The second in a series of Now & Then stories associated with the origins of the building housing new location of York County History Center at 121 North Pershing Avenue in York. This post focuses on the modern generator room of the Edison Plant, which was constructed in three stages between 1904 and 1914; and now houses History Center Library & Archives.
This is the first of a series of Now & Then stories associated with the origins of the building housing new location of York County History Center at 121 North Pershing Avenue in York. It began as an Edison Electric Generation Plant in 1885, one of the earliest in the nation. This post focuses on the smoke stacks.
In March 1999, York College announced the donation of the 23-acre former Teledyne-McKAY complex in Spring Garden Township. At the time, the property, extending westward from Grantley Road, worth $2.5 million, was the largest gift in York College’s history. That site was transformed into part of the West Campus of York College of Pennsylvania.
If you’ve worked in factories making everything from wooden cabinets to air conditioning compressors you likely used production machinery manufactured by B.M. Root Company. It was the first company of its kind in York, Pennsylvania, to manufacture woodworking machinery. However via a World War II need for specialty metalworking machinery, Root developed those machines, which populated factory floors across the nation.
The life of Norma G. Gilbert, R.N. ended as a love story, however began with over 26 years of loving her job as a York Hospital administrator. She is a 1921 graduate of the York Hospital School of Nursing and in 1929 is appointed Night Superintendent of Nurses, as plans were underway to build a new hospital on the South George Street hill. Miss Gilbert retires as Assistant Superintendent of Nurses in 1955 after seeing her vision of a new nurses home realized.
The Historic Hoover Building in first block of Philadelphia Street was constructed in 1892 for George W. Hoover, however for the greater part of its life it served as the York Dispatch Newspaper Offices. In 1978, this became the 16th property in York County listed on the National Register of Historic Places, largely due to its rare four-story cast iron and pressed metal façade.
The July 12, 2024 warehouse fire at 951 Elm Street in York was in the former Wheatfield Street plant of York-Hoover Body Corporation. In 1904, the predecessor Hoover Wagon Company had a major fire that leveled their factory on the same site. John A. Dempwolf designed the replacement factory in 1904, which was the oldest of the buildings that went up in flames this month.
Did you, or family, work or shop at an A&P Grocery Store in York County? Sandy Brown inquired about her father working at A&P Stores next to the York Mall and in Dairyland Shopping Center at Red Lion. That query went to the top of my YorksPast To-Do-List, because of an item my Dad shared about working at A&P while attending York High.
Do you live on a School Road? If so, is the former schoolhouse still standing from which the road is so named? For example, Beshore School Road in East Manchester Township was named after Beshore’s One-Room School.
On Wednesday June 18, 1924, the ten-millionth Ford overnighted in York, while traveled the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco. The car left Times Square in New York on June 16, which was 12-days after the car rolled off the production line in Detroit. This summer, that same car will be repeating that cross-country journey on the Lincoln Highway.