Check out this neat, unrelated stuff about York, Pa., including the Hanover Theater and a new use of an old York church.
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An audience overflowed from Martin Library’s Silent Reading Room in a Fixing York forum this
This is the 1800s home of Dr. Adam Eisenhart, now part of the Stillmeadow Church of the Nazarene’s campus in Manchester Township, Pa. It’s among scores of properties on the Manchester Township Historical Society’s Historical Property Review. A digital file on the building lists the property of high historical value. ‘According to census data and genealogy research, the 1860 owner was Dr. Adam Eisenhart, 1811-1872. His wife was Leah Ferry (or Ferree), 1820-1882,’ the property review states. The historical society’s review consists of a mapped, searchable database of such historical structures.
This York County, Pa., building and its smokestack have brought up all kinds of stories, often spooky, over the years. It’s now used as a crematorium. So where does this building stand? Btw, what was its original use?
The York, Pa., Daily Record’s Jason Plotkin’s photos from above the Norman Wood Bridge are telling for several reasons. With a Susquehanna River bed like that, it’s obvious why the river over the centuries could not be navigated – or at least navigated by flatboats only in certain rainy seasons. It’s also why canals had to be put in on both sides of the river so that farmers and merchants could get their goods to market on the Chesapeake Bay.
Gen. Jacob L. Devers receives a hero’s welcome back after leading two Allied armies in
Pros at Hayman Studio mug for the camera at the North York commercial photographer’s quarter-century
Linked in/Neat stuff: A fitting tribute to James Getty/Difficult World War II days This is
George S. Schmidt penned this essay for the York Gazette on Feb. 6, 1892, urging
Stories and photos about the Lafayette Club, for years the bastion of York’s elite, are