The Big Hand Tourist Camp was a seasonal tent camp for traveling tourists. Opening in 1925, it was located along the south side of the Lincoln Highway in a field east of Stony Run. In 1928, the entrance to the camp was one of 26 locations in York County where
John Dauber Florist business in York County was not just a flower shop. For more than 70-years this family owned business operated from an array of large greenhouses to far-reaching plant nurseries; with ties to the Susquehanna Trail, Arsenal Road and ultimately Route 30. In the circa 1950s eastward looking
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
The York Financial Center of UNIVEST, 2901 Whiteford Road, is sponsoring a Witness Tree event Saturday morning 5/14/22 at 10:30 a.m. I have been invited to share the story of the Pennsylvania German Farmhouse, repurposed as a financial business years ago, and now the home of the York office of
The Glades Auction House, located at 3409 Druck Valley Road, York, PA 17406, has served to repurpose The Glades 2-Room Schoolhouse. This historic structure will be the site of a History Night event on Wednesday April 13, 2022, at 7:00 PM. The topic of the talk is: “Early Schooling in
“Clockmaker began York’s Railroad Heritage” is the title of a Phineas Davis talk, which has been presented seven times. Comments following each talk always resulted in additional research, which has continually fine-tuned the story. Suggested additions were also made; such as the story of black machinist William Wood, who worked
At stop number 4 of a Yorkshire History Walk, the story of the first church in Yorkshire was shared. The present Yorkshire United Methodist Church congregation recognizes their first Yorkshire church site, via displaying the 1926 cornerstone of the Yorkshire Evangelical Church. During the Yorkshire History Walk on September 18th,
Research into the often-asked question: “Why is a Graveyard along Eastern Boulevard at Stone Ridge Road?” revealed a surprise. It was generally known, that the graveyard accepted burials from churches, which stood directly across Stone Ridge Road. However the burial ground origins go back further; to at least 1830 when
In 1900, Mahlon Haines met a Heiress from Lancaster aboard a ship returning from Europe and planned to get married. Her Daddy offered to set Mahlon up in business in York. Is that the real story of how Mahlon Haines ended up in York? And, who was the Heiress from
Canal bridge illustrations and photos are used to answer questions of how did the Codorus Navigation canal cross paths with intersecting waterways; such as Mill Creek and Dee Run in York County. An often-related follow-up question concerns the same issue when the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal crossed paths with intersecting