York Town Square

…length and breadth of Pennsylvania’s streams was part of the conversation during Pennsylvania State DEP Secretary Kathleen McGinty’s recent visit to the York Daily Record/Sunday News. With all those stream…

Servicemen, spouses and volunteers pose at York County’s Pennsylvania Dutch Canteen in June 1945. Notice that on the wall at right a drawing is posted of the placement of the…

Historic York’s Barb Raid has put forth some more details in response to a reader’s question about why some old Pennsylvania German houses have two doors. She pointed to her…

…all about? and Classes offer rare op to learn Pennsylvania Dutch and All Pennsylvania Dutch posts from the start. The note attached to a news release from the Lancaster Mennonite…

…Pennsylvania Furniture Co. in York, PA. My guess is that furniture was manufactured in the early 1900s.” Furniture-making was a big business in York County in those days, and Pennsylvania…

…And the auction house gave further explanation: “Kentucky rifles – more correctly Pennsylvania long rifles – were the product of German gunsmiths who immigrated to new settlements in Pennsylvania and…

…Co., and both were fluent in Pennsylvania Dutch, a German dialect. His mother said she could converse with some prisoners with no problems. With others, she could not communicate at…

…rare op to learn Pennsylvania Dutch. – Mother Codorus has long served as leading light in obscure Dunkard Valley . – York County group preserving Pennsylvania Dutch language, heritage. –…

…York County resident Jonathan R. Stayer, who is also head of the reference section of the Pennsylvania State Archives, has called on local Civil War researchers to remember those who…

Democrat George Leader of York County, Pa., earned the Nov. 15, 1954, Time magazine cover after his election as Pennsylvania’s governor. (See additional photo below). Also of interest: Wolf would…