “Ned” Spangler, son of a York…
Passions were running high that spring and summer of 1863. The York Gazette was strongly Democratic in politics, very anti-abolitionist and anti-Lincoln. The destruction by a mob of another Democratic…
…Lincoln Highway, now Pa. route 462. There are stories about the institution, started in about 1923 by Lewis M. Crandall, allegedly an osteopathic physician, and his brother George C. Crandall….
…to hate a man pretty hard these days to pay 26 cents to go over and fight him.” Further down the Lincoln Highway toward Gettysburg: “It became a way of…