Discover original research into the last Hellam Township distilleries. Two sites are featured: the Hiestand Distillery (1851-1867) at the South Broad Street location, and a Valley Acres Road location that was the site of the Hellam Distilling Company (1890-1908) and the New Hellam Distilling Company (1911-1923).
Most people remember Conrad’s Delicatessen at the northeast corner of South Queen Street and Springdale Avenue. However the building housing their deli began as Stoppard’s Garage, a community edifice that had a notable impact on the Springdale neighborhood.
A conversation about a house move in the East York development of Springettsbury Township surfaced a memory of the location where a Lincoln Highway concrete marker stood in that neighborhood. An illustrated sequence of events tells the tale of verifying that recollection, plus deducing when and why the marker was removed.
Boy Scouts from coast-to-coast installed concrete posts nearly every mile along the Lincoln Highway on September 1st, 1928. Within York County, the task was completed by 27 troops of York County Boy Scouts placing 7 new signs and installing 26 concrete posts. This post explore a Lincoln Highway marker that still stands just east of Ducktown Road.
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.
Map exploration and newspaper research were used to prove a postcard shows President William H. Taft speaking to York, Pennsylvania, residents from his rail car on the morning of May 31, 1909. He stopped in York for several hours, before attending a Memorial Day monument dedication at Gettysburg later in the day.
Northern Central Railway operations are explored, from the mid-1800s to the present along North Street in York, Pennsylvania, in this first of a series of YorksPast posts. This article explores early passenger stations, plus freight depots to the present day.
The story of an old stone structure in Springettsbury Township reveals it has history as a Still House and Farm Mill. The former Still House is located at the northeast corner of North Sherman Street and Lower Glades Road, which is on the property of the Springettsbury Township Wastewater Treatment Plant.
New Years Day of 1909 marked the initial Mummers Parade in York, Pennsylvania. Charles Zullinger’s costume cost $5,000 and 30-pages, in colonial attire, were required to hold up his massive cape and train embroidered with white roses. A postcard was printed showing them marching on South George Street.
Green Acres is a Springettsbury Township housing development begun in the early 1950s. Today it is not very well know, because when only a few years old the proposed placement of Interstate-83 halted further housing construction on 70-percent of the planned site.