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The Great Wagon Road ran smack through York County, with settlers taking the branch west to Franklin County and others moving through Spring Grove, Hanover and Frederick.

Continue ReadingFor centuries, pioneers moved along the Great Wagon Road in York County to points south and north

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  • For centuries, pioneers moved along the Great Wagon Road in York County to points south and north
  • These key York County sites benefited from Tom Wolf’s Pa. governorship
  • In the line of duty: York County police, fire deaths exceed 50 in past 120 years
  • Children’s Home of York, Pa.: Orphanage symbol of a 19th-century community growing up
  • Hometown History, Season 5: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo Backstory
  • Tramping York County’s streams and banks in quest of mills and millers
  • ‘American Ramble’s’ Neil King Jr. about York: ‘Fences were coming down and the memories freed’
  • Tragedy at Codorus Creek: Man drowns in sewage in Depression-era York County
  • Gettysburg’s George Spangler Farm: Stories of the wounded and dying
  • York-born Arthur Evans, gay rights advocate, enjoyed banquet of life
  • York stands alone in riding through Confederate lines to surrender in Civil War
  • In York, rebels demand mounds of dollars, food, supplies. Who paid? Who didn’t?
  • Thomas Jefferson slept here: Hanover’s Sign of the Horse Tavern
  • A foul canal’s restoration: Codorus Greenway designed to turn creek into park
  • When Latinos came to York County: They brought their own cooks
  • York’s Continental Square: Makeover to invite folks to come there and stay a while
  • Renowned author Rita Mae Brown remembers York County in her writings and visits
  • Hometown History, Season 4: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo Backstory
  • Slavery happened in York County, too
  • How one meeting cut through years of York County police dissension
  • Fighting drought in York County: Hire a rainmaker or dig a lake
  • Creatives & recreationists: Galleries & outdoors replacing old brick factories
  • Restorations line up with anniversaries: York County’s historical & cultural renaissance
  • Beleaguered Congress in York: ‘I will not quit my post’
  • York County’s Surrender House: A quiet farmhouse in the village of Farmers
  • A walk to wonder: Taking in Penn Street’s challenges and promise
  • Civil War religious objectors faced a ‘crisis of conscience’
  • Their segregated sanctuary prospered – and then disappeared
  • Courthouses indicate what York County likes
  • Tough work for mother: Raising 12 kids on a York County farm
  • Delta & its region: Slate roofs & slate foundations
  • Native Lands: Short peaceful path crosses longtime place of conflict
  • When teacher James L. Smallwood came to York County
  • Hometown History, Season 3: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo Backstory
  • Montez Parker: Seeks equality as new normal in hometown of York
  • WWII vet moved from York City Cemetery to Indiantown Gap
  • Gettysburg rail station hosted Lincoln’s coming and going
  • Black & Latino history studies: Logjam breaks in York County
  • DIY work in old York cemeteries, unsung memorials and weedy lots
  • Feuding over a baby’s death: When people can’t afford a gravedigger
  • Florence Gipe viewed as ‘brilliant and strict with new ideas’
  • York in 1786: A riot to reclaim Jacob Bixler’s cow
  • Wrightsville: One town, Three Civil War heroes
  • York’s Ladies Aid Society: Formed to take on crisis in war
  • Graveyard at York’s First Presbyterian: ‘When the very stones cry out’
  • St. Paul (Lebanon) Lutheran Church: Faith and resiliency for 200+ years
  • Hanover & York: A new start after centuries of disunion?
  • Russian heritage infused in Crostwater Distillery
  • Dr. Robert L. Ellis delivers York County’s first blood transfusions
  • Unsung York County Civil War sites to visit
  • Codorus Creek: Millers rush to court to stake liquid gold claims
  • Hometown History, Season 2: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo backstory
  • Horn Farm: This old York County place fights adversity
  • Daisy Myers: ‘Sticks ‘n Stones … but words will never harm you’
  • York College professor fishes for toxins
  • York County one-room schools: When students drank water from the same ladle
  • The influential artwork of Lorann Jacobs
  • Preserving, documenting, demolishing York County
  • Mashing the Johnny Appleseed Legend
  • Drumming: It used to be prohibited for Native Americans, now it’s celebrated
  • Goodridge House: Early photography, Underground Railroad intersect here
  • Where York’s Philadelphia & Newberry streets meet
  • Hometown History, Season 1: Jamie and Domi’s YoCo backstory
  • “Access to Justice”: The mantra of liberty for the Golden Venture
  • Continental Square: It’s late June so prepare for a big moment
  • York College: First a fence and then a hand across it
  • YDR in York County: Unsung owner saved newspaper
  • East Market parking garage: It has a York story to tell
  • Sears in York County, Pa: How it influenced a community
  • A soldier’s escape: Healing PTSD in nature
  • Highpoint: Big challenges demand bold actions
  • Elmwood Mansion: Witnessing constant change
  • Urban farming: Thriving agriculture in the city
  • Rural Newberry Township: Freedom seeker shot at Underground Railroad station
  • For 25 years, NENA’s grassroots work has strengthened York’s neighborhoods
  • Parkway Homes: Despite hardships, generations of leaders have emerged
  • Bond building: When badly needed, York shone here
  • 95 acres in Dover: Land ethics in play on this farm
  • Bermudian Valley: Seeking peace in the York County’s cloister, Part II
  • The Gazette and Daily: Under siege in the 1960s, York newspaper starts from square one
  • York County’s cloister: Seeking peace in the Bermudian Valley
  • Crispus Attucks Community Center: A ‘character building’ organization
  • A hidden space: The potter’s field in North York
  • Significant York landmarks: Victim to wrecking ball in 1950s-1970s
  • Faith Presbyterian Church: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. urged merger
  • Carlisle Livestock Auction: A farming chapter ends
  • Gettysburg’s Spangler Farm: Field hospital testifies to battle’s human cost
  • Quilting as a symbol of independence
  • Controversial York mayor’s East Princess Street business: Latino advocates now call it home
  • Dover Area School District: ID movement reached high water mark in York County
  • Farming by day, Underground Railroad by night
  • House with the garden wall: Landmark home of this leading woman among York women
  • The Green Book: Struggling to find a place to stay while on family vacation
  • South of Shrewsbury: Berry Underground Railroad house
  • York’s Centre Square Courthouse
  • Firefighters Memorial Garden
  • The Brownstone: Owner built community in York
  • A woman with one arm: How the Wallace sisters successfully ran their grist mill, despite a disability
  • Witnessing York: Introducing new digital site
  • Healing President Lincoln: The curious case of William Henry Johnson

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