York County service stations featured giveaways ranging from airplane rides to lunar landers. These promotional gifts were a means to entice customer loyalty for particular gasoline brands or stations. G. G. Naugle’s service station operated during the 1930s; along the Lincoln Highway in Stony Brook, Springettsbury Township, York County, PA.
Stonework signature details have been used successfully to verify structures as former One-Room Schoolhouses. Neiman’s One-Room Schoolhouse is used as an example. There were four Neiman’s One-Room Schoolhouses in York County; located in Lower Windsor Township, West Manchester Township, and two in Conewago Township. Neiman’s Grammar (grades 5-8) and Neiman’s
Dallastown’s Merchants Box Company made boatloads of distinctive wooden file boxes for the National Archives. Recent queries about Merchants Box Company, in conjunction with a National Register application, caused me to look deeper into my Merchants investigation, started over 25-years ago; as part of Barshinger family research. That was when
During the early 1900s, there were at least four Smeltzer Cigar Factories in Bittersville; a small village located at the end of the trolley line from York into southeastern York County. Cigar manufacturing was the dominant industry in York County in the early 1900s; both in terms of number of
Miss Virginia Ruth was given the honor of unveiling a dedication plaque to her fellow men and women of industry who make York County the Community of Craftsmen. At the September 13, 1949 event, Miss Ruth was still actively employed by the P. H. Glatfelter Company, after over 60 straight
Through 1960, North Hills Road in Springettsbury Township was reduced to a single lane of traffic as it shared the railroad underpass with Three-Mile Run. In this 1952 view, the car is traveling north; with Three-Mile Run located at the west side of the underpass. In 1960, the North Hills
Bank barns get their name by being built on the side of a hill, or bank, so that two separate floor levels could be accessed from ground level directly. If a hill was not available, an earthen ramp was added against one of the, often stone, ground floor barn walls
The Lincoln Highway Garage in Wrightsville was the first such named in York County and possibly the earliest in the country. Harry E. Bailey established this garage as early as 1915; less than two years after the initial organizational meeting of the Lincoln Highway Association in 1913, and only one
I’ve zoomed-in on a section of a record album cover entitled: “York Division of Borg-Warner presents ‘all in the YORK family;’ a recording of one of those “sales musicals” performed at a destination sales meeting in Bermuda during October-November 1972. Those musicals usually played off of a Broadway play or
Publishing houses producing York County newspapers in 1899 were defined by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as factories. York County had three newspapers based in York City that year, however there were also nine newspapers published around the county. I’ll be presenting my talk “Countdown of the Top 50 York County