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
Mike Spyker continues to keep tabs on the varied crops grown in the fields along Blackbridge Road; between the York Mill of Ardent Mills and the York County Solid Waste Incinerator. This time the crop is Brassicas; just as it is beginning to bloom. Mike supplied the photos, just as
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
James Fishel is the latest to comment about the 1959 proposal for a Route 30 cloverleaf interchange at North Sherman Street. In 2020, I initially wrote about that interchange, using specifics Don May recalled about the State proposed plan to construct a real East-West Bypass of York; i.e. four-lanes, limited
Turk Pierce, former Editorial Page Editor of The York Dispatch, walked 1.8-miles to Miller’s One-Room Schoolhouse in the York Valley; from a hilltop home, adjacent to the present Rocky Ridge Park. He shared a detailed description of that walk, which allowed illustrating the route via a historic aerial photo. Alpine
Don Kauffman shared several photos of the East York Bowling Center, once located in the lower level of York County Shopping Center; now known as the York Marketplace. Don suspected an error in a prior YorksPast post; however with living in Arizona, he was not able to view that area
The last of 21 York County townships to form, via dividing up the land of an existing township, was Springettsbury Township in 1891; by carving 16.38-Square Miles out of Spring Garden Township; north and east of Mill Creek. This post looks at why and how Springettsbury Township came into existence,
A 1905 advertisement by The Pennsylvania State College, which was renamed The Pennsylvania State University in 1953, highlighted: Tuition is at present Free in All Courses. The ad is located inside the front cover of the 1905-1906 Directory of the Teachers and School Directors of York County and York City,