This year’s reunion of the Casper Glattfelter Association of America focuses on the Glatfelders in the Civil War in connection with Gettysburg 150th.
The Pennsylvania Dutch Archives
Yorktownsquare covers Gettysburg Sesquicentennial Remembrance Day, the Casper Glattfelter family, Tom Wolf’s run for Pennsylvania governor and Loganville Fire Chief Rodney Miller’s death in the line of duty.
Diehl’s one-room school, located in North Codorus Township, York County, was one of 300 such schools that representated a way of life for generations. John ‘Otts’ Hufnagel of the Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society, sent this image along with a narrative of one-room school life by another local student of history, the late Roger E. Shaffer. One-room schools continue to fascinate folks, so yorktownsquare.com profiles them in an occasional series.
Mugs, plates and a pair of bowling shoes are among the items to be auctioned from the longtime Lafayette Club in York, Pennsylvania. The former private men’s club closed its doors last year
Strickler family members and York County, Pa., preservationists are concerned about the future of this old farmhouse near the York County Prison in Springettsbury Township. York County Commissioners say the house will remain standing.
Casper Glattfelder’s legacy: Glatfelters, Gladfelters, Glotfeltys, Clodfelters and Clotfelters – and more
Yorktownsquare.com explores York County towns, what’s off Interstate 83’s exists, an exhibit opening on Lancaster County Amish and Mennonites and a recent black history fair.
Yorktownsquare.com covers the day when bottle-shaped cars rolled around York, a visit by the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and a Civil War 150 event sponsored by Good News Jail & Prison Ministry.
Dr. Charles H. Glatfelter, York County native and professor emeritas of Gettysburg College, died this week. Among other things, he was a leading authority about the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Black Rock, a village in Mainheim Township in York County’s southeastern tip, was an early German Baptist settlement.