YorksPast

The first YorksPast post occurred July 26th 2012; therefore with this 100th post, I’m averaging four and one-half posts per week.  An inventory of the general topics and locations that have been my subjects resulted in this 100-tile mosaic that breaks down these posts into seven general categories.

A clickable index to the initial 100 YorksPast posts follows.  Future plans going into 2013 are also noted.

 

The initial 100 YorksPast posts can be broken down into the following seven categories:

• About YorksPast and Memories (4 Posts)
• Lower Windsor Township (18 Posts)
• One-Room Schools (17 Posts)
• Railcar Gold (20 Posts)
• Railcar Historical Background (17 Posts)
• Springettsbury Township (12 Posts)
• Various Locations (12 Posts)

About YorksPast and Memories (4 Posts)

• What is YorksPast?  7/26/12
• What does the Mickey Mouse Club have to do with YorksPast?  7/27/12
• Memories of Christmas 1955  12/25/12
• Marking 100th YorksPast Post with a Tiled Mosaic; Post Index and Future Plans  12/28/12

Lower Windsor Township (18 Posts)

• Taxing Window Glass in 1798  8/10/12
• Eighteenth Century Social Security  8/17/12
• Talk about Dosch Burial Grounds; and YorksPast Lineup for Week of September 24th  9/17/12
• Christian Rathfon Family in Pleasant Garden from 1784 to 1827  10/5/12
• What Happens When One Projects an 1821 Map onto a 1953 Map?  10/8/12
• Michael Dosch Family; Late 1700s in Eastern York County  10/12/12
• Christopher Dosch Family; Father of York Co.’s Michael Dosch  10/19/12
• George Dosch Family Part 1; Uncle of York Co.’s Michael Dosch  10/26/12
• George Dosch Family Part 2; Uncle of York Co.’s Michael Dosch  11/2/12
• George Dosch Family Part 3; Uncle of York Co.’s Michael Dosch  11/9/12
• George Dosch Family Part 4; Stepfather of York Co.’s Peter Klein  11/16/12
• Susquehanna River Bridge Planned at Long Level in 1793; George Dosch Family Part 5  11/23/12
• The Earliest Susquehanna River Bridge to York County is Authorized in 1793; Part 1  11/27/12
• Peter Kline Family from about 1773 in Eastern York County  11/30/12
• The Earliest Susquehanna River Bridge to York County is Authorized in 1793; Part 2  12/4/12
• John Gilbert Family Part 1; from 1772 in Eastern York County  12/7/12
• Who Can Solve The Mystery of These Steps with Five Clues?  12/14/12
• Second & Third Union Church Buildings at Canadochly  12/17/12

One-Room Schools (17 Posts)

• The Burnt Cabin One-Room School of Hellam Township  8/13/12
• York County One-Room Schools (A-B)  8/14/12
• Schoolhouse Symbols on Maps; and Introducing the Longevity Code  8/20/12
• York County One-Room Schools (C-D)  8/21/12
• Enhancing Family Histories Part 1; Brenneman’s School Memories  8/24/12
• Schoolhouse Symbols on Maps, Part 2; and a 1921 Brenneman’s School Photo  8/27/12
• York County One-Room Schools (E-G)  8/28/12
• One Room Schools Talk by The Stewartstown Historical Society; and Brenneman’s Schoolhouse of North Hopewell Township  9/10/12
• York County One-Room Schools (H-K)  9/11/12
• York County One-Room Schools (L-M)  9/25/12
• York County One-Room Schools (N-P)  10/2/12
• York County One-Room Schools (Q-R)  10/9/12
• Original Location of Neff’s One-Room Schoolhouse?  10/15/12
• York County One-Room Schools (S-T)  10/16/12
• York County One-Room Schools (U-Z)  10/23/12
• Where was Raab’s One-Room Schoolhouse Originally Located; When was it Built?  11/6/12
• Mystery Solved, York Township Schoolhouse Moves to Red Lion; plus Three Questions  11/13/12

Railcar Gold (20 Posts)

• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 1 . . Eureka . . Part 1  8/2/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 1 . . Eureka . . Part 2  8/9/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 1 . . Eureka . . Part 3  8/16/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 1 . . Eureka . . Part 4  8/23/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 1 . . Eureka . . Part 5  8/30/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 2 . . Orphan . . Part 1  9/13/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 2 . . Orphan . . Part 2  9/27/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 2 . . Orphan . . Part 3  10/4/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 2 . . Orphan . . Part 4  10/11/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 2 . . Orphan . . Part 5  10/18/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 2 . . Orphan . . Part 6  10/25/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 3 . . Missing . . Part 1  11/1/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 3 . . Missing . . Part 2  11/8/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 3 . . Missing . . Part 3  11/15/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 3 . . Missing . . Part 4  11/22/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 3 . . Missing . . Part 5  11/29/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 3 . . Missing . . Part 6  12/6/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 4 . . Stowaway . . Part 1  12/13/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 4 . . Stowaway . . Part 2  12/20/12
• RAILCAR GOLD Chapter 4 . . Stowaway . . Part 3  12/27/12

Railcar Historical Background (17 Posts)

• Who were Billmeyer & Small?  8/1/12
• Billmeyer & Small as Central Theme in RAILCAR GOLD  8/8/12
• John D. Denney, Jr., Railroad & Trolley Historian  8/15/12
• Billmeyer & Small Companies’ Spring Garden Car Works  8/22/12
• Saga of Billmeyer & Small; John D. Denney, Jr., Part 2  9/12/12
• Historical Background for Dan DeWyatt’s Early Life; and George R. Prowell  9/26/12
• York, One of the Earliest Railroad Manufacturing Towns; Phineas Davis  10/3/12
• The Narrow Gauge Railroad Movement and York; Billmeyer & Small at the Forefront  10/10/12
• An 1850 Ferry with Real Horse Power  10/17/12
• Was York First? It’s All In The Details.  10/24/12
• York Car Works of Billmeyer & Small  10/31/12
• Where does Rail Car Manufacturing fall within The Rise of Industrial York?  11/3/12
• Billmeyer & Small Rail Cars Were Also for Export  11/7/12
• Why are Billmeyer & Small still Shipping Rail Cars via the Isthmus and Cape Horn in 1879?  11/14/12
• Billmeyer & Small Company produced a large variety of Specialty Cars  11/21/12
• York Rail Car Manufacturers & Their Influence on the Route of the Ma & Pa Railroad; Two Early Rail Routes went through Loganville and then onto Hanover Junction  11/28/12
• Billmeyer, Lancaster County named by Son & Son-in-Law of Charles Billmeyer  12/5/12

Springettsbury Township (12 Posts)

• The Hermit House of Springettsbury Township  7/31/12
• Family History of The Hermit of Springettsbury Township  8/3/12
• Enhancing Family Histories Part 3, Reunions: Smith, Ferree, Anstine, Barshinger  9/28/12
• Location of Andrew & Mary Ferree’s 254-Acre Property in York County  10/1/12
• A Road Named N.O.P., Arsenal and Whiteford; Part 1 – Avalong  11/10/12
• A Road Named N.O.P., Arsenal and Whiteford; Part 2 – Bofors at York Safe & Lock Co.  11/17/12
• A Road Named N.O.P., Arsenal and Whiteford; Part 3 – Naval Ordnance Plant, NOP Road Ads  11/26/12
• A Road Named N.O.P., Arsenal and Whiteford; Part 4 – New 1948 N O P Route Cuts Traffic Hazards  12/2/12
• Narrow Gauge Railway Along Stonewood Road in Springettsbury Township and Plot of Daniel Brubaker’s 280-Acres; i.e. location of Camp Security  12/9/12
• Narrow Gauge Railway Along Stonewood Road in Springettsbury Township to the Stony Brook Slate & Brick Company  12/11/12
• Stony Brook Slate & Brick Company with a Narrow Gauge Railway in Springettsbury Township  12/12/12
• A Road Named N.O.P., Arsenal and Whiteford; Part 5 – Housing Development on 1930 Map containing a Whiteford Street  12/24/12

Various Locations (12 Posts)

• York County authorized to name summit Buzzards Roost  7/30/12
• Lancaster County Maps have York County Information  8/6/12
• Guess the Time Required to Paint an INCREDIBLY Long Bridge  8/7/12
• Veterans Memorial Gold Star Healing and Peace Garden; & Upcoming Talks  8/29/12
• Abe Brenneman becomes an Inn Keeper in York Township  8/31/12
• YorksPast Lineup for Week of September 10th and Veterans Memorial Gold Star Healing and Peace Garden Revisited  9/2/12
• Enhancing Family Histories Part 2; Ancestors’ Land  9/14/12
• Why is Peavine Island in York County?  9/24/12
• How did Barshinger Creek get its name?  10/21/12
• Frankenstorm at Accomac 1945; and 1875  10/27/12
• Barshinger’s Mill Site along Barshinger Creek  10/29/12
• Eliot Ness cracks the York Safe & Lock Company  11/20/12

 

Future YorksPast plans going into 2013

If you’ve checked the one-room schoolhouse index lately, you’ve noticed that I’m continuing to update the location index as additional sources come to light.  This will continue into 2013; along with features on selected schoolhouses.

I’ve signed up to teach an upcoming OLLI Course: From York Manufacturing Company to York Ice Machinery Corporation, the First 60-Years of York Corporation.  Look for bits and pieces of this talk to appear in YorksPast.

I’ve located some interesting sources at the State Library that will be used for posts related to the growth of various industries in Pennsylvania at the turn of the Twentieth Century.  I plan to do a series on all locations within York County.

Every Thursday, I post the next part of my RAILCAR GOLD novel; a historically accurate multi-generational fictional tale of hidden treasure primarily set in York County during the later half of the Nineteenth Century.  The main character is now on a journey where by happenstance he passes through York, is befriended by Charles Billmeyer and decides to stay.  The main character spends the greater part of his life associated with the rail car manufacturing business Billmeyer & Small.

Generally every Tuesday I write the next few pages of RAILCAR GOLD; to do so, I dig into my files of historical background that might be associated with that part of the story.  The historical background for Thursday’s episode many times will be posted the prior day.

Reading the Headlines: A Quick Index to All YorksPast Posts