This week’s lead History Mystery photo: This celebrity duo was in York, Pa., in 1972.
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Noted York County, Pa., artist J. Horace Rudy operated his art studio at 601 North Hartley Street in the first third of the 20th century. Charlie Bacas, a longtime resident of The Avenues, emailed this photo noting a vestige of Rudy’s time there – the leaded glass extension. Rudy specialized in works with glass, and his stained glass legacy appears in churches and homes around York County. This obscure building serves as another example of a now-obscure building or house around the county where a man or a woman of accomplishment did great things.
Gen. Jacob Loucks Devers was not only a ranking general in the European Theater in World War II. After the war, this York County, Pa., native and four-star general became a celebrity around his home county. York countian Carole (Gosnell) Canonico, for one, collected his autograph, as seen here on her 1963 York High ‘Tattler’ cover page.
The Rev. Henry E. Niles of York, Pa.’s First Presbyterian Church preached a sermon on
Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train stopped in York, Pa., on April 21, 1865. The train’s sad
This handbill from Chief Burger David S. Tanger calls for attendance at a Hanover service
Robert G. Leichliter, then-York City School Board president in York City and candidate for a
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York County’s love affair with all things on wheels means wheels of all sizes. As in here, miniature. As in model trains. This elaborate display at the Red Lion Train Station is open to the public this Christmas season. Years ago, the train station was the venue for the 77-mile-long Ma & Pa’s Railroad’s welcome in the borough, and when combined with its trolley service and highways, propelled the borough as a transportation and market center of southeastern York County in the 20th century.
This replica weather vane atop the Colonial Courthouse replica in York, Pa., is so prominent