Windsor Park, sandwiched between Loucks Mill Road, North Sherman Street and Route 30, is an intriguing part of Spring Garden Township.
\nIt\u2019s easy to drive by the streets leading into the development without even knowing it\u2019s there.
\nWindsor, Windsor Township, Lower Windsor Township. Windsor Park is at least fourth on the list of best-known Windsors in York County… .<\/p>\n
\nThe area, really just a neighborhood, was founded about the turn of the 20th century. It appears to have been a less affluent version of East York, home for workers coming to York during the growth years of the Industrial Revolution.
\nIt had its own fire station \u2014 the now-closed Friendship Fire Co. No. 8 \u2014 and its own church \u2014 the still-operating Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran. Its 1931-vintage school now plays host to a business.
\nAs for parks, the neighborhood has two in business today: the Harold Custis Ballfield and the separate Windsor Park playground.
\nThe community boasts a variety of housing types. Duplexes, two-story frame structures, new ranch-style houses and engaging bungalows that resemble summer cottages.
\nThe neighborhood must have been a neat place to grow up \u2014 off the well-traveled path but near everything. And Windsor Park still has an attractive neighborhood feel.
\nBut one thinks about its brighter future.
\nAs suburban homes become more and more expensive, families will discover Windsor Park, Grantley, Mount Rose and other places on York\u2019s fringe with affordable housing that can be fixed up. Neighborhood kids go to suburban schools, and it\u2019s only minutes from malls, Harley-Davidson\u2019s plants and restaurants. It would be within walking distance of York\u2019s proposed minor league ballpark.
\nThat\u2019s the glass-half-full assessment of Windsor Park.
\nAnother view might go like this: The decay of the city inevitably will engulf Windsor Park and other older suburbs unless the city regains its footing on its own or with the help of more affluent parts of Spring Garden Township and other townships.
\nBut for now, Windsor Park represents an overlooked and intriguing community from the past \u2014 and the future.
\nOther overlooked York County sites and landmarks (See post under York Town Square):
\n— The Little Courthouse
\n— Prospect Hill Cemetery
\n— War Mothers Memorial
\n— Work War II USO at former York County Academy gymnasium
\n— York\u2019s Salem Square soldiers monument
\n— York\u2019s Cookes House
\n–York\u2019s rowhouses
\n–Wrightsville\u2019s monuments
\n— The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge
\n— Memorial trees along highways Route 30 & Susquehanna Trai.
\n— The Inches
\n— Camp Stewartstown
\n— The Wrightsville Bridge supports
\n— New York Wire Co.\u2019s factory whistle
\n— Mary Ann Furnace
\n–York\u2019s Hartman Building
\n— Hanover\u2019s Iron Mike and The Picket<\/p>\n