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.
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.
The subject of the Fall History Night event in Springettsbury Township is “The 1940s and 1950s in Springettsbury.” The event will take place on Wednesday evening October 11, 2023, in the Community Room within the Springettsbury Township Administrative Complex at 1501 Mount Zion Road, York, PA 17402, at 7:00 P.M.
I’ll share stories about the Barshinger Family of Barshinger’s Mill at a meeting of the Red Lion Area Historical Society on October 28, 2021. The presentation will take place at St. John’s UCC at 7:00 p.m.; enter into the rear of the church, off of the rear parking lot. Address
Lottie Hull submitted her story of growing up on a farm in Windsor Township during the 1950s and early 1960s. The weekly highlight was going along with her mother on shopping trips to the Country Folk Shop, located in a Locust Grove area barn; then continued along East Prospect Road to Seitz’s Food Market in Longstown.
During 1924 the Red Lion Fair opened on Saturday August 16th in Fairmount Park and ran 8-days; closing the following Saturday. This was the first year that the Red Lion Fair was held both day and night. The fair included the staples: food, games, rides and entertainment. Exhibition buildings, such