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How a bird saw prime York County farmland in 1970: Linked in with neat...
For years, The Gazette and Daily produced annual calendars with interesting photographs from around York County, Pa. This aerial scene from the calendar’s November 1970 entry shows a photograph...
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Glen Rock’s I-83 interchange A Changin’: Linked in to York County history,...
More stuff below: York Springs/Sadlers bell tower/Aporkalypse Old road motels are fascinating. Actually, the now-demolished Rocky Ridge at the Glen Rock exit of Interstate 83 was a new road motel,...
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What is more York County than Yorkco, now Johnson Controls?
York Manufacturing Co. is the focus of this postcard featured on Joan Concilio’s Only in York County blog in 2011. Joan wrote that the postcard described York Manufacturing, forerunner of Johnson...
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Colonial York countians, statesmen caught lottery fever, too: Linked in to...
More stuff below: York’s first courthouse/Johnson Controls/Carriage Works Lottery tickets are going fast today in the runup to the $500 million Powerball drawing tonight for a record jackpot. York,...
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Pensupreme site on Codorus Creek’s north bank home to dairies for decades:...
More stuff below: Scarecrow Farm/Devil’s Hole/Elmwood Mansion Manchester Township’s recently released calendar – specifically its November 2013 pages – traces dairy stores from Emigsville Creamery,...
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War and Peace: military memorabilia, antique sleds for sale in Hopewell...
More stuff below: Martin-Parry/Susquehannock village/Emig Mansion Dick Boyd is a labor leader, author and noted World War II veteran. He’s also a collector and seller of antique sleds and toboggans....
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York County Civil War soldiers sought pensions to recognize wounds
This surgeon’s certificate includes details of a medical examination of Civil War veteran Wesley Green in 1890. Green, from York County, and other wounded Civil War veterans often went through such red...
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Dover Township explosion adds to long list of house blasts in York County’s past
This explosion and house fire along Carlisle Road last week captured the attention of the York community. The Dover Township, Pa., structure went up with no loss of life. It was next to a vet’s office...
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