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.
Next week Davies Drive will open as a through road connecting East Market Street and Concord Road. It will be a short-cut to The First Post and to Saubel’s Markets; for many in the area. Others claim the road-opening will cut noticeable time off their daily commutes. The southward view
This is the requested YorksPast go-to-site for all of the YouTube Videos of Springettsbury Township History Night Events. This site will be continually updated as videos of new events become available. For those not able attend the October 11, 2023 event, the YouTube video of “The 1940s and 1950s in
The American Patent Steam Ice Cream Company was established in 1847 as a wholesale and retail ice cream producer in New York City. This company utilized a steam engine driven ice cream freezer and appears to be the largest of the commercial ice cream businesses that operated in America during
In 1900, two brothers formed the Flinchbaugh Manufacturing Company in York to produce gas and gasoline engines of their own design. The company quickly added gasoline tractors to their product line; producing their first tractor in 1902. A host of Flinchbaugh Companies in York County sprung up from this seed.
Mrs. Janet E. Seitz, nee Reeves; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Saltzgiver, nee Pilkay; Mrs. Zelma I. Smith, nee Spangler; Mrs. Marilyn L. Deller, nee Wagman; and Mrs. Bernice L. Bailey, nee Falkenstine, are photographed working on the Hermetic compressor assembly line at the Grantley Plant of York Corporation in 1950. The
The York County History Center Collection contains a neat group photo of hundreds of York Manufacturing Company employees; which was tentatively dated circa 1895. On the back is a label for Swords Bros. Photographers, 25 West Market Street, York, PA. This post pinpoints February 3rd, 1902, as the date the
William Reed submitted several photos of the first Jeep undergoing testing at the Army’s Holabird Motor Transport Depot in Baltimore, and shared an inadvertent connection his father, Bill, had with that testing. The body portion, for driver and passengers, of the first Jeeps ever made were fabricated at the York-Hoover
Thirteen decades ago the village of Pleasureville was bustling with 17 thriving businesses. One of those businesses was the E. G. Keller store, already well on its way at being operated for 52-years by founder Emanuel G. Keller. He was one of seven businessmen that met to start the ball