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
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.
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
Dick Moore submitted photos of the buildings housing Rutter’s Family Restaurant in Springettsbury Township. He wrote: “I have good memories of the Avalong Family Restaurant for several years before it was sold to Rutter’s. After which many Moore family meals were taken at both of Rutter’s places at the Avalong
The latest layout of the proposed Mt. Zion Commons, on the northeast corner of East Market Street and Mount Zion Road, was presented to the Springettsbury Township Board of Supervisors on April 27, 2023 by the developers. That was done as a preview of their application of variance that will
Ted Schaefer inquired about the name of the Veterinarian with a practice on the triangular plot of land between South Queen Street and Springwood Road; in the “Queensgate” region of York Township. In that inquiry Ted pointed out a prior YorksPast post incorrectly identified that veterinary business as the Amber
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
A Flory family of veterans, two from the War of 1812 and one from the Revolutionary War, were the prominent builders in the Meadowbrook area during the first half of the 1800s. The first substantial structure to be built was a 2-1/2 story brick farmhouse, followed by another dwelling, a
During the walk between stops 3 and 4 of a Yorkshire History Walk, tales were shared about Bear’s Food Market and the various restaurants occupying that grocery store in later years. That store, on the Lincoln Highway, near the east entrance to Yorkshire, has a connection to Bear’s Department Store/Cafeteria,
Initials were occasionally carved into groves of trees at Gino’s Drive-In, along the Lincoln Highway in Springettsbury Township. A small grove of trees was situated east of Gino’s, bordering, and within, the Lincoln Woods Inn parking lot; however a larger grove of trees was located to the south of Gino’s.