Discover Ma & Pa Railroad connections to East Berlin and Turnpike Tunnels in this exploration of an 1873 proposed route of the Peach Bottom Railway Western Division from York to connect with the East Broad Top Railroad. That route crosses paths with the 1883/1885 South Pennsylvania Railroad, which was repurposed as the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1940.
A bridge has spanned the railroad cut in Stony Brook since 1904. It was initially solely for trolley use. However after trolley service ended, the bridge became a one-lane bridge for vehicular traffic and eventually was rebuilt for two-lane use. In 2023 the nearby Davies Drive at-grade rail crossing opened. As a result the bridge, on Pleasant Acres Road, was no longer required, and since it is in need of major repairs it is now being removed.
Springettsbury History Night event on Wednesday evening October 12, 2022 is in the York Area United Fire and Rescue Meeting Room, located at 50 Commons Drive (rear of building), York, PA 17402, at 7:00 P.M. The event will focus on the history and impact of railroad and trolley service; where
James Fishel is the latest to comment about the 1959 proposal for a Route 30 cloverleaf interchange at North Sherman Street. In 2020, I initially wrote about that interchange, using specifics Don May recalled about the State proposed plan to construct a real East-West Bypass of York; i.e. four-lanes, limited
The last of 21 York County townships to form, via dividing up the land of an existing township, was Springettsbury Township in 1891; by carving 16.38-Square Miles out of Spring Garden Township; north and east of Mill Creek. This post looks at why and how Springettsbury Township came into existence,
Canal bridge illustrations and photos are used to answer questions of how did the Codorus Navigation canal cross paths with intersecting waterways; such as Mill Creek and Dee Run in York County. An often-related follow-up question concerns the same issue when the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal crossed paths with intersecting
Nick Lentz noted that when his grandparents dated they often went to the Imperial Theatre in Wrightsville. Those dates always included shared dreams of buying a car as they walked by an enticing car lot at the theatre entrance. That car lot turned out to be shrewdly located by the common owner of the Theatre and the Lincoln Highway Garage; which was an agency for Ford, Dodge and Buick automobiles.
Naugle’s Service Station in Stony Brook had perhaps the widest range of services and the most unique promotional giveaway of any garage on the Lincoln Highway.
Through 1960, North Hills Road in Springettsbury Township was reduced to a single lane of traffic as it shared the railroad underpass with Three-Mile Run. In this 1952 view, the car is traveling north; with Three-Mile Run located at the west side of the underpass. In 1960, the North Hills
Bank barns get their name by being built on the side of a hill, or bank, so that two separate floor levels could be accessed from ground level directly. If a hill was not available, an earthen ramp was added against one of the, often stone, ground floor barn walls