This post answers queries of what happened to the M/S World Discoverer, that have surfaced ever since Jim McClure shared the image of the overgrown ship on Retro York from the international photo gallery VIBE Facebook group.
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Bob Kessler shared some details about his grandparents that prompted interesting questions about Eddie Herr, primarily related to his 2600 East Market Street property in Springettsbury Township. Eddie Herr called that 4-acre property, containing his suburban ranch home, with multiple businesses and stables, ‘Belly Acres.’
Map exploration and newspaper research were used to prove a postcard shows President William H. Taft speaking to York, Pennsylvania, residents from his rail car on the morning of May 31, 1909. He stopped in York for several hours, before attending a Memorial Day monument dedication at Gettysburg later in the day.
Northern Central Railway operations are explored, from the mid-1800s to the present along North Street in York, Pennsylvania, in this first of a series of YorksPast posts. This article explores early passenger stations, plus freight depots to the present day.
This is an expanded history of The Romans, a 1960s rock and roll group that hailed from the Yorkshire region of Springettsbury Township in York County. Thanks to band members Thom Elicker and Dick Reisinger for sharing their memories and photos.
The Romans was a 1960s rock and roll group that hailed from the Yorkshire region of Springettsbury Township in York County. The founding members of the band included York Suburban High School students: Richard Reisinger, Thomas Elicker, Barry Leach, and Thomas Henry.
The story of an old stone structure in Springettsbury Township reveals it has history as a Still House and Farm Mill. The former Still House is located at the northeast corner of North Sherman Street and Lower Glades Road, which is on the property of the Springettsbury Township Wastewater Treatment Plant.
New Years Day of 1909 marked the initial Mummers Parade in York, Pennsylvania. Charles Zullinger’s costume cost $5,000 and 30-pages, in colonial attire, were required to hold up his massive cape and train embroidered with white roses. A postcard was printed showing them marching on South George Street.
Green Acres is a Springettsbury Township housing development begun in the early 1950s. Today it is not very well know, because when only a few years old the proposed placement of Interstate-83 halted further housing construction on 70-percent of the planned site.
The second in a series of Now & Then stories associated with the origins of the building housing new location of York County History Center at 121 North Pershing Avenue in York. This post focuses on the modern generator room of the Edison Plant, which was constructed in three stages between 1904 and 1914; and now houses History Center Library & Archives.