Miss Virginia Ruth was given the honor of unveiling a dedication plaque to her fellow men and women of industry who make York County the Community of Craftsmen. At the September 13, 1949 event, Miss Ruth was still actively employed by the P. H. Glatfelter Company, after over 60 straight
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
The Lincoln Highway Garage in Wrightsville was the first such named in York County and possibly the earliest in the country. Harry E. Bailey established this garage as early as 1915; less than two years after the initial organizational meeting of the Lincoln Highway Association in 1913, and only one
I’ve zoomed-in on a section of a record album cover entitled: “York Division of Borg-Warner presents ‘all in the YORK family;’ a recording of one of those “sales musicals” performed at a destination sales meeting in Bermuda during October-November 1972. Those musicals usually played off of a Broadway play or
Publishing houses producing York County newspapers in 1899 were defined by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as factories. York County had three newspapers based in York City that year, however there were also nine newspapers published around the county. I’ll be presenting my talk “Countdown of the Top 50 York County
The Conewago Oil and Gas Company was chartered in 1889 to wildcat for York County oil and gas fields. A wildcatter is an American term for those who drill wildcat wells, which are exploration oil wells drilled in areas not known to be oil fields. Last weeks Wild Cat Glen
This image of the Glen Orchard lingers as a ghostly echo of Hellam Hills past. The photo ghosts an image of the Glen Orchard; onto a photo taken two months ago, at the exact spot where that hotel once stood. The Glen Orchard hotel sat in front of a high
Eddie Herr and Mahlon Haines were influential in establishing horse show grounds near the Haines Shoe House. Those York County Horsemen’s Association grounds were dedicated during 1955, in hosting the Annual York Horse Show on July 4th. At the time, among Eddie Herr’s many business interests was a stable of
The post about The 1920s Lincoln Highway Garage in Hallam produced feedback from many aggravated readers; during my journeys of this past week. They all read the version on the ydr site, where the blog text and all links were edited out; leaving only most of the photos. Several readers