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How Downtown Jacobus changed in the 1980s: Linked in with neat York County...
Neat stuff, below: ‘Enlisting Time’ exhibit/Dover Township’s Admire/West York’s champs Some folks remember when Pines Pharmacy was located in this old building in Jacobus. By old, this building, as...
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Lightning flashes spotlight on Hanover’s Market House: Linked in with neat...
More stuff below: Haines Acres/Band camp/York City Hall One of the seemingly daily parade of storms that are hitting this area produced a lightning strike that damaged Hanover’s market. Specifically,...
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5 quick facts about the wide Susquehanna River’s long Veterans Memorial Bridge
Artist Suzanne Satterfield drew Veterans Memorial Bridge’s when it opened in 1930. Notice the toll booth, center. Toll were removed in World War II and have never been reimposed. Its predecessor, a...
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Battle of Wrightsville – rare photograph of the battlefield: Linked in to...
Other stuff below: Electric Map/Articles of Confederation/Leader remembered This aerial photograph of Wrightsville, its bridges and the Susquehanna River is a two-fer. You get a view of all this,...
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Battle of Wrightsville – Rare photograph of the battlefield, Part 2: Linked...
More stuff below: Steve Stetler/Stewartstown Railroad/Fall foliage Scott Mingus of York took a rare photograph of Wrightsville in 1930 and turned it into a history lesson about the Civil War. See the...
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Wrightsville’s Burning of the Bridge diorama tells story of adventure,...
The often-overlooked Burning of the Bridge diorama does an effective job of explaining the Civil War Battle of Wrightsville and the subsequent burning of the Susquehanna River bridge connecting...
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York artist illustrates Creativity Unleashed: Linked in to history, 1/21/13
More stuff below: Jim Tate/Earl Weaver/Perdue’s plant York, Pa., has a lot of working artists. Always has had a lineup of them: William Wagner, Lewis Miller, Stephen Etnier. That’s part of the impetus...
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Trolleys, trains and automobiles linked Wrightsville and York
An auto crosses the Veterans Memorial Bridge, left, as the late 1890s railroad/vehicle bridge spans the Susquehanna River on the right. That combo rail/auto bridge last until the early 1960s when it...
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Gettysburg’s old Electric Map: How many lights dotted the battlefield? Linked...
Susquehanna ferry/Hex Murder/Steam into History The old Gettysburg Electric Map is fascinating. For one thing, this photo from its new home in Hanover shows the size of the map at ground level,...
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Shrewsbury’s Amanda Berry Smith: ‘Our house was one of the main stations of...
Amanda Berry Smith was a bit of a renaissance woman. She grew up in York County, Pa., and as an adult, she served as an evangelist. She’s remembered as a chronicler of the Underground Railroad...
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Many have seen this York County-area clock tower, but can you immediately...
Linked in/Neat stuff Dallastown/Codorus St. reunion/Big fish story This tower is familiar to many in South Central Pennsylvania. Still, when presented with the question about whether you can locate...
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Civil War’s Battle of Wrightsville: Looking to honor an unsung, unknown Union...
This diorama of the Battle of Wrightsville, part of a museum in that York County, Pa., river town, shows Blue and Gray troop positions on Sunday, June 28, 1863. An audio presentation describing the...
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Ice slabs on the Susquehanna River ‘boomed like cannon fire’ in 1959
These Susquehanna River ice chunks are like ice chips compared to past ice jams seen off the York County, Pa., shore. Former York countian Jim Buckner produced Long Level ice breakup photos from 1959....
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New throwback lights on Susquehanna River span: ‘This bridge is going to be...
See that lamp on the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, aka Veterans Memorial Bridge, soon after its opening in 1930? They’ll be back or something like them as part of bridge relighting project. This photo...
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Lancaster County’s Columbia target of Smithsonian’s search-and-enjoy mission
The National Watch and Clock Museum received a shout out when Smithsonian.com listed Columbia as one of the 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2014. ‘Columbia is also home to one of the world’s only...
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These 5 images explore Wrightsville’s bridgehead, upstream and down
1. News about the installation of replica lights along the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, aka Veterans Memorial Bridge, lured me to the 1930 bridge. I captured these downstream scenes from the...
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Lancaster County’s Wind Cave emits coolness more intense than car’s air...
Linked in/Neat stuff: New mural in York County/York, center of the universe York County, Pa., has so much history and just interesting natural and man-made history that it’s easy to forget that western...
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Adding York County sites to Underground Railroad list would help show ‘This...
The National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom has added another Lancaster County site to its roster. The remains of the Columbia/Wrightsville Bridge, seen upriver from the...
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A wide-angle look at the mile-wide Susquehanna River
Linked in/Neat stuff: Voni B. Grimes’ early years/Interesting Wrightsville building It’s that time of year – a chance for everyone to see the best pictures from the cameras of York, Pa., Daily Record...
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Pa. orchards, vintage car, driver with pipe: Surely, this is York/Adams at...
Linked in/Neat stuff: Is York’s downtown safe?/Where is this Vietnam memorial? There’s something about this photo by Clare Becker of the Evening Sun in Hanover that makes you pause to take it all in....
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