{"id":1827,"date":"2010-05-09T06:12:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T06:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2010\/05\/09\/emigsville-1\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T06:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:15:59","slug":"emigsville-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/emigsville-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation-oriented Emigsville a walkable York-area community with lots of community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acme Wagon Works opened in Emigsville in the late 1880s and grew into a major Manchester Township maker of wagons and parts. Later, sleds became its trademark product: <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2010\/04\/05\/american-acme-sleds\/\">Royal Plane sleds. <\/a>The business is long closed, but small businesses operate in its buildings today. Emigsville long played host to York County&#8217;s major north\/south road and railroad, plus the trolley system. In an interesting twist, Emigsville is a walkable town today &#8212; its layout is such that residents can stroll to the post office, the deli and church. Also of interest: <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2009\/10\/hafa-construction-roundtown\">50-year York County construction company&#8217;s closure: &#8216;It was a bittersweet day for all of us&#8217;<\/a> and <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2006\/11\/yes-its-pronounced-yorkshur-ju\">Yes sir, in York County, Pa., it&#8217;s pronounced &#8216;Yorkshur,&#8217; just like pudding<\/a> and <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2010\/04\/union-fire-company-manchester\">Cumberland County reseacher seeks info on Emigsville&#8217;s American Acme-built fire engine<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My York Sunday News column (5\/9\/10) explores how a loose-knit group of community-minded citizens, the <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2007\/08\/post-106\">Emigsville Heritage Project<\/a>, is working to maintain and promote community.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s particularly important in this unincorporated Manchester Township village, which does not have a council and mayor. Visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ydr.com\/opinion\/ci_15039555\">Emigsville shows how to build a sense of community<\/a>.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an additional thought. Emigsville remains a town where residents and visitors can walk to do any number of things&#8230; .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOne asset is its post office. It&#8217;s near the town&#8217;s center.<br \/>\nThe U.S. government and its postal service have done much to damage small-town life across America by building post offices outside their cores.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2010\/02\/catherine-meyer-red-lion\">Red Lion&#8217;s post office<\/a>, on the edge of town, is an example. Same goes for <a href=\"\/yorktownsquare\/2009\/02\/post-office-art\">York City&#8217;s <\/a>limited-use post office, for that matter.<br \/>\nPost offices are gathering points for people, and consider how many more people you can talk to walking rather than driving.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just hard to understand why the government would so intentionally pick at a community&#8217;s fabric that way.<br \/>\n<strong>Also of interest:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?search=emigsville&amp;IncludeBlogs=7\">All Emigsville-related posts from the start.<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/category\/all-posts\"><br \/>\nAll York Town Square posts from the start.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acme Wagon Works opened in Emigsville in the late 1880s and grew into a major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,46,47,4,11,36,12,9,28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-all-posts","category-explanationscontroversy","category-farms-fields","category-for-photo-fans","category-local-journalism-web","category-local-landmarks","category-made-in-york","category-nostalgia-memories","category-small-town-life","category-unsungobscure-sites","category-wheels-of-york"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transportation-oriented Emigsville a walkable York-area community with lots of community - York Town Square<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/emigsville-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transportation-oriented Emigsville a walkable York-area community with lots of community - York Town Square\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Acme Wagon Works opened in Emigsville in the late 1880s and grew into a major\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/emigsville-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"York Town Square\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-05-09T06:12:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-01-23T11:15:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim McClure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@JamesMcClure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim McClure\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/emigsville-1\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/emigsville-1\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jim McClure\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b48a19c4bb41c9ee494a3eb75485cdd0\"},\"headline\":\"Transportation-oriented Emigsville a walkable York-area community with lots of community\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-05-09T06:12:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-01-23T11:15:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/yorkblog.com\\\/yorktownsquare\\\/emigsville-1\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":329,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Archives, all posts\",\"Explanations\\\/controversy\",\"Farms, fields &amp; 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